This unit represents the culmination of your tear 1 work on the course. you should ne looking now to build on your previous terms work and direct yourselves to working in a disciplined and focused manner, as we put together a performance for an outside audience. As well as a performing role, you may also wish to consider opportunities to work in a supportive, technical, administrational role.
My class will be working on an identified play "Love and Information" by Caryll Churchill, and with identified roles our group agreed on, we will develop our role in our rehearsals
We will be taking full responsibility for learning of lines and any "blocking" that is required - just like Macbeth with learning lines and blocking. We will be using skill and imagination in our interpretation as always.
Our class was given a script "Love and Information" and put into groups of 14 and 15 and in those groups we had to pick what story's/ monologue we wanted to do. The story's that I'm in are "Affair", "Mother", "Gods Voice", "Wedding Video", and "Virtual".
In our drama lessons everyone split into there groups of 14 (group 1) and 15 (group 2) and started rehearsing our pieces and getting to know how to bring our personality into our roles to bring our toles to life. In some of our lessons we shared our pieces with the class - we also had to improvise our scene before the actual scene for example what happened before the scene a month ago, an hour ago or a day ago even a year ago and perform it to the class and get feedback if they understand it or not and explain why.
I perform "Affair" with my partner Teigan. In this piece Teigan's boyfriend cheated on her and I'm telling her the news - I decided to play the role as a evil friend someone who enjoys seeing others hurt, so when I'm telling Teigan the news my goal is to see her upset and son on but until she tells me that she already knew that her boyfriend is cheating on her, I'm not very happy about it but I play if off so she doesn't notice my disappointment.
So when we performed to the class they understood our roles, where we are and our relationship.(Teigan plays a role of a very nice friend to me, very sweet) Then we performed the back story to our scene - the idea we had was Teigan is engaged (This is a year ago) she tells me the news and I am speechless and upset about it because she's happy and I'm jealous about it. So I tell her that my other friend also got engaged and that no ones engagement can top that. Everyone in my class understood the back story.
I rehearse "Mother" with Diamond, this scene is where I tell Diamond that our mother is not her mother - her mother is her nan, that I am her mother. Diamond plays aa role of a stubborn teenager. It was a secret we didn't share with Diamond but I really wanted to tell her, so I told her when our mother went out and we were alone so I found that as a chance for me to tell her. I rehearsed "Gods Voice" with Elena, in this scene I play her mother, I visit Elena at the at the mental hospital, I question her actions for she has done bad things - broke the law and she blames God for it. She plays the role of a sociopath.
I rehearse "Virtual" with both Teigan and Elena, I'm in love with a robot - a virtual and Teigan and Elena play my best friends and they try to convince me I'm crazy. In this scene everyone just talks over each other to get their point across, as for me I play the lazy role where I am not bothered or in the mood for there lecture.
We rehearsed many times in the short amount of time we got left which was ok we didn't complain, we worked as a team and in our little groups and gave ideas and made it work. We had help from our class mates and teachers. We developed more as we got along when it comes to the setting to help the scene and what our characters are. Performed and rehearsed and got got feedback and took it to mind so we can do better as we keep rehearsing.
VIRTUALMOTHER
As a class we understood our role or roles in planning and producing a performance to an audience.
I say our performance was went great even though some students caused some confusion and their was also a lot of pauses too and the energy was a little flat. Those were the things that needs developing. I got feedback that I was told that I am not being loud enough so it took it in mind but I got through it which is good. Shegnah gave us feedback about how the show went so we don't make the same mistake when we perform the second time. Everyone including was a little disappointed with themselves but we didn't let want to let ourselves down again that we will do great when we perform the second time in the evening.
When we performed again in the evening everyone did great, it was better then the one we did this morning, I think this time its because everyone was having way better fun with their characters this time and took the feedback Shenagh gave us also because we had friends and family watching us, I definitely enjoyed myself that time because I was happy I had family their to watch me.
