Drama Corse Work- Bedlum

Drama coursework

First of all we read an extract on bedlam, it was written by Ned Ward in 1701 the extract was written by a visitor to bedlam, in this he describes different characters which were in the hospital this extract was written in a diary type style so is therefore from his point of view. He describes different actions, movements and speech of several characters. The class gave these characters different names: prince of the air, high treason guy, the witch, conscience guy, bread and cheese man. He is often sympathetic towards the people inside the hospital using phrases like "my friend". Ned feels that bedlam is a place for the scum of human society and the people inside bedlam should not be exposed to the outside world, he shows that it is a place for the world to be ashamed. Ned makes bedlam sound like a horrible and despicable place to be in and sounds more like a prison for the scum of society than a hospital as people are probably worse off being inside.

We were set a task, we were told that we must choose a character, and then come up with an action and then further add speech. We then got into groups with people whom were the same character as each other, this was in order too discus suitable character. I choose the character Prince of the air. I made this choice because choose the character Prince of the air. I made this choice because I felt I could understand this character fairly well; also there was more than one action that I could associate with this particular as conscience guy had only one action (the stomping of the feet) however there were many action that I could have chosen:

I choose the sentence "I am the prince of the air, bow before me now" I felt that this was a perfect sentence which reflects his character perfectly. We were then told to act out our characters for a whole double lesson. In this time we first started off asleep and then