Unicorn Theatre - 2007 Drama, Film and Photography project
Yr8 students took part in a project with The Unicorn Theatre. They worked with various specialists to produce work based around the play Looking for JJ, a theatre adaptation of a popular novel by Anne Cassidy. In the play, a young adult is released from a young offenders institute and is given a new identity, having committed a crime which is one of our society's biggest taboos; as a child she killed another child. Through the story of Jennifer Jones and her new identity as Alice Tully, the play explores the relationship between the neglected child who longs for stability, the child murderer and the young woman who works in a café and is planning to go to university.The theatre and education project allowed students to explore the moral issues at the heart of the story. Through the medium of drama, photography and filmmaking the students then engaged and explored the life of Jennifer/Alice by looking at identity and alter-egos. The students had their portraits taken showing their own alter egos and also made a film. The work was on show at The Unicorn Theatre, Tooley Street, London Bridge.
I am lonely I am sad For that I feel so bad. I wake up in the morning thinking of my mum; Modelling, dancing, photographs have been done. I remember the day I was born, to the day my life was torn. "Murderer, murderer" on the newspaper, Big bold, black splashed around the corner How I wished I took what I did back. I am lonely I am sad For that I feel so bad. Sima, Maliha, yr8 |
JJ you are really bad
You hit a girl with a baseball bat You went to jail and now you're back With a baby little rap You think you're sad But you're really mad Your mum's a model But you just need a cuddle. Shahin, Zakir, Baktiar and Rayhan of yr8 |
Isolated, lonely, left alone,
No-one, but a shadow shown. Leaving the past, moving on with life. Using a baseball bat instead of a knife. Killed a friend, buried alive Brought her nothing but strife. Farhana, Yasmin, Marjana, Opi and Thahera of yr8 |