This week (21st - 25th May) in the world of IB Theatre
We have been up against the clock and time is quickly running out
Tuesday we were a person down, so group work slowed and didn't run as smoothly as usual. However that wasn't a massive problem since we had other things to discuss such as the upcoming IST's Got Talent which is on all of our minds as the moment due to the fact ticket sellers haven't been selling and whatever tickets have been sold it seems no money has changed hands yet but I'll get onto that later. For some part of the lesson we got up to work on our short piece 'A Brecht's House' where we try to implement Brecht's acting techniques into a naturalistic play which we have previously worked on (A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen) but this also was slow going as even though we were aware of techniques we were unsure of how to actually implement them into that piece since we were doing two separate extracts from the play itself. So Tuesday was more of a slow paced lesson with not much being done.
Wednesday however we were back up to the Fabulous Four of the ensemble. We planned what our moves were for IST's Got Talent such as when to see the acts and talking to the tour guides. But also taking a side step here I feel that doing and organising IST's Got Talent has shown us how much work something even this small scale is, such as reliability on others, trusting others which shows from our experience people have to be pushed and lead rather left to do their own thing which is something we need to keep in mind for any future events we organise or help to organise. So we discussed this along with dates things need to be done for since there is less than a week before the evening and everything is still very chaotic we really need to pull together and do this, so the first hour was pretty much admin on the whole IST's Got Talent Event. For the first half-hour of the second hour of our 2 hour lesson (TOO MANY HOURS!) we got to work more on our Brecht's house before we showed Mr. Fearnehough, in this half hour we were able to get alot more done (maybe because we had four people?) but whatever the reason it seemed to go much better than other rehearsals. Then for the final half-hour of the lesson we showed it to Mr. Fearnehough and took pictures throughout (which I will be annotating in a separate blog post) and after we had finished we talked about what we had used (Epic Theatre Wise) in our Brecht's House Piece. Discussing how each one has their own diverse affect on a piece and how it cuts it up and alienates (or Verfumdung's) the piece, such as having a narrator saying what is about to happen as this distances the audience, masks again give clear indication of distance, music, and following a message rather than a plot. We learnt that each aspect of Epic Theatre alienates in their own way (and in some cases some aspects depending on the piece alienates in more than one way)
Wednesday after-noon we stayed back after school to practise our Bloody mIST piece which we were lucky enough to have 2 audience members. So we performed our piece (as full as we possibly could have) to that audience which as first they were very and I mean VERY confused about, however after we took the time to explain where the idea originated from and why our piece is so confusing and weird to understand, which then caused them to get it much more. We did have a problem however, people had decided to stay back after school to practise for IST's Got Talent but they hadn't notified a teacher meaning they were not actually allowed to stay back, so after alot of huffing and puffing we had to send them home which is a shame since we could have benefited greatly from seeing the acts that were there. But what can you do?
Friday was a proper admin lesson talking about the action plan for the night of IST's Got Talent and also sorting out the title for our big IB Theatre Display and a Leaflet / Programme of what Bloody mIST and why and how it came about. One final thing however that bugged me Friday was that were had been told there would be people at the front desk or outside selling tickets for IST's Got Talent, I got our of school some 10 minutes later NOBODY WAS THERE. NOBODY. I mean come on? When you say you are going to do something, DO IT. It majorly bugged me. So now we really are up against the clock for this!
Anyhow and that nice and flowery note that is it for this week and just maybe for future reference for me I'll be missing Tuesday and Wednesday Theatre Lessons due to the fact I'm in Scotland looking at 2 universities.
Richard #1
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