Overcoming Difficulties - 15/01/15

In the lesson today, we started a new piece of theatre for the play that we are putting together - 'Tales Of The East End'. The class was split into three groups and the lines for The Prologue (Taxi Scene) were divided equally between each group. For this scene, we are all compact in groups and need to move and turn around as part of a pack. As we develop the scene, we will add more sounds and noises into this. Some of the difficulties we faced were turning at the right points and having everyone say their line on cue. To overcome these issues, we added in beats to know when to turn and we agreed to go home and learn our lines so that the scene could be more precise and flow smoothly. To help create this scene, everyone in the group put forward their ideas so that we could look at them all and try to interpret them into the scene. Again, we also worked on developing our smaller group tales (Tale 7). We were able to complete another part of the scene in the time provided and we hope to have the tale finished by the next lesson. Whilst continuing to develop the tale, we will make sure that we include many sounds and movements to incorporate Physical Theatre. In an attempt to polish the scenes, I am going to make an effort to organise a day to rehearse the scenes at Lunchtime.

Target Sheet - 08/01/15

Physical Theatre - 18/01/14

In today's lesson, Mr Crowther covered our lesson. We began the lesson by playing two warm up activities - These were 'Splat' and 'Honey, I Love You'. The game 'Splat' is meant to try and get yourself focused as you need to be concentrating during the activity so that you can react quickly. 'Honey, I Love You' is an activity that is used to help you stay in a character and gain concentration.
After these warm ups, we got straight into devising a new piece of Physical Theatre for our performance of "Tales Of The East End". The class was separated into gender groups (male & female). The males in our class had the task of devising Tale 2 and all of the females had to devise Tale 1. I and many others put forward our ideas to the group so that we could start devising a piece of Physical Theatre for the play. Some of these ideas were drinking pints of beer, being rowdy in a pub and having emphasis on many words and actions. Many different movements were used to put together this piece of theatre. For example, we all parted from a small group on the word 'cold' to show that we were all singular and distant from others, but then we all joined together and made the movement of a heartbeat on the line 'but warm on the inside'. We also interpreted different types of women and created actions for them, when one of the males is talking about what he looks for in a woman. Many of the decisions we made are working well but we need to now work on progressing with the piece to get it finished and polished.
Towards the end of the lesson, the class went back into their original tale groups - In my case, with Frankie, Phoebe, Louis and Raneesha. We had already planned out and started to act out certain parts of the scene. In this lesson, we chose to act as if we were all parts of a supermarket and a cash register. For example, Phoebe would say things like "Cashier number 3 please', or Raneesha would push her arms forward to look like a till was opening. I was continuously making a beeping sound and swiping my arms as if I was working at a checkout. Every time a character spoke, they would stop being part of the cash till and walk forward to speak. At many times in the scene we all say "Kerr-ching" and quickly bob our heads up and down. Our aim as a group is to try and finish the tale as soon as possible by putting all the scenes that we have rehearsed, together.