In my groups performance we wanted our audience to think about the feelings of not only the woman but the men when they were separated. To do this we used split scene, switching from one scene to the other then back to the first. We believed that the switch back to the first scene would create an effect which left the audience feeling how the performers were expressing themselves.

Unfortunately we were not able to perform due to time running faster than we thought it would, but in our starting scene we come up with the woman and her family sitting around a dinner table but with no husband , which caused them all feeling depressed and heartbroken due to the obvious reason of it not being the same, additionally they didn’t know weather he was alive or not.

The second second would of switched to the man in the trenches, one man in particular being distressed due to him not being able to be with his family , he would of broke down crying. This action symbolises the effect that war had on men, not only were they torn away from their family’s but their life was at risk.

The last scene would of been the wife performing a soliloquy, expressing how she felt about the whole situation. I thought this effect would of been really powerful because it would of been some sort of literal interaction which we don’t often get during performances. The soliloquy would of been depressing which would of left the audience feeling her pain.

Many men went to war but not all returned so we also wanted to focus on that, the whole idea of men being dragged away from their family and not being able to return, this would have a long long term affect.