Unit 7 - Theatre in education

Tuesday 17^th October

I decided that I would attend this session today because it meant that we would be able to spend more time as a group working on the performance. The main focus of the session was to try and get Molly and Kellyann to contribute more ideas to the devising process as they are currently just saying the lines that they have been given and not contributing any ideas as to what else could be included in the performance. Also, another focus is to try and get Molly and Kellyann to become less inhibited and to explore more with their characters. We will be working on this for the next few weeks during rehearsals.

Throughout the session, we ran through the scenes which we have devised so far and tried to tighten up on the words a little. I am currently in the process of writing the first draft script as we need to start writing otherwise we won’t have enough time to learn our lines.

Another key thing that we did in this session was that we introduced a new prop. In the props cupboard, we found a rainbow painted chair which we thought would be great for the show as it is brightly coloured and we thought that it would bring potential to the performance. We haven’t decided what the chair will be called yet but we know that the chair will be ‘magic’. We then incorporated this into the start of the show when Annie Apple enters.

Towards the end of the session, we spent some time working on some choreography for the ‘Sweetie Day’ song. I took lead for this and decided to make something quite simple up so that it is easy for Molly and Kellyann to learn. We didn’t have much time to choreograph anything so I just choreographed something for the chorus. During the chorus, the 3 characters stand centre stage holding hands. In unison, they step onto one foot to the side and then kick the other foot over at a diagonal in front of the supporting leg. It took me a while to teach Molly this move because she dosen’t have any sight at all so I had to explain the move in quite a lot of detail so that she could understand what is going on. We will work on this choreography in the next session and will probably be a continuous process to make sure that the moves are perfected.

To finish off the lesson we had a run through of everything that we had covered in the session. During this run-through, our lecturer Cara gave us some pointers and feedback along the way. Here is a video of us during the final run-through: