~ 'Fugee' by Abi Morgan ~
The first week was rehearsing and performing our Shakespeare monologues. Week 2 We read through the script as a group, and discussed our thoughts on the play. We all agreed that the contemporary, non-naturalistic style was a welcome change from the naturalistic, old language in the Shakespeare and Chekov plays we've done earlier this year. When you first read the script, it is difficult to understand the events of the play, as it opens with the end scene and the events are told in flashbacks, out of order. However, once we had discussed the events of the play, and (using the script as a reference) verbally put the events in chronological order, we all understood the play better. 'Fugee' is a play following Kojo, a 14 year old refugee from Ivory Coast. The play opens with Kojo stabbing a man to death, and the rest of the play is a series of flashbacks that reveal that on Kojo's eleventh birthday his family were killed by child soldiers. Kojo himself becomes a chi...