Research- War Time Songs and Sweets eaten during the war- Laura Cooke

Sweets eaten during the war:

After researching what penny sweets children would eat during the war, liquorice appears the most popular.  Gobstoppers and ‘bulls-eyes’ also seemed a great buy for the children, using their pocket money.  For our piece, we are thinking about including the sweet shop located near Steep Hill, as we can take our audience into the shop and buy the liquorice. This will then hopefully keep the audiences attention, and is also a type of audience interaction we could use in our piece.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/0/ww1/25415720

 

War Time Songs:

Researching war time songs, ‘We’ll Meet Again’, seems a popular song from the time.  Other war time songs include: ‘The White Cliffs of Dover’, ‘Run Rabbit Run’ ‘Don’t Sit under the Apple Tree’ and more. I feel that we could use sections from these songs in our performance, when moving on to the next scene perhaps. I feel that if we use songs that were played during the war, it will make the audience feel part of the performance and it could also create further imagery in their minds about the time period.

http://www.classicsonline.com/catalogue/product.aspx?pid=836389

Our Drift to the Museum of Lincolnshire Life- Laura Cooke

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Our Drift to the ‘Museum of Lincolnshire Life’ was interesting and enjoyable. The particular topic which caught our attention was the treatment of Women during the Victorian Era and the war. From the photos, you can see there is one of the classroom, which as we can see, It was small and basic. Women teachers would have set rules in which they had to obey, one in which being that ‘they could not marry during the terms of their contract’ which is very strict and is something that doesn’t happen now, it sounds quite odd to hear. I wonder how women would react today, if these rules came back. The museum had many points of interest, such as letters, nursery rhymes that would be sung and games that were played. Maybe we could incorporate some of these aspects into our performance.
Overall it was a great experience. We are all very much looking forward to creating our piece as a group and can’t wait to get started.