Theatre For Children: Eighth Lesson

Tuesday 4^th November

Performance workshop

We were given the running order of the show this week, which is

1.    Toys – in entrance looking for action man

2.   Mice – part 1

3.    Dance –  waking up on christmas day

4.    St. nick

5.    Reindeer – part 1

6.    Toys – part 1 up to losing Mel

7.    Mice – part 2

8.    St. nick

9.    Toy – part 2

10. Reindeer – part 2

11. End everyone on stage

I think is running order is really good because  you not just have one section after other it becomes flowing and you become hooked on what the going  to happen in the section part of each section. We were also linking the work as well which means we are getting a story line for our short scene so they all flow in to one another.

We were given feedback as well for out scene from last term, we were told we need to go in to the audience more like action man need to go under chairs in and out the aisle, she also said that we need to have action man doing push and other exercise in Santa’s sack.

We also had to do  a workshop on Thursday for a group of year 2s at the Crescent primary school, which help because we did our first section of out scene and ask them for feedback which was all the naught bits like the robot being moved by action man to touch his butt which they laughed at, one of the assistance said that when the robot tries to flirt with Barbie they didn’t find it funny so maybe we should have that bit but have something funny instead so the children would laugh. We play a game where the children had to change one of the classmates in to a funny position, we got a couple of ideas from this as when one of the children put his class mate on one foot he feel straight over so we could use that idea when everyone freeze in out scene action man could put one of us on one leg and when we unfreeze that person falls over.

In storytelling we were setting out where everyone would come on stand on stage. The toys start our scene in a heap so Emma our teacher thought we could us physical theatre to come on stage like folding over each and making shapes which would imply we were in a sack on Santa’s back.  We would also be on stage in our heap as Santa come down the chimney in other scene happening and when Santa throws the sack on the floor we would fall out of our heap which would imply that we were being move and tangled up. I feel this is a really good idea as not all the scene start on stage but I’m feel that maybe in our toy scene we are going to find it difficult to put the physical theatre piece together as we are having difficulty with being in a sack so hopeful we will have help and we’ll be able to set it out.

Theatre for Children

We were carrying on we our group dance and if looks really good. We’ve added more so it now 2 minutes long.  After waking up in cannon we wake up in a Mexica wave type style, we use the idea we had in the group I was in, which we wake up in steps so we use the step

1.    Sleeping

2.    getting out of bed

3.    yawning while standing up

4.    standing up rubbing your eyes

the last group would wake the next group up then so on till everyone was a wake then we would walk round for 8 counts the for 2 counts we would do one of our three greeting that we did in early lesson.

I need to come up with three actions as I change my character which is Dora the explorer

 Here are the three greeting

1.    holding a map looking at it

2.    saying ihola

3.    holding one hand on my backpack and the other looking out in to the distance

 I feel this really shows who my character is; I found it difficult to come up with actions as when we had Anaish Nathan Parmar he said the children can tell straight away if the character is real or not so I’m have been looking at Dora the explorer TV show to get some ideas to help me get in to character.

After watching some episode I find that she use the Spanish words as well as using the English word so I have look up the Spanish words for the objects I pull out the bags to try and caught action man with:

Rope – Cuerda

Cheese – Queso

Net – Neto

Shoe – Zapatoo

Wig – Peluca

I am going to try and learn these words so I can pull the objects out the bag I can say it in Spanish and English, I can also get the children in the audience can get learn the words too.

Till next time