Workshop 3: Interrogations

Workshop 3: Running workshop 4 myself I decided to look at Detective's interrogations for the conflict or wrong and right and our punishment system. We quickly created characters:

• Lucy Campbell, a girl aged 17, on her way home from her sister's after a visit whilst at university, mysteriously goes missing,
• Her sister Sarah Campbell, 23 years old never had a very good relationship with her sister and has just given birth to her first child Ava,
• Sarah's husband Daryn who often helps Lucy with her university dissertations and gives her lift from university to home.

When we had created these characters, we set up a scene around a table and asked appropriate questions such as "when did you last see your sister" to try and prompt improvised responses. Although we enjoyed running this scene it was boring to watch as an audience and it helped us to understand the importance of staging to involve and interest the audience more. Furthermore it helped us to understand the importance of understanding a case and researching appropriate articles/books etc. to build our knowledge to make it more gripping and interesting.