Show Day!
The day began with us all coming in a getting into our black/white t-shirts and sorting gout hair and make up etc. You could feel all the excitement and nerves flowing through the room like a massive invisible breeze, some of us looking threw cues, going back over lines and some doing all these at once.
We all came together and quickly ran threw sections 5-7, which surprisingly ran quite smoothly. After that we then individually took our journey threw the play step by step moving where we were ment to be moving sitting in correct places and going threw lines and cues at the same time.
Following that Devan and Ashley ran a warm up session including the games Zip Zap Bong, Bang and a characterisation game.
11:30am performance
As the year 10's were entering you could feel the first performance nerves kicking in for everyone and all eyes were now on us. Kezia and Ruby kicked off the show with secret which was great and it just felt it got better from there. Not only was we performing this for the first time in front of an audience but it was theatre student we were trying to impress with our abstract play .
When we had finished you could feel a slight sigh of relief in the room.
It was time for our feed back. Us as a group and Mr. Crowther were astonished and amazed by the compliments and constructive criticism that the year 10's made. comments like 'You made a confusing play look naturalistic.' and 'Tighten up the transitions.'
With all this positive feedback we were all buzzing for that nights performances.
5:00pm performance
I feel for me this was my personal best. I got my cues and lines correct with no mistakes and I loved the atmosphere that the audience brought to our 5:00 show.
7:00pm performance
I thought this performance went okay but not as well as the first. All of our energy's were high standard and cues were on point, but I felt a few of us just went mind blank a few times threw the course of that show.
After all the performances were finished it you could feel the air in the room cool down a bit and everyone started to go back to normal and feel a bit more relaxed.
Overall, I am very glad we had the chance of performing Caryl Churchill's play, Love And Information. I Enjoyed every moment of it, from when we first herd of it and doing a bit of research and reading of the play to actually performing it in front of our peers and family.
Wednesday, 1 May 2013
LINGUIST
Linguist
When I fount out I got given 'Linguist' my first reaction was not that positive and felt a bit of sods law as me and languages are not a very good mix.
BUT I have come to love this scene and have had a lot of fun rehearsing, researching and performing it!
Linguist-A person skilled in foreign languages.
I could understand and relate to the character that I played , I utterly got where she was coming from with her fascination with her friend speaking all these languages.
"That's so fantastic..."
This conversation really made me laugh as it is not something you would normally think or talk about, even though when you think about it you can't help but try and make an explanation or find an answer for it.
I felt that my character was below Kezia's and I looked up to her. We showed this threw our physicality where I started by sitting on the ground and kezia was sitting above me. I was looking up at her.
CHARACTERIZATION
When I fount out I got given 'Linguist' my first reaction was not that positive and felt a bit of sods law as me and languages are not a very good mix.
BUT I have come to love this scene and have had a lot of fun rehearsing, researching and performing it!
Linguist-A person skilled in foreign languages.
I could understand and relate to the character that I played , I utterly got where she was coming from with her fascination with her friend speaking all these languages.
"That's so fantastic..."
This conversation really made me laugh as it is not something you would normally think or talk about, even though when you think about it you can't help but try and make an explanation or find an answer for it.
I felt that my character was below Kezia's and I looked up to her. We showed this threw our physicality where I started by sitting on the ground and kezia was sitting above me. I was looking up at her.
CHARACTERIZATION
- Students
- Flippant conversations
- spare time
- stubborn
- looks up to her mate
THE CHILD WHO DIDN'T KNOW SORRY
Although 'The child who didn't know sorry' was only only 5 lines it was one of my favourites.
I felt I could really relate to this piece being an older sister and have younger cousins and nephews, I have been in situations where I have had to tell them to say sorry for one reason or another.
This scene is not like a normal conversation where the child doesn't want to say sorry because they do not want to. This child can't the reason being she literally doesn't know how to feel sorry for something she's done or something that has happened,"I don't feel sorry." and I feel as the character of her mum I do not understand this or believe that she doesn't feel sorry and feel that she must say it in order to put things right.
There are a few way in interpreting this:
I felt I could really relate to this piece being an older sister and have younger cousins and nephews, I have been in situations where I have had to tell them to say sorry for one reason or another.
This scene is not like a normal conversation where the child doesn't want to say sorry because they do not want to. This child can't the reason being she literally doesn't know how to feel sorry for something she's done or something that has happened,"I don't feel sorry." and I feel as the character of her mum I do not understand this or believe that she doesn't feel sorry and feel that she must say it in order to put things right.
