Not so much Drama, Huh...

This week was ridiculously short in terms of Drama activities. We had Monday and Tuesday off, and we spent Friday discussing the Talent show. I think this is why we didn't realise that we hadn't blogged.

 Wednesday, was based around learning Jest. Jest is Brecht's method of bashing the audience over the head with his message. While his objective is already extremely clear in the plot of the story, Jest finalizes all possible doubt. The concept of Jest is really quite simple, showing the emotions and thoughts of your character through clear actions. The actual execution is rather difficult though. For one, the action has to spend an extermly clear message without ANY other possibilities, and Secondly, you cannot see your actions as the audience while doing them. In one of our practice poses, I was the focus point even though we were trying to highlight another person and we just couldn't see that our pose was having such an effect. Jest is one of the main examples of why Brecht still wants good acting, even though enjoyment isn't too important for him. 

On Friday, we discussed the talent show and arranged the acts into different sections. We have finally gotten down some concrete details and times! I just hope that we do get some more time to practice Bloody mIST before the show, 3 consecutive showings ouch...