Week 5

We started week five like every other week, with a warmup to get us through the week. And since it was the last week before half term everyone was happy and anxious to get the week over and done with.

with Mike, we decided to put our fairy tale inspired performances aside and work on an actual performance. We got separated into 2 groups, one group got Hansel & Gretel and the other group [us] got Grimm tales. So we read through the script learning about it and familiarising ourself with the characters, I was quite happy, because I got to play the villain, and I love being the villain. We familiarised ourselves with the script/play and the characters all that we had to do now was start performing.

with Richard we started the same way as we always do.. in semi supine, warming up our vocals and resonators although we also had to do a few staring exercises with Jess just so that she learns or names and familiarises with us. Moving on from the warmups Richard told us a story about a old man who woke up one day and had no breakfast and was very hungry, he went out to fish, and ended up fishing a magical fish, this magical fish claimed that in exchange for his life he’d give the old man more riches than he could ever imagine. The old man free’d the fish and I’m the water he saw a gold chain, he pulled and pulled but it was all to heavy for the boat to stay a-lift and then the boat sunk and the old man drowned, and greed was his sin, and his demise. We had to act out this story and in my personal opinion we did very well we acted it out and told the story, we used a lot of physical theatre to showcase the house, the water, the gold chain, etc.. and in the end the whole point of that exercise was for us to think about how we could act out our plays (Hansel &Gretel, Grimm tales) and it really helped we’re now using a more physical theatre approach and its going very well, we also went through the given circumstances In our scripts highlighting them. Later on in a different lesson Jess taught us about actions, and then we had to also identify the actions in our scripts we understood the gist of it eventually but we struggled at first.

with Olexandra we didn’t do anything special we just went through our music scripts, different stage types, and performing skills as well as work skills that can help our everyday lives. Apart from that we just got a bunch of homework to do which has and will stress everyone out.