There are a few way in interpreting this:
- Taking a calm approach to the situation and try to compromise with the child by genitally telling her "but you knows you hurt him".
- Or going over the top with it and not stopping at nothing till she says sorry. Getting quite frustrated at the fact she will not say sorry.
CHARACTERIZATION
The mother?- Sarah Gillingham
Occupation?- Office job
spends time?- Normally at work rarely with her daughter
Where did the incident happen?- In the play park.
Why?- Se pushed another child off the swings.
Personality?- Finds hard to prioritise what is the most important things in life.
Occupation?- Office job
spends time?- Normally at work rarely with her daughter
Where did the incident happen?- In the play park.
Why?- Se pushed another child off the swings.
Personality?- Finds hard to prioritise what is the most important things in life.
GRIEF
Grief was quite a confusing one for me to grasp and get to grip with I fount.
This scene was between Kezia and I. Kez was cheeking up on me to see how I was copy with either a boyfriend or husbands death.
Kezia - "Are you sleeping?"
"Eating?"
She seems intrigued by how I'm feeling and wants me to talk and explain how I am feeling, but I am very evasive towards her questions and comments.
Me- "Oh enough. Don't fuss."
"I'm sorry, I have nothing to say. Nothing seems very interesting."
I did a some of research on what people do while they are grieving and how effects some individuals.
I came across this:
HEALING GRIEF THROUGH ART:
ART THERAPY BEREAVEMENT GROUP WORKSHOPS
http://www.agoodgroup.com/drawntogether/healing.htm
While artist would paint how they feel and express themselves threw their art others would find it hard to even endure basic daily activities, like: Sleeping, eating or even talking to close ones around them.
I also noticed in this scene the character I play is a bit uncertain on how she is feeling or how she is going to cope/feel in the long run.
"Maybe, we'll see."
This scene was between Kezia and I. Kez was cheeking up on me to see how I was copy with either a boyfriend or husbands death.
Kezia - "Are you sleeping?"
"Eating?"
She seems intrigued by how I'm feeling and wants me to talk and explain how I am feeling, but I am very evasive towards her questions and comments.
Me- "Oh enough. Don't fuss."
"I'm sorry, I have nothing to say. Nothing seems very interesting."
I did a some of research on what people do while they are grieving and how effects some individuals.
I came across this:
HEALING GRIEF THROUGH ART:
ART THERAPY BEREAVEMENT GROUP WORKSHOPS
http://www.agoodgroup.com/drawntogether/healing.htm
While artist would paint how they feel and express themselves threw their art others would find it hard to even endure basic daily activities, like: Sleeping, eating or even talking to close ones around them.
I also noticed in this scene the character I play is a bit uncertain on how she is feeling or how she is going to cope/feel in the long run.
"Maybe, we'll see."
GRASS RESEARCH
Whistle bowing
Whistleblower, a person who tells the public or someone in authority about alleged dishonest or illegal activities occurring in a government department or private company or organization.
http://articles.marketwatch.com/keyword/whistleblower
Whistleblower, a person who tells the public or someone in authority about alleged dishonest or illegal activities occurring in a government department or private company or organization.
http://articles.marketwatch.com/keyword/whistleblower
Tuesday, 30 April 2013
GRASS
Grass is defiantly on of my favourite scenes that I have, I think this is because I can bring a lot to the sketch.
I am in this scene with Liam.
The title 'Grass' tells us that this scene is about someone being 'grassed up' (someone telling someone with authority, usually the police, on someone about something they have done).
Liam and I came to a decision that this man is grassing up a close neighbour. This neighbour had vandalised/damaged another persons car who also lives down their street.
We thought this would be a good crime to base it around as it is not such a big crime but as the person is so close to them (living and friends wise) he and she are both very paranoid with the consequences of their actions.
The character in this piece seems like quite a scatty and paranoid person. She quite clearly has authority over the character who is a boyfriend or husband. She shows this by the way she cuts him off when he is trying to talk.
"what did you do that for?"
"I thought-"
"what do you think's going to happen to you?"
Also she implies that he is stupid and he does not retaliate and just takes it on the chin.
"...I'm not stupid"
"Well you are but ok..."
With this character I feel that I can bring an element of myself to her. I could bring my urban voice more to the performance and youth like mannerisms and physicality.
