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Initially, our task was to create a performance based on either the play ’Poppy’ or the true story of the ‘Match Girls’. Ultimately, we decided to base our performance using the stimulus of the Match girls and the theme of men overruling women. We chose this because our initial response to the match girls was allot more positive compared to the other stimulus, Poppy. To accomplish this we sat as a group and discussed different types of discrimination and sexism and agreed on the four choices of Slave labor, Equal Rights, Minimum wage and abuse because they all fall under the theme of men overruling women. Our original intention was to make the performance rhyme, to engage the audience more. But we felt it wouldn’t have been as serious as we where aiming our performance to be.

For the opening of our piece we decided to recreate the original stimulus picture of the ‘Match Girls’. We also incorporated many names of the people that where involved in the ‘Match girls’. Also we added lots of facts and information that was relevant in the time period of the ‘Match Girls’. After the first scene of us recreating the picture of the match girls the atmosphere and intensity of our performance quickly moves into a rushed a serious tone as the other members of my group rush around and state a fact about how it was working in the factories. Following after this, my character Mr. May quickly interrupts the girls conversation with a bellowing shout. This is to build tention and keep the audience on the edge of their seats.

Scene 3 starts with the other members of my group minimalisticly lighting matches with me, Mr. May stealthily lurking around in the background. He interrupts again foreshadowing next events. But instead of the workers following his instructions they rebel and announce that their quitting their jobs and storm out. We did this too add a twist to build extra tension and shock the audience. Before the...