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Throughout the year the texts we have studied have provided us with inspiration on the topic and themes of our devised drama. The texts we have studied in theater Studies have been Anton Chekovs Three Sisters and Sophocles Antigone, one of the three Theban plays. The nexus between these plays is the role of women and could be described as proto-feminist. Antigone shows us a woman who is prepared to go against the rule of the city and Creon, whom should be the rife male in the play. Three Sisters portrays three women who cope with the death of their father, and have sex without men in their lives. We have used both of these sentiments in our devised drama, as all our women are single and go against the stereotypical view of women allowing the interview to see a contrast of five women, all a bollix up to the traditional view of women in the catholic church.We have in addition been influenced by a collection of poetry we have studies on our English literature course. Carol Ann Duffy is well known as a feminist author and her 1999 collection, The World Wife is an original collection in which she explores the view of the wives of historical, biblical and mythological men and gives the reader a chance to see the huge tales concerning these men through the eyes of the woman, who is often shown to be much more strength in character than her husband or partner. After analyse the poems, our root decided to base our five female characters on poems in the play, these poems being Delilah, Mrs Faust, Mrs Midas, Salmone and Mrs Lazarus. Using these as guidelines for our characters, the five girls in our group were able to elaborate on then, using the techniques of our practitioner, Stanisvlaski, to create a amply character from the narrative in our selected poems.Caryl Churchills play Top Girls was also an influence on us. The play Top Girls shows the audience famous women from the sometime(prenominal) having a dinner party together and discussing their exper iences to one another. This is not unconnected our devised drama and influenced us to choose the setting of a gathering.The 1995 movie How To get An American Quilt directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse inspired us for the idea of our women making a quilt together to commemorate the memory of a person from the village in which our play is set.