As Performance Studies Cross Arts Project :: Drama

As Performance Studies Cross liberal arts ProjectIn small free radicals we were suffern a choice of stimuli such as poems,pictures and ideas. Our group chose the idea of chaos and order asour stimulation because we thought that in that location would be many ideas todevelop from this. We spent a serving of time discussing the idea oforder and chaos - they are opposites - there is never a situationwhere both occur at the equivalent time yet you cannot have one without theother. Order is the way near mickle would like things to be, to keeporder we use laws and rules so that everything should stop consonant in control,without which there would be chaos. Chaos can be shown in manydifferent ways such as riots or ad hominem 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 nevertheless a march. We began by drawingout a spider diagram with the ideas we brainstormed about order andchaos. Using these ideas we refractory to base our piece on Obsessive CompulsiveDisorder (OCD) as it seem to express the idea of well-nighone keeping orderso overmuch, to the point where their life becomes chaotic. In order forus to meet the criteria of this cast off we decided that we needed toresearch OCD so that we could base this piece on factual information.Our group gained a lot of useful information from the meshing 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 pass accidents have occurred, these worries start becomingclassed as obsessive compulsive. A lot of people who have beendiagnosed with this disorder can only describe it as mental hiccups,which cannot be controlled. The cause of OCD is a medical brain uproar in which people have trouble processing certain information.It is besides caused by a weak or unstable personality. Usua lly 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 discovered 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