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on January 09, 2018

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Week 6

Tuesday: In the first lesson with Sharon we started off by walking around the space trying to give off the impression of being in the background and being neutral. We had discussed what elements were needed from an individual to achieve this effect in both standing and walking: In standing what was helpful was to have feet shoulder width apart and both feet facing forward as though they were like train tracks. Along with this it is also helpful to keep shoulders relaxed, and to keep your body posture straight as though you were a puppet and there was a string coming from the top of your head keeping your spine straight. Keeping your facial expression neutral was also important. In walking around it would be great to keep the strides you make with equal distance and to move smoothly and without making a great tone of twists and turns. Keeping your facial expression neutral just like standing stationary is needed along with keeping the energy you give with each stride to have ...

Unit 12- Research

RESEARCH: Waiting for Godot I have decided on doing a production of the famous play Waiting for Godot. Waiting for Godot is one of the most famous plays in the 20th century. Known for being famously weird and mysterious, and making the reader question what the play is actually about. It is a play which is part of the theatre of the Absurd movement. Absurd-ism is a philosophical movement that influenced a lot of 20th century art. The absurd refers to a humans desire to the contradiction between humanities desire to find meaning in the universe and the universe itself which is meaningless. We plan on performing most of the first act and parts of the second act so all in all we perform for around 45 minutes. We would need very few props in order to create the atmosphere as it is mostly created by the personalities of the characters, which are quite bland. In terms of research, my group and I have decided on looking at homelessness, philosophy, memory loss, and early 20...

Week 9

Monday: In the first lesson, we had done some dress rehearsals and brushed up on certain scenes which had been lacking extra details or which had not been practiced enough. This was also the day that the replacement for the nurse could learn the lines they still did not know and actually perform scenes that they never got around to. I personally did not feel much pressure as I knew exactly when to come in, what to say, and how to exit all my scenes so there was no feeling of anxiety. The only real critisism we got was that we were 9 minutes over how long the play was meant to go on for so that was a little worrying. Later we managed to change 9 minutes to 3 minutes and that was a lot of weight off our shoulders. In the second lesson we had repeated the events of the first lesson, in that we went around 3 minutes over and there were still certain people who were getting distracted back stage and were not entering when they were meant to which was making some people question if the...

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