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Hoods has various scenes with the Brechtian convention of transformation; it is used in a series of ways to attain the alienating effect. The acts of transformation, which the audience views, are frequent and multi- layered. The epic theater technique of ‘alienation’ is effectively implemented throughout the play- this is shown with two adult actors playing two young kids. This emotionally detaches the audience from the characters, and makes it easier for the audience to focus more on the political issue the actors convey throughout the performance, than the characters. This play employs the concept of repetition which would further emotionally disengage the audience from the characters. The two kids (Jesse and Kyle) appear to be ghosts condemned to repeat the situation from which they died in. They are taken back to the car park they were left in, each night to spontaneously act out their past in the expectation of creating a different and more positive outcome that would release them from their emotional midpoint in their afterlife. The performance employed Kyles obsession with Xbox, by performing the play in a game like manner. Each episode which was depicted as a game, holds new and diverse possibilities to