Unit 7 - Theatre in education

Thursday 23^rd November

The main aim of the session this afternoon was to get the final scene devised so that we have a full storyline.

We spent most of the first part of the session devising the final scene for the performance. We had already come up with ideas and discussed what we want to happen in this scene so we now just need to improvise around these ideas. After having a small discussion to remind ourselves of what the final scene was going to include, we started to improvise around these ideas. We improvised the scene a few times and each time was slightly differently worded. I will then pick the best one when coming to transcribing. We were able to film these improvisations so that I don’t have to remember what everyone said, I can just look back at the video. I will use the videos to transcribe what was said and then add this to the rest of the script.

For the rest of the session we ran through the whole of performance up until the last scene. This is because it gave us an opportunity to go over our lines so that we are continuing to learn them. Whilst we were making our way through the script, we spotted a few things that need amending slightly and I therefore wrote on my script in pencil and I will amend this electronically later. I do this every week during the rehearsals and then I use a new clean draft every week so that I can make more amendments in pencil if I need to.

At the end of the run-through, our teacher gave us some feedback. One of the comments that she gave me was that I need to be more fairy like. I need to do this by smiling more every time I come onto stage. Also, I should use my dance technique to become more fairy like because I think this would really help due to all my ballet training. Another thing that needs to be worked on is breaking the 4^th wall. At the moment there is some audience participation but there could be more of it. We, as characters, don’t really go into the audience at any point so we thought about adding this in. We thought that a good place to put this would be during Fiona’s Fruity Kingdom song. I used this time to work on this and change the choreography that I have currently got. Instead of dancing around the stage, I now go up into the audience. I then had the idea of sprinkling some glitter on the children because I think they would really like that. This is something that we need to do some research into and consider carefully.