Preparing our Commedia play:

Monday 10^th December: Halley presented her acid test. She did this in a very interesting way by including all of the questions the play raised into a sort of birdcage.  Doing this highlighted the performance concept of the play, essentially stating that we are bou8nd by the questions we ask. We then started speaking about our upcoming commedia play. For homework, we were told to come up with a story or plot.

Wednesday 12^th December: We spent the first half of the lesson hammering out an action plan for our commedia play. This took a while because we were also learning about the important steps and their order for making a piece.

 

 

Then, Mr. Fearnehough told us to stand up and make everyone laugh. Everyone found this difficult, but I blanked and just didn’t know what to do. This was explained by Mr Fearnehough. He explained the “cop in the head” concept, in which everyone has this innate fear, or “cop”, that stops us from doing something where we might embarrass ourselves.

 

 

Thursday 13^th December: We finalised our action plan and I am a little worried that we may not have enough time. WE all proposed our plot ideas. Mine was a simple idea of a man falling for his boss’ daughter. Mr Fearnehough stole Halley and Lydia’s ideas on romance. More precisely, Halley liked the idea of theming it on Valentine’s Day. Lydia wanted to focus on an exaggerated version of high school whereas Abby wanted a spoof spy sort of thing and Bekki wanted to focus it on cheating couples.  Mary came up with an ugly girl becoming beautiful, which we all agreed was funny. We all thought that perhaps a combination of some of these ideas was the best way to go. On Monday we will decide for definite what to do.