weeks review

This week we wrote out our script so we could learn it for the performance. I'm feeling really confident about our performance next week. We have included slot of techniques in our piece and we have rehearsed and perfected it so we won't forget anything. We still need to think of what we will wear but I think just casual day to day clothes will work best because then it tells the audience that this abuse towards women is a common thing that happens everyday.

I'm looking forward to performing this.

week review

This week we rehearsed Alice in wonderland and decided to change the plot. We changed it so it's a drug rehabilitation hospital. And Alice is the new patient. The asylum in called "wonderland". And whilst she is being drawn of the drug shes imagining the hospital s a magical world. But as she begin to get cured and begins to get better, this place in her head starts to make no sense to her until at the end she is fully recovered and has to leave wonderland the asylum and wonderland the place in her head.

Throughout the play we will project steps that patients take on the road to recovery. For example step one could be extreme hallucinations then we would show Alice have hallucinations. In lesson we also planned the set. We decided to strip the walls of the posters and cover the walls and ceiling in a thin plastic material. We also decided to cage the audience in so the felt like they were in the asylum and paint all props white. All the characters will wear white too and Alice will wear a white night gown.

We also decided that Alice won't look classically pretty as she does in the films instead she will look like she is sick, to do this I will darken the circles under my eyes, define my cheek bones so I look sickly thin and make my lips and skin pale.

I'm feeling anxious about performing next Tuesday as we haven't done a full run through yet. But we are practising after school Tuesday until the performance at 6:00.

weeks review

This week we finished our performance. We combined our beginning scene and our dancing scene together and then created a new scene showing the audience the sirens now. We used this music: http://m.youtube.com/?reload=2&rdm=1bmd58602#/watch?v=ujAfhLLVM7E
This is the music that the sirens sing to seduce the men and then drown them. Meg and I play the sirens and Dan, Mickey and Carl play the men that we drown. After drowning the men we end with Meg and I "calling" for the audience. This will work really well as we are performing to all boys and sirens only drown boys. Throughout the play we have included little snippets of dialogue and narration to let the audience.known what is going on and to help them gain a better understanding. Carl is the narrator and just before we go into the sirens scene Carl will narrate what the sirens are and what they do to men.

I think we should include audience interaction, maybe the sirens can come off stage and into the audience or bring a member of the audience up.

weeks review

This week we finished "Alice in wonderland". We were able to complete each scene and figure out the running order. We also decided  that we wouldn't include the hall scene and we would keep the performance in the gallery theatre. I think this is a good idea as it lets the audience settle into their environment, allowing us to make them feel uncomfortable later in the performance. This week we mainly just rehearsed our performance.