Selection of Material

For this term the material that we was given was The Nightmare Before Christmas. It is the same routine every year in Halloweentown, on Halloween the monsters come out and perform a real scare. This particular Halloween, the pumpkin king Jack Skellington, bored of the idea, saunters off into the woods with his dog Zero after Halloween night. Upon the break of dawn, he discovers a clearing of trees with different doors representing various holidays. The Christmas Tree door attracts his attention and upon entrance into the world of Christmas, Jack is fascinated with this new idea of Christmas that he must absolutely share with the citizens of Halloweentown.

 

We were told that we had to put a revolting twist on the classic film, to give the audience a nightmare that they wouldn’t forget. Whites rehearsing and putting together our monologues my group put in a lot of thought, time and research. We based our final performance on the ‘Moors Murders’ we looked through multiple newspaper articles and watched documents to try and get a clear understand of what happened.