Communication of the humanist message

In the end of our performance we all stood up and scattered around the space delivering a eulogy/obituary or summary of our life as if we'd just died. This along with the depressing melody and the effect of all of as reciting our eulogies at once created a pathos for the audience.

I decided to write a poem as if I'd just committed suicide and was reading one at my own funeral.

She was a girl with no roots to the ground,

In a gawky bubble she drifted around,

She was a dreamer, an occasional screamer,

Though she screamed in a way that no one could hear her.

She saw no purpose in this world of mundanity,

Living faintly in her misshapen reality.

She breathed through adventure,

and thrills of high moments,

But her empty lungs conjured up torments.

She knew exactly where she should've been born,

The bright orange jacket she should've worn,

The warrior pact by which she should've sworn,

The villain flesh she should've torn.

But all she could be was a roeless thorn.

Which is why today it is her that we mourn.

This was followed by the ending where we brought flowers and items with sentimental value to the table and named their prices to end on  "love costs nothing"

I think that we were successful in some ways in delivering a humanist message from our use of Brechtian exaggeration and satirical skits of heavy topics. Our goal was to communicate this message to the audience which I think we did as our play enforced an marketed socialism in the slaps of our Dragon's Den and Britain's got Talent remakes because of the victims we strongly identified. Our use of the chorus of capitalist snobs turning into filthy public school kids or groups of women throwing money around was really effective. Adding these touches of a musical  reminded the audience they were watching a play like spontaneous singing in mundane situations does and drew more attention to the message rather than the naturalism of the scenes. Although these chorus parts could have been made more efficient and slick if they were rehearsed the same way at least in the end of the rehearsal process because some of it got lost. The game show was supposed to be a direct and simple dig at the audience to get the message by placing them as plebs and  bosses which was a very clear and challenging idea in theory. But as we didn't have extensive seating it might have not been as effective.