my intended statement I wished to put across to the audience. which was the idea that drugs are not only mentally and psychically damaging to you directly but they also make you vulnerable to dangers of the outside world, and in my case in danger was the control Charlie took over me, and the way he exploited this control.    

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Kill everyone (Face) 
 Hit every house No survivors  (Face)
 Don't confined yourself with morals? Charlie does not advise? Charlie does not advise. Charlie does not Command anybody to do anything? 
Charlie does not Command anybody to do anything. He never has.
 He will lead us into the valley of death. 
We are the chosen people. (Confused) 
No remorse (Confused) 
I feel no bad, I know no bad. 
 (Confused) 
 Pains not bad it's good, it teaches you things. I understand that. 
 (Happy) Saidie Mae Glutz. 
 "PIG" - I have no mercy for you bitch. 
 (SCREAM)
 You know you really have to love someone to kill them.


 I have x'd myself from your world. END 

Audio : I choose to use audio in my devised piece to have a greater impact on my audience and so that they could come to a better understanding of who my character was. For example I use a voice over of an interview of Susan Atkins 20 years after her arrest. Describing what happened that night at Sharon Tate's house. This set my the scene for my piece. The next audio I choose to incorporate into my devised drama was the song sexy saidie by the beetles. I choose this song because the beetles were a huge part of the hole 'Helter Skelter' scheme that Charlie believed in (hence the name) also Charlie re-named Susan as Saidie Mae Glutz, after the song so I thought it was be appropriate. After the song ends it transitions into my next audio which was a song Manson wrote himself about the valley of death, and it was the Manson family singing which tied in nicely to the moment I was trying to recreate of which Susan became apart of the 'family' and began to come under Charlie's control. The next audio I choose you use was the song helter skelter by the beetles. I choose this song to represent the murder because Charlie believed this song had a secret message in the lyrics that only he could understand and it was telling him to do the things he did.

In my performance I used aspects from theatre of cruelty. I decided to use this certain type of theatre because I found it really worked in well with my peace. The way in which I wanted to portray my character and the particular parts of her life I wanted to show my audience. For example I wished to convey the time in Susan Atkins life before meeting Manson, when she was a stripper and first got into drugs. I choose to show this by the use of breath, the building of the breath getting louder and louder, harsher and harsher. At the very start of my piece I walk up and down the stage dragging the chair with me everywhere I go showing that I can not get away from my problems. I am trying to escape the chair and only when taking the drugs can I escape the ‘chair’ which later in the devised piece begins to represent Charlie (her problems).The audio playing in the back ground is an interview of Susan Atkins twenty years later describing the murder. I show that where ever I go my problems are still with me, weather or not I ‘love’ or ‘hate’ them (e.g. I love Charlie and yet I hate my abusive father) but in the end they both cause my destruction. I choose to strip not only because of Susan’s background of being a topless dance but also to portray how vulnerable drugs can make you. MY intention for my devised piece was to show the audience the dangers of drug use. Not the physical or mental dangers but the psychological dangers which make you vulnerable to, in my case the control by Charles Manson. I then go into mirroring Charlie’s hand movements to portray him taking control of me physically and mentally by repeating his words and his commands. As this goes on I start off by being unsure but believing him more and more and becoming more confident as time passes. I then finally taking the last command, ‘kill everyone’. At this point I kick the chair away representing I have passed the point of no return, I have no problems, I have no past, I am a new person, I am Charlie’s girl. I then write ‘PIG’ on the wall because this is what Susan Atkins had written on the walls of her victims houses in their own blood. This symbolized the kill, I then begin to cry hysterically but as I turn to the audience it is reveled that I am actually laughing. I wanted to do this to portray how different Susan was portrayed in the media after the murders. She came across to the media as ‘curious’, ‘sweet’, and ‘child like’ however she was a cold blooded killer with no remorse. I decided to end it with a quote from Susan “you know you really have to love someone to kill them.” and finally “I have X’ed myself from your world.” This is significant because during the trial all of the Manson family carved X’s into the foreheads to represent that they are dead already.