Twelve Angry Men

Twelve Angry Men

12 angry men is a production about a murder trial. A boy that could be

looked on as guilty from the word go, is put up to the jury to decide

his fait. The boy has a background of violence and crime and has been

brought up in a slum. The jury is almost certain of the boys guilt.

Every member of the jury votes guilty but ONE and so the jury is

forced to sit it out and make a decision.

We started off the production by choosing who the director would be.

In the director we looked for someone that was a good actor himself so

that he could speak from personal experience. Also we wanted someone

that people could respect and would give thought to his ideas. The

people we chose to be or directors were Craig and Bill we chose Craig

because of his talent as an actor. Craig has been a good director so

far, we decided that Craig would be the director for act I. act I is

full of key scenes that need to be presented to the audience in a

understanding way. Bill was also chosen for the director of act II,

bill was chosen because of his potential. I think because in the class

work we have done he has shown really good initiative. For example in

a piece of improvisation work he had the idea that if they turned all

the lights off their words would have more of an impact and it did it

worked like charm. He also has a good imagination I could see this

when he was telling me what he would do as director.

We decided to choose the directors by secrete ballot.

Once the directors had been chosen it was audition time. We decided to

let people audition for as many parts as they wanted so that they

could be flexible.

We firstly decided who the foreman was going to be played by, what

were we looking for hen we were auditioning, well the foreman I think