A War Devised Theatre Assessment: A thin line between love and hate

For the past few weeks my group and I have been devising a piece of theatre around the subject of war. Our original piece was about the effects of war on a small Yorkshire community. It involved a local woman falling in love with the enemy, a German spy. It illustrated the betrayal between friends, emotions and how current affairs can induce decisions. This was influenced by a number of aspects. In exploring a number …

…the fruit and vegetables made us think of a shop. Being shown different styles of theatre also significantly helped, as we were able to incorporate them to suite our play. Performing other plays with similar themes gave us all ideas, which we could later build on as well; also seeing Blackadder made me think of other programs set in the war, one being the comedy series open all hours which was centered around a shop.