Week Commencing 12th of February

 Monday 12th of February

Today we were in the theatre with Kelly and began the lesson by doing games such as Wah and Splat to help with our concentration for the day.  After the games we then focussed on Shout for the day, where we practiced the therapist snake scene.  In this scene we had the Freaks and Geeks come into the room wearing snake sock puppets to assist the therapist in trying to help Dana speak, however we were still brainstorming on how they would interact with Dana during the scene.  Because of this, we continued working on the guidance councillor scene whilst we brainstormed ideas for the therapist scene.  For this scene, whilst Dana was being spoken to, we had the ensemble walk behind them, and talk to each other about different universities (silently of course).


Tuesday 13th of February

Today we had a lesson with Tom like we normally do, and kept working on our practitioner PowerPoints.  Me and my partners went down to the LRC to do some research on our practitioner, such as how he improved theatre and some historical context to him.  We also created a practical for the other teams to do once we are done with our PowerPoint, where we would get the other groups to do a short 1 minute long scene without dialogue, and after the scene is performed, the other groups have to guess what the scene was about.


Thursday 14th of February

Today, we were told about an old connections piece one of our classmates was going to direct for us to put back on near the end of the year, called Hunt.  Because of this, we did a read through of the script so we could see whether we liked the story, and if we did which character we would want to go for.

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