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