1. Evaluation form research project
What you wanted to investigate
What you planned to do
What you did
What you found out
Conclusions from this
What else could you do to research further

2. What you wanted to investigate…
I wanted to investigate how cross gender could be used in Lysistrata.
My aim is to explore and develop characterisation in cross gender roles.

3. What you planned to do…
I planed 7 workshops and out of them I picked 3 workshops to deliver and gather information from and to complete my research further

4. What I did…

5. Lesson plan 1: Date: 4th March 2015
Learning objective: To re-Intro into the play and ideas into my concept and to gain more trust in each other
Starter activity:
Trusting exercise/Activity- In pairs, go back to back and try and stand up with our putting your hands on the floor. First one linking arms. Second one arm our in front of you.
Main activity
Team building activity- magic shoes These magic shoes have some special properties: they can only be worn once in one direction by each team member, they may not be thrown.
Watch this video of other people doing the activity (
End activity-Discussion
3 Key questions:
From watching the video what do you think of how they did the activity?
How important was communications?
Were all ideas listening to? Why or why not?

6. What lesson 1 was about…
Lesson 1 was about everyone being able to trust one another and get them to work as a team, to listen to any ideas that are given.

7. Feedback given
Feedback from questions 3:
Rosh: I listened to everyone and gave no ideas just went with the others ideas
Ryan: I listened to all ideas and suggested the idea of 1 person goes across with someone on their back then that person comes back and so on
Zac: listened to everyone and gave the idea of
Daniel: listened and tied out ideas that were given
Paris: I listened well but people didn't listen to my idea of 1 person carrying 3 people and then one person goes back with some on there back and so on
Mrs Henry: All ideas were listen to and tried out From this I wanted to make sure that everyone knows how important it is to communicate/trust and work as a team as my concept is all about cross gender and if they don't trust each other enough to play the other gender then my concept wouldn't work. 
 Feedback from questions 1:
Rosh:T hey got it faster than us
Ryan: Trust in each other made it easier
Zac: Team work was creative not normal
Daniel: was another way of how we could have done the activity
Paris: They got it quicker than us
Mrs Henry: Video was a good way of showing other options off carrying people across
Feedback from questions 2:
Rosh: Very important
Ryan: key to successful in the activity
Zac: Very vital, first steps to teamwork
Daniel: if we didn't communicate we wouldn't be successful
Paris: Important without it nothing is done and wouldn't get the activity done
Mrs Henry: If we didn't the activity wouldn't have worked
Concussion from this workshop is that they need to trust each other more and listen to one another as everyone has there own opinions and suggests for others to think about

8. Lesson plan 2: Date: 16 nd March 2015
Learning objective: To develop characterisation in cross gender though Voice
Starter activity:
Mouse trap/midfield-players in Pairs one blindfolded, objects/chairs scattered around and the other has to guide them only using their voice to the other side with out stepping or going into the objects and chairs.
Main activity:
Research into American high school teens of how they act, talk and dress and Characterisation of voice- Master, Master who am I one person is gonna be blindfolded and the rest are gonna shout out master, master who am I/phrase from there characters and the person blindfolded has to guess who it is and what character they are.
End activity- Discussion
key questions:
Has this helped you with getting into the characters given? Why?

9. What lesson 2 is about…
Lesson 2 was about focusing on voice, as I wanted them to be comfortable with play a cross gender role, as when I introduced my concept they were not to keen on playing a cross gender role.

10. Feedback I first got them to do still images of characters they were:
Paris: Unfriendly black
Rosh: Jock
Daniel: Plastic (girls who think they know it all and own everything)
Ryan: Cheerleader

11. Feedback
I then gave them 2 characters each to play boy and girl to say something in there character I had:
Rosh was blindfolded
Paris: gamer (boy)- hipster (girl)
Daniel: jock (boy)- girls who don't eat (girl)
Ryan: marching band (boy)- cheerleader (girl)
Mrs Henry: Unfriendly black (boy)- the plastics (girl)
Questions
Rosh- As I was blindfolded I had to think character that could have been given to me and how they would talk.
Paris- It helped me get into character because when playing a cross gender role with costume the most important thing to focus on is voice.
Daniel- It helped me focuses on how the character would act even though we were not acting
Ryan- It has helped me to be more confident with playing a girl
Mrs Henry- This Was a good exercise to get us thinking of the way the characters act and talk so we can get into the character ourselves.
In concussion to this I feel this workshop wasn’t such a success as no one was taking it seriously, and couldn’t disguise there voices as well as I thought although it did help them to gain a bit of confidence in playing a different gender.

12. Lesson plan 3 Date: 26th March 2015
Learning objective: To develop characterisation in cross gender though Movement
Starter activity:
YouTube video-
 Warm up-bartender
Main Activity:
focusing on the chorus argument having the cheerleaders (boys play) and jocks (girls play) with 2 actions and phrases. The argument is about space in the playground and how they have taken each others spaces.(Chosen section of the a script to act out twice. One with dialog naturalistic and one with just movement not naturalistic both in slow motion and just normal speed and then swap roles around)
Movement sequence with both like a dance battle
Find a space in the room,  I will call out number of instructions for you and you will have to be that character and do a mini improvisation of what they would be doing, considering you characters reactions at different points.
Questions:
How would you take on board the character of Lysistrata?
How would you approach a male character/figure in the play?

13. Characters…
Jocks
Cheerleaders
Marching band boy
Plastic

14. Feedback
Questions:
Daniel: How would you take on board the character of Lysistrata? Easy approach only difficulty is the cross gender
Paris: How would you approach a male character/figure in the play? Focus on physicality, on voice and movement.
In concussion to this I feel this workshop was better then my other as I got them to produce a scene in their given characters which gave them more confidence in playing cross gender roles.

15. What you found out…
What I found out was that cross gender needs a lot of practice and patient, and with people who joke around and laugh at everything its hard to be in character with other students who may be judging you.

16. Conclusions from this…
In conclusions from all 3 workshop, was successful in some areas but unsuccessful in others as I feel that I needed to focuses more on movement and combined the play and my concept better
Next time I could maybe joint voice and movement and get tem to create a scene from the play using the characters given.

17. What else could you do to research further…
I can expand on what I have for example get them to into characters, and combined the play and my concept better to give me a better result into what I am investigating