June 5, 2017 - June 9, 2017 Weekly Agenda for Acting Class

 

 Monday, June 5th:

Scenes yet to be performed:

Polina: Dracula

Amy: High School Boyfriend – not worked with yet

Ty: Jumpers

Jay-nice: Blind Date

Angela: High School Boyfriend – not worked with yet

Josh:  High School Boyfriend – not worked with yet

Khalah – Blind Date

Worked with:

Polina

Dracula

Extra Credit: Precious

Jumpers

Grace and Ty

Thursday, June 8th:  
Finals: 

Work with:

Jumpers

Grace and Ty

High School Boyfriend:

Amy, Angela, Joshua

At nine, if Angela is not here, then Jay-Nice will step in for her to do the scene

Already worked with:

The Blind-Date

Jay-Nice with Nush (extra credit)

Rehearse from 8:30 to 9:00

9:30 – 10:09

Performances: 

Jumpers

Grace and Ty

The Blind Date

Jay-nice and Nush

High School Boyfriend

Amy, Angela, Joshua

 

May 29, 2017 - June 2, 2017 Weekly Agenda for Acting Class

 Monday, May 29th: 

No school!

Tuesday, May 30th: 

 Worked with:  

No Exit

Nush, Shania, 

Germain - extra credit

Created schedule for the acting finals.

Wednesday, May 31^st: 
Performances of Final Scenes: 

1. Blythe Spirit

Cooper, Shania

2. The Less Than Human Club
Ariel, Caitlyn 

3. Playing for Time

Luiza, Nona

Thursday, June 1^st: 
Performance of Final Scenes: 

 1. The Owl and the Pussy Cat
 Abbey, Germaine

 3. True West
Jack, Royer 

4. Wanda's Visit
Grace, Jose, Valorie

 

Friday, June 2^nd: 
Performance of Final Scenes:  

1.  Freaks
Daylen, Lindsay 

2. No Exit
Nush, Shania
E/C: Germain 

3. The Disappearance of Daniel Hand
Ariana, Precious  

Grace and Ty will perform Jumpers  for Ty's final performance. Grace will do it for extra credit.  

May 22, 2017 - May 26, 2017 Rehearsals for Acting Finals

Tuesday, May 23rd:

Guest Artist: Jack
Pam Awards Voting!!!!

Jack worked with Ariel and Caitlyn

Final Presentation:
Irene Short - Music Lesson 
Turned in her acting notebook

Worked with:
Wanda's Visit
Grace, Jose, Valorie

True West
Jack
Royer  

Thursday, May 24th: 
 
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Scenes I haven’t worked with:

The Disappearance of Daniel Hand

Ariana and Precious

High School Boyfriend

Angela, Amy, and Joshua

Less Than Human Club

Ariel and Caitlyn

Assigned Daylen a monologue – Heart Ache

Worked with:

Disappearance of Daniel Hand

Ariana and Precious

Less Than Human Club  

Ariel and Caitlyn 

 

May 15, 2017 - May 19, 2017

 Monday, May 15th: 

Special Two Hour Block Schedule This Week:

Worked with:

Wanda’s Visit

Grace

Jose

Valorie

Blythe Spirit

Shania

Cooper

The Owl and the Pussycat

Abbey

Germain

Jack worked with Wanda’s Visit also

Jack worked with Anton on This is Our Youth

Wednesday, May 17th: 
Special Two Hour Block Schedule This Week:

Worked with The Owl and the Pussycat
Abbey and Germain

Jack worked with:
No Exit 
Nush and Shania

Amber Florin worked with:
Playing for Time 
Luiza and Nona

Worked with Wanda's Visit
Jose, Grace, and Valorie

Jack worked with:
Speed-the-Plow
Khalah, Jaynice

Amber worked with:
True West 
Royer and Jack

 Friday, May 19th: 

Playing for Time – Continue working with them on Tuesday

Luiza and Nona 

Jack worked with:

True West 

Jack and Royer

The Owl and the Pussycat
Abbey
Germain 

 

 

 
 

May 8, 2017 - May 12, 2017 Weekly Agenda for Acting Class

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Worked with Wanda’s Visit

Valorie and Jose

Final Presentations of Christopher Durang:

Beyond Therapy

Scene 3

Shania and Germain

Critiques

Khalah and Jay-nice did not like Blind Date.  I gave them Speed-the-Plow, Act 1, Scene 1

List of Final Scenes:
Ariel Carreno: The Less than Human Club
Cooper Couch: Blythe Spirit 
Ariana Covarrubias: The Disappearance of Daniel Hand
Abbey Cuevas: Nightswim
Polina Dubkova: The Seagull
Precious Duran: The Disappearance of Daniel Hand
Armine Fesilyan: High School Boyfriend
Jose Flores: Wanda's Visit
Lindsay Guillen: Freak
Nush Hakobyan: No Exit 
Luiza Hovhannisyan: Playing for Time
Nona Hovhannisyan: Playing for Time 
Ty Howze: Freak
Hakob Kachanyan: True West
Jaynice Kimble: Blind Date
Grace Lyde: Wanda's Visit
Germain Lyde: The Owl and the Pussycat 
Angela Perez: High School Boyfriend 
Royer Perez: True West 
Joshua Ramirez: High School Boyfriend 
Valorie Reyes: Wanda's Visit
Khalah Riley: Blind Date 
Caitlyn Salvador: The Less than Human Club
Irene Short: Music Lesson
Shania Vista: Blythe Spirit

