The Year 5 Productions theme was Hanging At The Bottom of the World. It was about Australia’s history, and the timeline of Australia, from its first discovery to how it was federated. I had 3 characters to play, I was a Bridesmaid, a Convict and a Fortune Seeker.
In the final scenes of the play, the scene was about a cricket match, which would “determine whether Australia would federate into one great nation or stay 6 seperate colonies” announced Eddy (Max D). In this scene Henry Parks died before federation, and that’s what actually happened. He died before federation.
My favourite character that I played was my Fortune Seeker, the costume was a colourful shirt (it was too small), a small grey cap and a gold licence (a piece of laminated paper).
My highlight was when the queen dies and the Sweepers tried to drag her (it was actually a guy but anyway) and every time they picked her up they dropped her because she was too heavy. And one of the sweepers picked up the crown when it fell off and wore it for the rest of the play.
Positive Learner Attributes (PLA’s) that I showed were, Courage because performing in front of a crowd was a really big and new thing, and it took lots of courage to preform especially if you had a role that came up more often.
It also took Resilience because when we were told that we weren’t in character and when we got something wrong when we were preforming we didn’t stop and cry for failing, we just kept on going or repeated the sentence.
And Knowledge to find out how to play our character to the best of our ability, including an accent, hand movements and body gestures.
During the time I was back stage I had a character that was almost back to back with my other character I almost to late, but I just got my final button on as we were leaving.
Hey Will,
Great work – you had a fantastic role in the play and pulled it off well. A hilarious part of the play! Great to hear your understanding of the history, and the attributes you needed to display throughout.
Well done,
Mr B