Blog 9 Responding to "Live" performance

Have you ever been to live performance - actors on stage? Yes or No.

This week you watched a Zen Zen Zoe live performance that had been filmed. It was a performance based on Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" which had been designed for touring high schools. Zen Zen Zoe are a physical theatre company. based in Brisbane but they do run workshops here.
http://zenzenzo.com/product/romeo-juliet-55-minutes-dvd/

On you BLOG write a paragraph about what you saw. You can cut and paste my paragraph on Spamalot, which Mrs Beer, Ms Clemence and I went to see on Friday night.

STATE
Spamalot is a funny, chaotic and very silly musical.
EXPLAIN
It is  written by some of the Monty Python comedy team and is a parody of musicals. It is presented very seriously.
EXAMPLE
At an early stage  a couple, The Lady of the Lake and Sir Lancelot, sing a romantic song. The tune is romantic but the words are silly, "this is the song that goes like this/this is the song that goes on too long". In the second act the Lady of the Lake barges on stage and sings a song complaining about why she hasn't had any songs after interval. She wears very leaborate and beautiful costumes but what she says and sings is silly.
MY OPINION
I enjoyed it because it was so pretend serious that it was funny.

Using Laban movement to develop your role

Blog 7 Research assignment

ACTOR Assignment

Choose an actor you like

Achieved: Create a power-point about him/her – you can copy the David Tennant example as a template and present it to the class.

Slide 1: name and picture

Slide 2 and 3: 10 key facts about the actor’s work

Slide 4 pictures of the actor in different roles

Slide 5 A video clip – hyperlinked  of him/her performing

Slide 5- 5 reasons why like the way this actor acts

Last slide- bibliography: a list of websites where you found information

MERIT

Do all of the above plus

Add 2 more video clips – hyperlinked and describe what you think was good acting – give specific examples of how he uses his body {techniques}

Present it to the class by standing at the front and telling us extra details [eg: explaining which roles the pictures are of.

Excellence

Do all of the above plus: write a comparison of two of his/her roles [chart on powerpoint.

Answer questions from the class about the actor.