I really enjoyed playing this person as I felt it was an easier character to play than the others. But as I fount certain elements of this scene easier than others, I fount others hard, for example: I got given the stage directions to be pacing up and down, but I would either get too rapped up in the pacing I would forget to focus on lines or vise versa.
I am in this scene with Liam.
The title 'Grass' tells us that this scene is about someone being 'grassed up' (someone telling someone with authority, usually the police, on someone about something they have done).
Liam and I came to a decision that this man is grassing up a close neighbour. This neighbour had vandalised/damaged another persons car who also lives down their street.
We thought this would be a good crime to base it around as it is not such a big crime but as the person is so close to them (living and friends wise) he and she are both very paranoid with the consequences of their actions.
The character in this piece seems like quite a scatty and paranoid person. She quite clearly has authority over the character who is a boyfriend or husband. She shows this by the way she cuts him off when he is trying to talk.
"what did you do that for?"
"I thought-"
"what do you think's going to happen to you?"
Also she implies that he is stupid and he does not retaliate and just takes it on the chin.
"...I'm not stupid"
"Well you are but ok..."
With this character I feel that I can bring an element of myself to her. I could bring my urban voice more to the performance and youth like mannerisms and physicality.
I really enjoyed playing this person as I felt it was an easier character to play than the others. But as I fount certain elements of this scene easier than others, I fount others hard, for example: I got given the stage directions to be pacing up and down, but I would either get too rapped up in the pacing I would forget to focus on lines or vise versa.
REMOTE
Remote was the first scene I am in, I do this with Shae.
From the title 'Remote' my first impression was that it would of been about a television or a remote control. What also sprung to mind was remote as in a 'remote area' which means a place that is distant from any people or activities or buildings. No nearby town. Or a town which is within an area that is far from any where.
Funnily enough both of these assumptions were right.
"You dont seem to have a tv ."
"You might have a reception problem there"
Both these lines link to the title to do with a remote control.
"It's quite here"
"...Or i think someone said there's a spot about two miles up the road if you go down towards the cliff.."
Where these lines can relate to a remote area. Living in the middle of no where and having to travel very far to even get phone reception.
characterization.
This character was named Marie. She was in her late 30's early 40's and didn't have a job or get out the house a lot. So she stemmed her boredom with gardening.
The other character in this sketch (Shae) was a distant relative of hers, in her late teens who needed to get out of the city for a while for social and behavior reasons.
For this character I fount it quite hard giving it a personality. I think this was because she is very different to me as a person, from what I gathered from the text. So I experimented lots of different physicality and personalities for her, from:
In the end I decided that 'Marie' would be quite a jolly person.
I feel this worked well in this scene because Shae's character always had to have one over Marie, and she just didn't rise to it and just carried on the conversation as normal. I think these subtleties made the character more individual and separated her from my others.
From the title 'Remote' my first impression was that it would of been about a television or a remote control. What also sprung to mind was remote as in a 'remote area' which means a place that is distant from any people or activities or buildings. No nearby town. Or a town which is within an area that is far from any where.
Funnily enough both of these assumptions were right.
"You dont seem to have a tv ."
"You might have a reception problem there"
Both these lines link to the title to do with a remote control.
"It's quite here"
"...Or i think someone said there's a spot about two miles up the road if you go down towards the cliff.."
Where these lines can relate to a remote area. Living in the middle of no where and having to travel very far to even get phone reception.
characterization.
This character was named Marie. She was in her late 30's early 40's and didn't have a job or get out the house a lot. So she stemmed her boredom with gardening.
The other character in this sketch (Shae) was a distant relative of hers, in her late teens who needed to get out of the city for a while for social and behavior reasons.
For this character I fount it quite hard giving it a personality. I think this was because she is very different to me as a person, from what I gathered from the text. So I experimented lots of different physicality and personalities for her, from:
- Her not being very interested in her distant relative. Constantly distracted by other things, not paying any attention to her.
- Her being quite shy and dismissive around the relative. Looking at floor and hands a lot.
- Her being a friendly and enthusiastic person. Tells a lot about herself through her hand movements and facial expression.
In the end I decided that 'Marie' would be quite a jolly person.
I feel this worked well in this scene because Shae's character always had to have one over Marie, and she just didn't rise to it and just carried on the conversation as normal. I think these subtleties made the character more individual and separated her from my others.
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