The Seven Ages of Man

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My practical work was devised by the stimulus of `The Seven Ages of

Man' I had to consider a specific age and work within two age groups.

My practical work was devised by the stimulus of `The Seven Ages of

Man' I had to consider a specific age and work within two age groups.

One of these was my own age phase, the other a mixed age. I developed

my work from previous work based on energy states.

My contribution to the performance was to play the character of a

twenty something year old. I implemented my understanding of the role

by method acting. Through characterisation exercises, an example of

which was hot seating, is a method of taking on the character, working

in-groups and answering questions in role, which were posed to me.

This helped me to feel like the character. Other exercises we did

included role on the wall which is where you write down the outside

and inside views and feelings of your character.

To help me in my work I researched and read Shakespeare's `Seven Ages

of Man'. I also read a profile of characteristics called the

generation game and we looked at a poem called `bags I' by Alan

Allberg. I found this additional support material from poem books and

newspaper articles.

The most useful text material I looked at was `Bags I' because it made

me aware of how people move through the different stages of their

lives in a modern day society. I adapted these ideas by taking them

into my play as it was also set in modern times (2002) this also

helped to portray the characters as we also explored stereotypical age

groups.

Our piece was set in modern day 2002. However the initial stimulus of

`The Seven Ages of Man' was set in the Elizabethan period in

Shakespearean times. The newspaper article `the generation game' was

similar to our production because it was profiles of different ages of

people in modern day. The biggest differences were the period that the

`Seven Ages of Man' was written in and the period of the other texts

studied. You could tell that life was very different in the

Elizabethan period, because men used to grow up to be soldiers and

women used to stay at home. The stimulus work made us consider what

traits were relevant to us today.

Emily Webb 10BS

The people in our performance are two 6 year old children, a typical

teenager, a posh 20 something student and a 20 something homeless

person. In contrast those outlined in our play were different to those

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