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English Stimulus. 

What is English?

To begin with me brought in little props that made us think of England. Some people brought in: newspapers, pictures of buses, English poems, English money, pictures of fish and chips, crowns etc. I brought in one of my Harry Potter wands. Because to me, personally, nothing shouts English more than the Harry Potter series. (Also possibly because Harry Potter is my favourite thing.) In the end we all agreed that we would like to create a piece of drama from 'Alice in Wonderland' as it was extremely English and has lots of potential for Artaud.

In the next lesson, we were told to bring in some picture stimuli surrounding our chosen piece 'Alice in Wonderland' however our teacher wanted us to put an Artaud twist on it. So this was the picture I had. 

This picture became the whole basis to my small solo piece between the main piece. There were images of bloody wrists and white roses running through my head and I expressed these to my teacher who loved them. 

Other picture stimuli below gave us inspiration for lighting, scenes and costume ideas.