political theatre idea

we are going to explore the ideas of child soldiers. we have decided to use the stage behind the canteen. Our biggest challenge will to lure the audience from the canteen and other areas and get them to follow us to the stage. We are planning on having a routine displaying the horrors for child soldiers. On our placards I wrote "childe solgers, age 8" this brehctian technique was used to get the audience interested. The misspelling is used to try and communicate to the audience that the children are not very well educated and are having their childhood robbed from them.

To get the attention of the audience we will maybe walk around the school and try to attract audience members through curiosity. The placards might evoke emotion in the audience as they may communicate that children have their childhood robbed from them.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/uganda/10621792/Konys-child-soldiers-When-you-kill-for-the-first-time-you-change.html

This article is an interview of a childsoldier and is very interesting and has helped me understand how traumatising the experience is  for children.