Tuesday 9th September 2014
Sharron began the session with a warm up of us walking around in the room, commanding us to constantly change direction, this caused us to keep focused on ourselves and become neutral.
As it was our first day back, Sharron then instructed us to get into pairs, and explain to our partners what we did over the summer holiday. I paired up with Jade who summed up to me that her summer was boring which I then asked her to explain more in depth exactly what happened for it to be boring.
She then proceeded to tell me that for the first part of her summer holidays she was hanging out with friends, not really doing much until the last 2 weeks of the summer holidays where she went to Turkey with her Dad's side of the family which she thought was a big mistake as none of them wanted to explore or have fun, all they wanted to do is sit by the pool and sunbathe and there were a lot of German tourists who kept trying to converse to her in German and kept having to tell them she wasn't German.
After Sharron had checked each partner had recounted their summer to their partner, we was instructed to then join another pair where our partner would recount their partners story to the other pair and it would continue until the whole group had heard everyone's summers. Once that was done, we then had to devise a piece based on our summers. The short play could either be a recount of one person's summer or we had the option of combining everyone's summers to make a bigger piece.
As it was our first day back, Sharron then instructed us to get into pairs, and explain to our partners what we did over the summer holiday. I paired up with Jade who summed up to me that her summer was boring which I then asked her to explain more in depth exactly what happened for it to be boring.
She then proceeded to tell me that for the first part of her summer holidays she was hanging out with friends, not really doing much until the last 2 weeks of the summer holidays where she went to Turkey with her Dad's side of the family which she thought was a big mistake as none of them wanted to explore or have fun, all they wanted to do is sit by the pool and sunbathe and there were a lot of German tourists who kept trying to converse to her in German and kept having to tell them she wasn't German.
After Sharron had checked each partner had recounted their summer to their partner, we was instructed to then join another pair where our partner would recount their partners story to the other pair and it would continue until the whole group had heard everyone's summers. Once that was done, we then had to devise a piece based on our summers. The short play could either be a recount of one person's summer or we had the option of combining everyone's summers to make a bigger piece.
As it was the first day my group, (Jade, Sharney, Andreia and myself) didn't seem to be as enthusiastic to try and devise a piece based on our summers. After a lack of determination and deliberation on what we was going to create, I suggested after much indecision (on whose summer we would recreate if we chose to pick one person's summer) to just combine parts of our summers together.
For the first scene, we chose not doing anything interesting, just contemplating what to do which three out of four of us had in common when we heard one another's summers. The second scene incorporated Jades' summer where she went to Turkey, we showed this by moving from lazing about to relaxing in a straight line as if we was sunbathing. The third scene was Andreas summer of her mom opening up her cafe then the last scene was my summer where I had my birthday.
We thought it best to just let the scenes flow into one another as best as we could to keep our devising play going.
For our feedback we could've been more energetic which we knew it lacked already because of our thoughts on the task beforehand which affected our performance. We needed to work on our transitioning into the next scene and use the space a bit more which is a con with combining a piece that incorporates different aspects rather than one persons story.
We then devised a short story with different characters.
Sharron described a scene of a town, afterwards she asked us to pick a character we thought would be in the town and to play a day in the life of our character. I picked a dressmaker who owned a shop. I brought my character to life by envisioning myself using a spinning wheel, a treadle wheel to be more specific which is powered by the spinners foot, making thread, putting it onto shelves to sell, using the thread I yarned to stitch clothes to sell eventually when completed. Afterwards Sharron asked us to freeze and went around the room asking everyone what character they was.
Sharron picked a police office, lady of the night, fisherman and a preacher.
She then asked us to stand in two lines facing a partner opposite you and both pairs had to act out the characters. So one line would play the police officer while the other line played the lady of the night and we'd walk to the middle of the room and interact with our partner opposite as the character.
Sharron described a scene of a town, afterwards she asked us to pick a character we thought would be in the town and to play a day in the life of our character. I picked a dressmaker who owned a shop. I brought my character to life by envisioning myself using a spinning wheel, a treadle wheel to be more specific which is powered by the spinners foot, making thread, putting it onto shelves to sell, using the thread I yarned to stitch clothes to sell eventually when completed. Afterwards Sharron asked us to freeze and went around the room asking everyone what character they was.
Sharron picked a police office, lady of the night, fisherman and a preacher.
She then asked us to stand in two lines facing a partner opposite you and both pairs had to act out the characters. So one line would play the police officer while the other line played the lady of the night and we'd walk to the middle of the room and interact with our partner opposite as the character.
We then related each character with personalities:
• Priest: Humble, Wise, Social
• Fisherman: Physically strong, Old, Determined
• Officer: Proud, Brave, Confident
• Lady Of The Night: Vulgar, seductive, Sensual
• Priest: Humble, Wise, Social
• Fisherman: Physically strong, Old, Determined
• Officer: Proud, Brave, Confident
• Lady Of The Night: Vulgar, seductive, Sensual
Afterwards we got into pairs of four and had to come up with a scene using the characters that was chosen and then we performed it to the 1st Years.
Our groups scenario was that the lady of the night was the policemans wife who doesn't know she is the lady of the night. She sleeps with the fisherman, while the policeman voices his concerns about his wife to the preacher. Each character proceeds to confess their sins to the preacher thus building up a story to the preacher that pieces together when the conclusion of the story is when the Lady of the Night finally confesses that she enjoys sleeping with other men.
Our groups scenario was that the lady of the night was the policemans wife who doesn't know she is the lady of the night. She sleeps with the fisherman, while the policeman voices his concerns about his wife to the preacher. Each character proceeds to confess their sins to the preacher thus building up a story to the preacher that pieces together when the conclusion of the story is when the Lady of the Night finally confesses that she enjoys sleeping with other men.
Thursday 11th September 2014
We began with physical warm ups and tongue twisters to warm up our bodies and voice. We then carried on with the stimulus that was created on Tuesday. We all sat in a circle and looked at a poem by Dylan Thomas called "From Under Milk Wood" where after reading it I realised that's where Sharron got her characters from.
We all read the poem but with difficulty as people weren't listening to instructions so we had a few tries until we finally completed it and could move on with the next task. When reading the poem, at each comma the person reading would stop and the next person would read until the next comma and so forth. Once the whole was finally read, we split into groups and split the poem and had to act it out.
We all read the poem but with difficulty as people weren't listening to instructions so we had a few tries until we finally completed it and could move on with the next task. When reading the poem, at each comma the person reading would stop and the next person would read until the next comma and so forth. Once the whole was finally read, we split into groups and split the poem and had to act it out.
My group was Kurtis, Sharney, Samuel and Elliott and we got the beginning paragraph of the poem. We developed our piece by picking parts we wanted to read out and adding physical elements to the piece to personify the poem thus creating a deeper atmosphere of the poem.
Afterwards we combined our movement with the poem with the other groups which created a bigger piece. What our group lacked in, with our usage of space another group made up for it. Overall the piece was very dynamic and creative and it was extraordinary to notice that regardless of separating and doing our own thing with our groups when it was all combined it flowed really well with one another.
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