Lesson 10/11/17

Today we began exploring the play Torn by creating short performances summarising the key themes and how we feel about the play.
Most groups focused on the family ignoring Angel and the control that Steve had over her in a creepy minimalist way.
We then had a discussion in the class about race and instances where people have presumed we were a different race and some interesting stories were brought up. This is because we were looking into the family tree from the play and the different races of the characters since it is such a huge topic of the play.

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