Lesson 6

Lesson 6
In this lesson we continued with our progression with the play "East End Tales". Ms Lee, our normal teacher for Thursday lessons, was absent so with had Mr Crowther as a cover. Nevertheless, we started the lesson with two warm ups: Splat, the reaction and focus based game and a new exercise called "Honey I love you". This game involves a main person who selects a target from the middle of a circle the rest of the group has created. He/She then walks over to their chosen target and says "Honey I love you". The aim of the game is to make the target laugh or giggle by actions or the words. However, if the other person doesn't laugh or giggle then they would have to say back to the approaching person, "Honey I love you too but I just can't laugh.". If they do laugh then they are simply out of the game and watch the duration of the warm up.

As we were told last lesson, the boys and girls from our class would be split up in two large groups. I was part of the boys which were performing tale 2 from the play and the girls tale 1. These tales both had a resemblance in that the main purpose of it was to describe another character, one a 18 year old boy and one a 21 year old women. The boys were chosen to perform the scene with the women, the girls the opposite. We used the physical theatre we had been practised in previous lessons as separate groups and combined our ideas and techniques as one. Some of these techniques were narration, timing and the wave. For example, during the beginning of the scene we set the background as a pub, we incorporated the wave through raising our glasses as though we were drinking in a consistent timing from right to left.

After this we split up into our individual tales, of which my group made great progress on. Though the performance was a little ruff we finally had a secure start for the rest of the tale as we worked though 3 entire paragraphs. We obtained helpful feedback from the rest as the finish of our scene most of which was to do with "polishing" the timing of our actions and other related things.

In conclusion, I feel that we have made huge progress this week through our individual tales and the start of the group tales and I'm positive that we will continue that same progress next term.