Thurs 18th November EET class

In our lesson today we were split into two groups, boys and girls. We decided to make the boys do tale 2 and the girls do tale 1. We decided this because we thought it would be more interesting if the boys portrayed a women and the girls portrayed a man. This would also help with our acting skills as now we have to interpret the opposite sex to which we are, and we have never done this before so its another learning curve. I actually really liked doing tale 1, I thought the character we had to portray was really interesting and I thought that it was good also because we were able to do a lot with the tale using lots of physical theatre. 

what decisions did you make when staging Tale 1? We decided to make the main staging a diamond shape, we chose to do this because it looked really effective when we did some of the movements. It also gave us more oppitunites to use physical theatre effectively, for instance at the beggining Gloria says "he be a boy" and then everyoneone goes down one by one in their lines saying "he be a boy" and looks really cool. Its also good because who ever is talking goes to the front of the diamond, so its a good way to show to the audience clearly who is talking and so they can see and hear them, and its also good so whoever is talking can have their moment in the spotlight. 

what is working well?  Needs Improving? What is working well is that we have used physical theatre in an interesting way. For example when Nancy says "spiky hair" we all surround her at different levels pretending to be the hair and when she runs her hand through her hair we all move back like the hair on her head would. What needs improving is how we approach the work, because everyone has good ideas but choose to share them all at the same time. So what happens is that we do more talking then acting and trying the ideas out. So to improve we need to do less talking and more doing.


When working on your group tale - what section did you focus on next? We focused on the "kerrching" paragraphs. Because there is a lot of the Kerrching" sections that we should do the same actions each time. So I decided that we physicalise the cash machine, so because I each time say the lines I stand in the middle, and everyone else surrounds me being different parts of the cash machine.   

How are you communicating it in Physical Theatre style? Well we use our bodies to represent different parts of the cash till. For instance Daniel is the food scanning part, so he pretends to move the food and scan it, he also makes the sound of the food being scanned. 

How are you delivering the lines? I deliver my lines doing an East End accent, I also slouch over and look really board because my character is a moody teen who really coudnt care less about this job and just wants to leave.

What ideas do you have for staging the rest of your tale? I think we should use physical theatre when we are describing the characters. In the tale there are parts when the characters are described on their personality and appearance so maybe we could use our bodies to show that.