August 31, 2015 - September 3, 2015 Weekly Agenda

Monday, August 31st: 

Final performances of the remaining“Three Scenes and a Phrase”

Phrase: “Good Question”

Xochitl

Karla

Elizabeth

1st Scene:

Sleeping student awakened by teacher.

2^nd Scene:

Annoying restaurant customers and a put upon waitress

3^rd Scene:

Funny parody of students telling Ms. Bridges the title of their scene “Good Question”.

Begin reading “The Masque of the Red Death, read the first scene! 

Tuesday, September 1st: 

Read "The Masque of the Red Death"

Wednesday, September 2nd: 

Read "The Masque of the Red Death"

Audtions:
3:15 - 5:00

Thursday, September 3rd: 

Theatre Games:
Walk-about
Sense Memory
"Meet Mr. Death!" 

 

Audtions:
5th Period
After School Auditions: 
3:15 - 5:30

Friday, September 4th: 

No School!!!!!!

August 24, 2015 - August 28, 2015 Intro to Theatre

 Monday, August 24th: 

Continue to work on Three Scenes and a Phrase

Tuesday, August 25th: 

Shortened day.
Assembly for 11th Graders. Half of class is gone. 
Theatre games:
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1 in 4 and 4 in 1:

Serena, Irene, Justin, Pamela – awful! No energy! No effort!

Emotional cocktail: Anton, Julia, Roger, Katia, Serena

Emotional cocktail: Pamela, Justin, Gus, Franklin, Whitney

Wednesday, August 26th: 

Discussion of Argonautika and The Masque of the Red Death
Passed out Hollywood Bowl Info
Break into groups to rehearse
Worked with Karla, Elizabeth and Arianna

Thursday, August 27th: 

Break into groups to rehearse
Begin to present!
Phrase: "What do you mean?"
 Gus, Elizabeth, Emily, Pamela
Gus broke his hand and is going to see the doctor.
Gus - patient
Elizabeth - sister
Emily - nurse
Pamela - doctor
Pamela good, but too soft. Very focused, and committed.
Scene over long, with no beats and no emotional variation. Kids, except for Pamela,  phoning it in.  But could not hear Pamela.

Friday, August 28th: 

Presentations:
Phrase: "Where's the cap?'
Ricardo: flat affect, broken winged military salute.
Tanny - Good!
Serena - Hard to understand
Scene 1: Siblings grounded because "goody-two-shoes" squealed on them for stealing money from Mom's purse. They conspire to get back at her by giving her a shaken bottle of coke which erupts when she opens it and spills all over her important school project.

Scene 2: Kids at a baseball game. Ricardo bored with the game, but Tanny and Serena excited. Tanny gets upset when she loses her beloved baseball cap.

Phrase: "I hate you!"
Chynna, Christian, Whitney, Miriam

1st Scene: Girls are about to leave for a party but are stopped by their parents due to their inappropriate dress. Funny!
Chynna - Mom
Christian - Dad
Whitney - Bratty daughter
Miriam - Bratty daughter

2nd Scene: Friends posted bad pic of her on instagram. She gets back at them by telling a crush that Whitney likes him.
 Christian - Crush

3rd Scene: Chynna gossips about Miriam being a slut and having "STD".

Christian - Chynna's boyfriend
Whitney - friend

Look at Bridges
Jasmine, Justin, Katia, Luiza
 Students torment teacher.
Justin - teacher; broke character by smiling.
 Jasmine - good student

Funny. Bit between Justin and Jasmine actually funny.
Kids in woods scared by bear.
Jasmine - bear
Justin - crept on stage at odd moment and hid behind the desk
Katia and Luiza - good
Not organized; kind of sloppy

Classroom situation:
Bridges drinking her "tea".
Justin - teacher
Jasmine, Katia, Luiza - students 

August 17, 2015 - Auguest 21, 2015

Wednesday, August 19th: 

Discussion of production of plays this semester.
Questionnaire given to students regarding their interest in doing plays.
Assigned groups for Three Scenes and a Phrase

Thursday, August 20th: 

Class broke into groups to work on scenes.

Worked with:

Jassmine, Justin, Katia, Luiza, Tyler,

Phrase: “Look at Bridges”

Kids are out of control, throwing spit balls.

Dramatic Analysis Sheet

Scene Work - Dramatic Analysis Sheet

Name: 

Play or Scene: 

Circumstances: 

Setting (Time and Place):

Scene Partner: 

Relationship with the other character: 

Scene Objective: (What do I want my scene partner to do, think, feel, or understand?)

Super Objective: (What is my goal for the entire play?) 

(What would reaching this goal actually look like?)

Scene Obstacle: (What gets in the way?) 

Physical Actions: (In the scene, what is my character literally, physically doing?)

Possible Tactics: (Must use verbs. How will you pursue your objective from beat to beat? For example: flirt, chastise, tease, cheer up, humiliate, enlighten, teach, etc.)

Synopsis of Play: 

Synopsis of Scene: