Monday 17^th September

Was our ‘Me’ presentation day, we all presented about ourselves and explained to each other the theatre practises that we had researched.  The 5 theatre practises researched was Vaudeville, Theatre of the oppressed, Peeking theatre, Kabuki and Musical. The presentations helped us get to know everyone better and help us connect in a more theatrical way to people’s interests and made us more comfortable with each other.  After the presentations we spoke about what really needed to be mentioned

-           - Salutation

-          - Confidence

-          -  How it relates to you as a theater student.

Wednesday 19^th September

Was a double lesson day – During the first part of these two hours we started of doing an activity where we had to point at an object in the room and say what it was called, then we did it again but this time we had to point at the object and say a different word to what it actually was. E.g . If I pointed to a chair I would say elephant, if I pointed to a window I would said car and so on. The main reason we did this activity was to be spontaneous and improvising and showed us that in theatre you have to be on your feet and ready to improvise at any moment.

During the second half of our double hour Mr. Fearnehough played us a piece of music ‘IGiorni’, after listening to this soft to this gentle and beautiful piece of music we were told that we had to come up with our own piece of 5-10 minutes long including all of us, and including the 5 theatre practises we learnt about from each other on the Monday. We wrote down what the music made us think of and what emotions we could feel then as a group we talked about what we had written and shared our ideas. From that we developed and idea of “Journey of life”, showing a life journey of a women and her life during the war. After sharing our ideas we decide to start setting up how the stage would be set.

Thursday 19^th September

At the beginning of this lesson we were set a warm up activity where we had to greet everyone in the way we would normally then a second time go round the group greeting people in a different way to what we first did. A second activity was set where we were given some cards and we had to look at what the number was and we had to walk in the status we thought was best associated with the card. Then we did it a second time but this time we weren’t allowed to look at the cards and we had to rely on people’s reactions and associate ourselves with the card we had. This activity helped us with different levels and status we can use during the piece we performed and helped us for the future.