Effective Rehearsal

Today we have talked about rehearsing effectively, students are practising their audition pieces for performance next lesson.
Should have: a role on the wall/ Stanislavsky questions and learned lines.
Effective Rehearsal

Puppet Practise

Hopefully you can see our first puppet practise here. Students have worked on creating their own paperbag puppets and are now experimenting with using different voices to develop the character.

Shrew with Ugly Shakespeare

FOCUS_ Domestic Violence
Comedy or tragedy [black/ white flag]
ACTION
ROLES- 3 actors, multiple roles: eg: old neighbour suitor to Bianca
TIME
TENSION
SPACE - 3 screens: paintings of renassance woman

TECHNOLOGIES_ music


RESEARCH

https://www.ugly.org.nz/

creating roles- puppets

TASKS
1 Make a puppet: research/ plan/select materials/construct
2. Name  your ROLE and list 10 things about them
3 write a song or a monologue or a dialogue that suits your character

Ted... Alice,,,,,Shar

TED- it is 8 years old; he likes dinosaurs, he loves broccoli, his favourite colour is blue,  and likes to be clean; he lives with his Nana, he is very neat, he makes kites and sells them at markets [his Nana has a craft stall]

Jabberwocky

Jabberwocky

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 

      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: 

All mimsy were the borogoves, 

      And the mome raths outgrabe. 

A combination animal [from our Animal Mix game] - bird snake would have a long snake body, and with feathers at the head and scales starting where the wings start. The wings are feathered. It is greens and blues bit with orange wing tips and tail feathers.

Licorice Theatre

Creating Characters for our children's show - this term we plan to make costumes for our original characters. We hope to perform for small children.

Some interesting starting ideas  like killer Telly Tubbies! That is not really quite what we want.

A collar I made for a musical here.

3 cabbages - costumes made by 10Drama