As Performance Studies Cross Arts Project :: Drama

As Performance Studies Cross Arts ProjectIn small groups we were given a choice of stimuli such as poems,pictures and ideas. Our group chose the idea of chaos and order asour stimulus because we thought that there would be many ideas todevelop from this. We played out a lot of time discussing the idea oforder and chaos - they are opposites - there is never a situationwhere both occur at the identical time yet you cannot have one without theother. Order is the way most populate would like things to be, to keeporder we use laws and rules so that everything should stay in control,without which there would be chaos. Chaos can be shown in manydifferent ways such as riots or personal chaos e.g. a mentalbreakdown. There is no order in this kind of situation, if there wereto be it would no longer be a riot but a march. We began by drawingout a spider diagram with the ideas we brainstormed about order andchaos. Using these ideas we decided to base our piece on obsessional CompulsiveDisorder (OCD) as it seem to express the idea of mortal keeping orderso much, to the point where their life becomes chaotic. In order forus to meet the criteria of this project we decided that we needed toresearch OCD so that we could base this piece on factual learning.Our group gained a lot of useful information from the Internet andbooks. Fears, worries suspicions and beliefs come into everyday lifebut when these doubts start to emerge much more excessively e.g.spending hours washing clean hands or driving round and round makingsure no road accidents have occurred, these worries start becomingclassed as obsessive compulsive. A lot of flock who have beendiagnosed with this disorder can only describe it as mental hiccups,which cannot be controlled. The cause of OCD is a medical brainturmoil in which people have trouble processing real information.It is also caused by a weak or unstable personality. Usually peoplewith OCD will suffer with certain obsessions as well as compulsions,but in some cases they may only suffer with one or the other. One ofour group members new someone who suffered with this disorder quitebadly. They had observed this person from the beginning before beingdiagnosed with OCD. As a group we decided that we could use thisperson as a basis for our piece. This meant that we had some firsthand information on the disorder so we could give our piece some