My group for the assessment decided that the main focus of the performance was the relationship between Lucas and his family as the whole stimulus was him growing up and his relationships with his family changing and we decided to show him at his and his family’s most difficult part which we believe would be before he found his success and with his father gone however we decided not to say why he is gone as we did not find it necessary.

my jobs in the group as well as acting were character design and sound I used character development by making up the reactions that different people would have to a certain situation such as the drinking and drugs abuse that Lucas had at a young age and i did this to show the different characters.

We decided to create the character of  Lucas’s younger brother as an opposite of Lucas as he would have been to young to understand the negative impact on the family the father leaving and the drinking and drugs abuse had on the family and this is shown through his positive attitude compared to Lucas and his mother also he is cynical of Lucas’s  dream as he has not  been down in life so he does not need a dream to redeem himself unlike Lucas and he is also influenced by his mother who believes that Lucas’s dream will lead him down the path of his father.

For Lucas’s mother i made her very similar to Lucas in the way that she has not taken the events that have happened well and like Lucas she feels guilty and depressed over them however there is a difference between them as his mother sees Lucas’s dreams and frowns upon them believing he should  focus on a more realistic dream and that she sees to much of his father in him and his dream and does not want Lucas heading on the same path that he did.

For Lucas himself we decided that in this stage of his life he would be starting to work on his songs and we would show this in the performance by showing that he would rather work on his songs than eat he is also ashamed of what he has become and is trying to become a better man to lift himself up from his past.

For sound i decided that there should be a naturalistic sound and the confrontation between Lucas and his family should be silent so the words and phrases are clearly heard by the audience.

The overall message of this performance was to show what Lucas emerged from rather than what he has become as we already know this and by showing the hardship he went through and the emotional effect this had on him. Overall we wanted to explore what made him want to make songs in the first place despite what his family thought of him.