24th May 2011 - The target audience and the intention of our piece

24th May 2011 - The target audience and the intention of our piece

The target audience for our Anorexia piece called ‘The Skeleton in my Closet’ is year 8’s at Brigshaw High School, preferably a drama class. We decided on this age range because we thought that our piece uses quite complicated range of language and we didn’t think that it would be suitable to perform to primary school students simply because they wouldn’t understand the script. Therefore we have chosen year 8’s at high school. We thought that year 7’s are still young and are the ‘babies’ of the school and they don’t really think about things like this. In year 9, you have already split into the different ‘clicks’ and are already your own person. Year 8 is the change into this and this is a year with terrible peer pressure and struggles with body image. This is why we thought it is perfect to perform to this age group.

The reason we are performing this anorexia piece is because we believe that anorexia is quite a common social issue within England. Also for me, anorexia is quite close to my heart as my Nana has had anorexia since she was very young and mostly lives off of one banana a week.

Our group decided to have a look on some real life blogs, which people have posted online to try and create a script from there. We wanted our performance to be as accurate and as close to peoples heart as possible. We chose a blog in which an anonymous blogger posted a story what happened to her and decided to use some of her dialogue and her storyline to create our own piece.