Ten people, 6 girls, 4 boys. All of which, having no actual idea where to even begin when it comes to making a show, but I’m pretty sure we will get through it somehow! First thing is first we needed to discuss what kind of theatre it is we want to make, and then how on earth we are going to do it. After talking as a group it came apparent quite quickly that we had a similar idea, that idea being ‘addressing the little person’s story’. In a time when society is dominated by people like Donald Trump, and the way that others are treated because of him, it made myself and my group think… what happens to them people, the little people, the individual. Ok so our performance will definitely not be on Donald Trump that was just an example. He gets enough attention. Anyway, getting back to the subject… as a large group we decided that to tell one person’s story may be a waste when we have so many actors. This led us into the decision that we would tell a collection of story’s all coming from the individual’s perspective to tell a story of some sort, I’m sure we will figure that part out later.
So now we have a group, we have an idea (ish) and now we need to figure out what we are going to call ourselves. Never in my life did I think it would take so long, given that we wanted to tell stories of ‘the little people’ we wanted our group name to reflect our performance and any future shows we make… after all there’s plenty of people, plenty of stories, plenty of shows dare I say.
We found literally hundreds of names that suited our company however they rather didn’t have a ‘good ring’ to them, or had already been taken by some other theatre company. But don’t worry, we got there in the end!
(D’Arcy, H. 2017)
(DRUM ROLL)
We are called…
Fragment Theatre Company
“Fragment: small part broken off or separated from something” (Dictionary.com, 2017)
Which is a perfect name for the performance we are aiming to create!
Citations
D’Arcy. H. (2017) what can we call ourselves?: Lincoln Performing Arts Centre: studio x
Dictionary.com. (2017). the definition of fragment. [online] Available at: http://www.dictionary.com/browse/fragment [Accessed 24 Jan. 2017].
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