Description of task: Our teacher showed us a picture we had in our handouts. It was the picture of a woman holding a sign that said “Stop the seal slaughter.” She is very well dressed, carrying a purse. She seems like a high class woman, her appearance is very neat. There is also some bushes behind. The sign that says “Stop seal slaughter” has a “peta” sign at the bottom. It seems like a sign protesters would use to stand outside the office of a company that profits our of seal slaughter.
What Steve told us to do is to try to guess where she was coming from and why she was doing what she was doing, holding the sign. We started brainstorming, perhaps she was walking by, coming from work and she had been asked to hold the sign so that they could take a picture of her. Or she was looking for a family member and she was holding the sign so that she could make it into the crowd. A lot of ideas were given, we did not think she was part of the protesting crowd given that she was dressing very nicely, probably not a good outfit to spend the whole day standing up with a sign on her hand. She was probably coming for work, probably she is a woman who works regularly during the weekend and has a family.
Reflection: This is exactly what you need to think about when doing before times. In this case, it wasn't very clear what the lady was doing before, but it gave us an idea of what she might be doing, and we started to draw conclusions about what kind of person she was. This is what we have to do in realistic theater on-stage, we need to make our before time give the audience an idea of where were we, what were we doing.
Conclusion: In real life, each person experiences his life in a set of continues events, that go one after another. However, in theater, only certain events are show, with gaps that are not shown on stage. This is why before time is important, to give an idea to the audience on what happened on that "gap" of events.
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