Imperial+Stoners

The Social Repercussions of Smoking Marijuana By Jack Bourchier, Robbie Manchester and Sebastian Hanscomb

The stimulus materials for our CLP piece are the numerous stories of young people being caught in possession of Marijuana, and being sanctioned. The quick involvement of parents in the situation also quickly leads to a serious problem.

We chose this topic because it shows the repercussions of taking this risk and why people do it, and the side effects of doing Marijuana and peer pressure is what we were are really focusing on. Ours stems off of other stories of youth caught in possession of illegal substances or substances that are not legal to them at their age, etc.

The message we would like to get to the audience is; not to push yourself into situations that are out of your league. We would like the audience to understand or at least get a better view of how drugs can destroy lives in terms of health and relationships.

We will utilize music in our play by basing it around the level of trouble that the child gets into, with the law or with their parents. For example, we will have Bob Marley for the child who doesn’t get into much trouble, and the music gets more erratic from there, e.g. Bring Me the Horizon, Greenday, etc.

Our group will be including ICT into our performance by the use of blogs and wikis to keep our potential audience up to date.

Having only 3 group members and 10 characters in our story, two members of our group will be playing three characters each while the third member of the group will be playing a fourth part in the play. The costume change will be achieved through a change in cap or the wearing of a jacket. Music will be achieved through a CD player at the front of the stage with a specially ordered CD with tracks that correspond with moments in the play. This means that our groups’ only need for props are: a CD player, a variety of small clothing items for costumes and a variety of dried up grass to play the part of the drugs in the play.

Our performance is related to risk taking because the play shows how if one group member starts using drugs, the others will follow because they want to fit in. This means that their decision making has declined and they are now unable to see how the consequences of their actions can and will affect them.