Developing Real Voices Real Lives

Thursday 19th January 2012

Blog Category: Acting Company Blog

Hello Zara here, Acting Company have been working mostly on Real Voices, Real Lives it's about disability hate crime and we've developed scenes. So in one scene there's a perpetrator and a victim who go shopping together and the perpetrator who makes the victim pay all the time. There's another where we sing the song Wheels on the Bus but we put other words in that get used about people who have a learning disability.

We did research on the computer looking at real things that did happen, like we found a story about girl who was attacked and covered in shaving foam and left to die. It's been upsetting at some points but it's good that we're doing it.

We've got a group from a college in Taunton, that's down South, and they're coming to watch us in February. We will also be showing them the witches scene. It's 1644 and we are the witches from Macbeth, because back then, if you were disabled people thought you were a witch and you got drowned.

I'm looking forward to performing it for the students - I think there'll be 19 of them. We'll be asking them to watch us and then tell us what they thought of it. I hope it goes well, and I'll blog about it once it's done.

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