Aaaaaand... we're back!

Monday, we trudged back in the drama room, full of memories from Taps and full of envy for all future year 12's.But there we were back to work. Mr. Fearnehough gave us feedback on our theatrical analysis papers. I got a 4, which suits me fine seeing as I am completely new to theatre. However, by using his feedback, I hope I can do better.

Which brings us to Wednesday. Mr. Fearnehough was busy overseeing an examination, so he gave us another theatrical analysis to write, this time on “One Man, Two Guvnors”. I found this one slightly easier, thanks to the feedback from my earlier attempt and also because this play was possibly the best performance I have ever seen. In my review, I wrote about the timing and pace, the opening and ending, the transition of scenes, space, set design, costumes, use of voice, use of body and emotion as well as the director’s concept.

On Thursday, we studied three similar, but slightly different aspects of theatre. Influence, Imitation and Inspiration. After discussing the three ideas at length, we came to the conclusion that Imitation is the exact reproduction of something, Influence is producing something using  one’s impression of another thing and Inspiration is taking good ideas from one thing, changing them slightly to one’s taste and introducing them in something else. We discussed how this is considered plagiarism in other lessons, but not in theatre, where it is encouraged.