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The play ‘Caligula’ showed us that power could be abused. In the play the Roman Emperor Caligula abused his power. Before seeing the play we did numerous activities related with power and status. One activity we did was to make up a short scene showing how level affected status, for example when a character had power over another character they would be physically higher up then them. This could mean the character that possessed more power would be standing and the other character could be lying on the ground. Another activity we had to do was make up a scenario in which a character would abuse their power; this helped us understand how Caligula abused his power and why. We also did some small role-plays, and drama games to understand how during a performance you can lose and gain power One week after seeing the play we did a workshop, which helped me understand the play and characterisation. We did lots of different activities in the workshop. In one of the activities we had to face the wall, t