Theatre Company came to our school to perform their production of
Too Much Punch for Judy by Mark Wheeller to all of year 10.
Evaluative Phase
'Too Much Punch for Judy'
On 20th September 2003, 'Ape Theatre Company' came to our school to
perform their production of 'Too Much Punch for Judy' by Mark Wheeller
to all of year 10. 'Ape' are a Theatre in Education (TiE) Company and
therefore are responsible for touring schools with performances that
are aimed at informing or warning students and young people of dangers
that may face them in life. We were told that this is a documentary
drama, which means that real life events were used as the stimulus and
in this case, the monologues were actual accounts from the people
involved in the event.
As a touring company, 'Ape' must be aware that they will be performing
in many different spaces, therefore it is important that the set is
minimalistic and can be set up and adapted to small and large halls.
This particular production is to warn students of the effects of drink
driving and particularly to be aware of accepting lifts in cars with
people who have been drinking. We are not old enough to drive, but we
may have older friends who are, or even family members who have a "few
too many", then drive.
This performance was in our school hall and although we have a
proscenium arch stage, they performed on the floor, and in fact some
audience members were seated up on the stage with I though was unique
idea, as they had to look down on the play. They used a thrust staging
idea with the audience on 3 sides of the performance space and had
projection screen set up on one of the walls. I though that the space
was used effectively considering that there was more than 200 of us
watching and we are used to sitting all facing in one direction for
plays and assemblies - this was good because we almost surrounded the
performance space and I felt closer to the action.
The actors were waiting in each corner of the aisles that had been set
up and sat on chairs as we entered the performance space. Loud house
music played as we came in and everyone was chatty and in quite good
spirits. We didn't know what to expect, but some people thought it
would be a boring play because they don't take drama, but I was very
excited to see what it would be about. Miss Frith had told us that she
saw this play when she was at school and that she still remembered
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