The aim of today’s lecture was to focus on and start to gather ideas which we could base our performance on.
To start off the lecture, we started with a physical warmup. Firstly we started by standing in a circle where everyone in the circle held hands. We then had a hula hoop which we all had to get through one by one without letting go of each others hands. At first, we found this quite difficult as a group but when we started to get the hang of it, it became easier and we were able to pick up the speed. Another warmup activity that we carried out was “shoulder, clip, clap”. We have carried this exercise out in the previous weeks but this week, after we had gone over the rhythms that we had learnt in the previous weeks, we created a few new rhythms. Once we had created a few new ones and got the hang of them, we each picked the sequence which we felt we were the most confident with and then we all performed our sequences at the same time. However, we all started the sequences off at different times so we all came in one after another and then finished at different times.
After the warmup we were split into 2 groups ready for a performance quiz. The questions in the quiz were all to do with the performing arts industry. The questions included lots of useful information such as terminology which will be useful to us throughout the performing arts course. The quiz consisted of lots and lots of questions. Once we had finished the quiz, we marked the other groups answers and handed them back to see how we had done.
After the quiz, as a group we started to discuss different genres of plays. We came up with a list of all the different genres which included tragedy, comedy, sci-fi and kitchen sink drama. From this, we were then set an improvisation task. We were asked to create a short performance of a well-known story but had to include 5 genres of theatre within the performance. As a group we decided to perform little red riding hood. Throughout the performance I acted as a tree and then took on the role of the grandma. Although we did have some preparation time, this task was more of an improvisation as we didn’t fully plan the scene. We needed this time to plan because we needed to decide how we were going to incorporate the 5 genres into the piece. The 5 genres that we picked were tragedy, panto, comedy, theatre in education and horror. As a group, we found this task quite difficult as it was quite hard to try and include all of these genres into one short performance.
After a short break, we started looking at something that our lecturer, Alys had seen recently in the news which could be a good idea to base our performance around. The news story was about a lady who had gone missing 50 years ago who had never been found. The 50 year anniversary was of her death. She was last seen blackberry picking in a field. To develop characterisation, our lecturer Alys played the character of the woman as we carried out a hot seating activity. We had to ask Alys several different questions that were related to the news story which she then had to answer as if she was the character.
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