first piece of homework!

It's Friday November the 9th and I have received my first piece of Theatre homework for term two! 

Here's a few questions I have been asked...

1. What is my first response to reading the play? Do I like it? I need to discuss my response to the characters and the plot.
2. What are the themes of the text?
3. What am I most looking forward to during this project?
4. What do I think the challenges will be of this project?

And my answers are...

1. My first response to the play is that I think it's very cleverly written, especially as it is within our age group and it actually is people our age playing the characters it makes it a lot easier to adapt to. The plot is very interesting and the way it is written does make you consider "yes, it actually is how teenagers these days talk?!" so it can look very difficult to read and speak if doing it for the first time. The plot is very unexpected in certain parts of the play; for an example-you wouldn't expect somebody that's meant to be dead to end up living alive in a bush, living off live organisms! When it comes to the characters, every individual is very different and its easy to understand what type of person they are within the first few lines, so it's quite big for introduction! I think that after reading it through once I do like the play and I will look forward to the next few weeks of exploring and rehearsing it further!
2. From reading the text once, I would say the themes are various different things considering every aspect of the play. At some points bullying is very obvious, there's also cruelty when we consider Adam's part in the story, there's self and group identity as well, where they would talk about "them" in school and how Adam was trying to be one of their group. Though the core theme I would say is responsibility because they had a lot considering what they were carrying about a death and having to cover it up-the responsibility of not telling anyone.
3. What I'm most looking forward to during this project will most likely have to be the script reading part. I'm so used to improvising and doing things myself or in a group I rarely get the opportunity to work from somebody else's point of view. I think I am fairly good at sight reading so I should find it quite simple though I would like to get to know my character, be able to explore him/her in depth, adapt to what they already are as well as gradually make them my own!
4. The challenges of this project will probably be the fact that I will be sharing a character with a few people so I will have to adapt to their versions as well as explain my ideas to them.