...have been able to undertake roles in the setting up and running of a community arts project

We planned and undertook many a roles helping and being in a arts project involving the community.

An example of this is when I performed at the beginning of Dr Faustus with Sophie and Saxona.

We began with a meeting to discuss what to do for the introduction, ideas arose such as symbolic approaches with no dialogue, a strictly educational talk then we sparked the idea of making a short introduction with a comedic act.

We designed a set of script examples (linked on Sazona's blog) which gave each of us an equal amount of dialogue.

One main contributed I supplied through marketing was in creation of the poster to promote/inform potential audiences of the showing.

The process was tough as to keep legal I had to avoid taking images off the web which were copyrighted, so I took pictures of a dragons head and a pair of shoes to use for the poster.

We arranged a meeting at the start of May to discuss our production roles and influence of The Wiz, mine being the poster.

Below are the initial designs, with feedback given from the members of the group, why were were or were not effective:

 This design would cost far too much to produce, through red printer ink

 This design didn't reflect the colourfulness of the Wiz in all its glory

 Although it fitted the colour sheme the balance didn't see jusr right

This was the final poster design taken from the third example

Our participation evaluation is below:

We wanted to tell the story of Dr Faustus to help the audience initially understand the brief plot before the shakespearian version runs, the comedic aspect was added as a relief for audiences and to create a bigger impact when the darker main performance started, this I am sure was effective and successful.

''Sophie, Saxona and I had the task of devising a introduction entertainment segment before the Dr Faustus show. This however wasn't too challenging as we were well familiar with the happening and types of entertainment around the time Dr Faustus would have originally been performed.

Sophie and Saxona took it upon themselves to create a structure of the act, with a small introduction lead by myself followed by a comedic element; telling the story of Dr Faustus through costume changes and dialogue led by myself.

The opening was classic, a welcome ladies and gentlemen, but with a twist. You see we wanted to open the act as if it was the 1600s. Sophie and Saxona were dressed as men so we could address and educate the audience a little whilst also entertaining them that women were forbidden to perform/be on stage in that era. They also wrote the script to include the mentions of bear baiting a common opening act before, during and/or afterwards a performance in classical times.

My segment included quick changes and devising small scenes to portray the story that the girls were reading. An example is 'There once was a man named Dr Faustus' and I would proceed to dress in a jacket and stumble onto stage as a Dr Faustus were I said 'Dr Faustus', introducing the audience into the happenings of the next few minutes, I was going to act out the story! A few quick changes later I had to portray the 7 deadly sins:

1. Lust
2. Gluttony
3. Greed
4. Sloth
5. Wrath
6. Envy
7. Pride

I did this by visually and vocally presenting these sings as a situation, for example Gluttony I ate a cake, Wrath I became angry that an audience member wouldn't give me his coat.

I wanted this to mainly be improvised as it would add to the comedic aspects of the act, although I did have a brief idea of movement and dialogue beforehand as a guideline to stick by.

Eventually ending with a character from the Dr Faustus cast running onto the stage and shouting at us to get off.

Overall our intentions of the act was more successful than we hoped, we managed to obtain many a laughter and we were all convinced that the audience learnt something or another from what we were trying to say or at the very least understood the brief story of Dr Faustus.''