Monday, March 16, 2015

March 16, 2015 - March 20, 2015 Agenda

Classes taught by Mr. Alexander Fox

Monday, March 16th:

Symphony of Emotions:
Actors are given emotions to express through  sound and movement. The actors are then assigned different emotions and the director "directs" them in a symphony of emotional sounds.
 The actors then say their lines from their Shakespeare scene  using the emotion assigned. The actors all stand onstage and say their lines simultaneously.

Actors cut their lines: worked with Ry and Melissa on Julius Caesar

Hot Seat
A Midsummer Night's Dream: Oberon and Titania in the "hot seat" (Ayana and Christian) answering questions from reporters he audience.

Tuesday, March 17th:



Theatre Games:
“Shields and Bombs”

Pick one person in group who is your bomb but do not tell that person s/he is your bomb; now, choose someone who is your shield, but do not tell that person s/he is your shield. When the director yells, “Bomb!” if the shield is not between you and your bomb, then you are dead!


“Make ‘Em Laugh”
Break into two groups:
One group tries to make the other side:
Laugh
Get Angry
Feel ashamed.
By doing something silly or speaking gibberish

Next step use a phrase from your scene. Connect it to the objective or super objective of  your character in the scene. Goal is to make the other character feel something - happy, sad, angry, lusty, etc. For example, Hamlet's goal is to make Ophelia love him, but he uses tactic of shaming her (it fits with the lines)  into falling in love with him.  His lines are shaming her, but his objective is to make her love him. 


Work with A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM - blocking 
Christian – Oberon
Ayana – Titania
With fairies as extras


Wednesday, March 18th: 



Carnival!
Actors stand in a circle. One of the actors steps into the circle and begins a movement and a sound which s/he teaches to each actor in the circle.  When all actors are doing the sound and the movement,  then another actor steps into the circle to teach a new sound and movement until everyone in the circle is doing the new sound and movement. This continues until everyone in the circle has taught everyone else a new sound and movement and the sound and movement has worked itself around the circle. 


Statues:

Four actors are on stage. One of the actors becomes the sculptor and begins to sculpt the actors into poses like sculptures. Once the “sculptor” is finished, the actors then begin an improv based on their poses. 

Class breaks into their scenes. Fellow students block the scenes.

The students then present scenes to the class.

Thursday, March 19th: 


 5th Period:
Going away party for Mr. Fox.
Card and cupcakes and cookies

The Echo Poem
Using Soroyan’s poem, but any poem can do, the poem is broken into lines. Give the poem as a whole to the class. Read it aloud. Then give the poem, divided into lines,  to the class and have them read the poem silently to themselves and write a response to each line.  After one person reads a line from the poem, someone else reads his/her first reaction to the line. Continue reading the lines of the poem.





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