This week (4th - 8th June) we have crammed so many things in!
Set Designing, Anthony and Cleopatra Masterclass, Bloody mIST Performance and BLOOPERS!
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yoq9CWz-GA |
I'm going to be unconventional and start backwards in this blog! So on the Friday (8th) it was a day off school for self review day but also we had a performance of Bloody mIST to Victor Hugo (school across the road) in which the students were our age. I think it went pretty well, I don't feel it has been our best performance but it still went pretty well and we recorded this one! I have also put together a video of images and blooper videos from our unconventional rehearsals and here it is: (click the image)
Wednesday (6th) was our double lesson and basically we continued with planning and designing our set for The Good Woman of Setzuan, so I began to sketch out some rough ideas for how the set will be brought on and look. Since I am doing a scene set in a park it will be very interesting to do with a river, bridge, projection and various other things to consider. But that was the basis of the lesson, each student to themselves and work on planning your set.
Tuesday we were very privileged to be invited over to the school across the road (Victor Hugo) to have a workshop with a Royal Shakespeare Company Director (Helen Leblique) on the play Anthony and Cleopatra (since the English class at Victor Hugo are studying it) we began by playing a game which was all about status. The first was you are given a card (King is High and Ace is Low) and you put it up above your forehead for everyone to see but you cant see it, so if a person with a 2 above their head approaches you, you have to act as if they were that status however what must be kept in mind is your status because you could act like a king but you are an Ace, you have to be aware of how others treat you and mould yourself to that. The second game was an alteration of the first however now you are the only person who has seen your card and you have to act accordingly for example as a King you would strut, order people, keep away from the lowers. Whereas for an Ace they will be sitting in a corner not talking to a single person. We then worked with Act 2, Scene 2 in the play which is a rather diplomatic scene, however depending on how the lines are spoke can make a massive difference on the whole scene, it was really interesting to see the power of lines and how they can be manipulated and but standing up and acting it out you could see a true difference to just sitting down and reading it (unlike what we have done with Hamlet in English Class).
" The three things we discovered as a Theatre class from the workshop were How important status in each scene since it is always constantly changing and also the difference in characters and how they themselves see their status compared to others. Nearly all stage directions seen in Shakespeare plays have been edited in by an editor and were not in the original manuscripts. The setting whether or not it is a domestic or public scene, the dynamics of language change so much. "
That is it for this week, it has been a pretty good and fun week! Enjoy the bloopers!
Richard #1
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