BCb+Character+2+Modesty+Blaise

**Character** Modesty Blaise **Stimulus** The Modesty Blaise comic strip: // Dossier on Pluto // **Performance focus** Create a solo performance based on the character of Modesty Blaise. With her trademark panache, Modesty enthrals Sir Gerald Tarrant of the British Secret Service with details of her latest adventure and fills in some of the gaps in his knowledge of her past. She
 * Prescribed Structure 2**

• re-creates a montage of dramatic images which show how the dolphins were saved from the clutches of the ‘barking-mad’ villains • creates a scene which shows how she took control of the criminal gang in Tangier which became known as ‘The Network’ • dramatically explores how an espionage method has changed from the 1960s to the 2000s. **Performance style** Non-naturalistic **Theatrical convention** Freeze frame **Dramatic element** Conflict

**Reference material** Dossier on Pluto as found in // Modesty Blaise: The Lady Killers // by Peter O’Donnell, published by Titan Books, 2009 [] []

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