Monday, May 8th: 
Pass out assigned scenes
Everyone up on feet and reading scripts
Work with:
Beyond Therapy 
Shania, Germaine

Tuesday, May 9th: 
Warm-up: 
Write out script! 
Run through scenes on feet three times
Answer the following prompt:  
Describe the setting of the scene in detail! 
Work with:
The Funeral Parlor
Ty and Caitlyn

Went over scenes to determine every student had a scene, a script, and a partner

Passed out new scenes to those students who didn’t have one

Waves: Jackie and Michelle

The Owl and the Pussycat:  Germain and Shania

Went over assignments, and daily agenda

Worked with:

The Funeral Parlor

Ty and Caitlyn

Wednesday, May 10th: 
Warm-up: 
Write out script! 
Run through scenes on feet three times
Who-What-Where-When-Why Journal
Go through your entire script and answer every question about every person, animal, object, location, event, incident you or your partner refer to in text. This is on going.

Work with:
Beyond Therapy 
Shania and German

Thursday, May 11th: 
Warm-up: 
Write out script! 
Run-through scenes on feet three times
Continue working on the "Who-What-Where-When-Why" Journal 

Work with: 
Beyond Therapy
Nush and Jack 



Funeral Parlor - Allowed to perform in class; Ty had after school conflict
Ty  and Caitlyn 

Beyond Therapy  - Did not perform today
 Shania and Germain  

After School from 3:30 to 4:30
Performance of DMV TYRANT 
Ariana and Khalah 

Friday, May 12th: 

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Worked with Wanda’s Visit

Valorie and Jose

Final Presentations of Christopher Durang:

Beyond Therapy

Scene 3

Shania and Germain

Critiques

Khalah and Jay-nice did not like Blind Date.  I gave them Speed-the-Plow, Act 1, Scene 1

May 1, 2017 - May 5, 2017 Weekly Agenda

 

Monday, May 1st: 

Many people absent today due to field trip and/or AP tests

Worked with:

Beyond Therapy

Jack and Nush

Yendy made copies of scripts

Scenes for Finals: 

Ten-Minute Scenes for Junior High School Students

“The High School Boyfriend”  

Amy, Angela, Joshua

Nightswim

Rosie and Christian

Page 175 – 181

Hope and Jessyka

Playing for Time
 Luiza and Nona

Tuesday, May 2nd:  

Worked with:
Beyond Therapy

Jack and Nush

  Wednesday, May 3rd: 

Worked with Beyond Therapy

Shania and Germain

Thursday, May 4th: 
Actors worked on their scenes:

Passed out scripts

Worked with:

“DMV Tyrant”

Ariana and Kalah 

Friday, May 5th:  

Actors worked on their scenes:

The Funeral Parlor: Ty and Caitlyn 

Wanda's Visit: Grace, Jose, Valorie - not working

Beyond Therapy: Shania and Germain

Beyond Therapy:  Nush and Jack 

Passed out the following scenes to actors for their final: 

Playing for Time:  Nona and Luiza

Available Scenes: 

Emily 

Glengarry Glen Ross

Independence 

Sandi's Agreement

Speed-the-Plow

True West 

 

 
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April 24, 2017 - April 28, 2017 Weekly Agenda

Monday, April 24th:
Clean up the dressing room, the back stage area, and take props back to the prop room, and the costumes back to the costume shop.
Discuss the rest of the semester.

Tuesday, April 25th:  

Reflection on Your Performance

Please answer the following questions in complete sentences and email your typed reflection to me at jkatbridge2004@gmail.com

1.     How did you approach your role? Give at least three specific steps that you took in creating your role.

2.     How did you approach the rehearsal process?

3.     Describe a typical rehearsal.

4.     Did everyone work to his or her potential during the rehearsal?  If the actors didn’t, then what could have been done to get everyone working more productively?

5.     What was the biggest issue that you faced during the rehearsal process?

6.     What was the most pleasant aspect to the rehearsal process?

7.     Which performance did you think was better? Why?

8.     What could you have done to make your performances better?

9.     Which performance did you think was not as successful? Why?

10. What could have been done to make the performances better?

11. What was the best aspect of the production?

5^th Period Durang Scenes to Be Performed on May 4^th:

Beyond Therapy – Shania and Germain

DMV Tyrant – Ariana and Khalah

The Funeral Parlor -  Ty and Caitlyn

Beyond Therapy – Jack and Nush

May 11th: 

Wanda’s Visit – Grace, Jose, Valorie
Nina in the Morning - Elizabeth, Montserrat, Celeste, Bree-Anna
Beyond Therapy - Dale and Carter 

All others must find a scene and a scene partner or a monologue from a published play of a significant magnitude, to begin work on their final presentation.

 
Wednesday, April 26th: 
I am absent today. Students should either find scenes for their final or rehearse their scenes. 

Thursday, April 27th: 
Guest speaker: Victoria Curtis 

Friday, April 28th: 
Dance Field Trip 
Remaining students must work on their scenes 

March 27, 2017 - March 31, 2017 Weekly Agenda for Acting Class

 Monday, March 27th:

Worked on Wanda’s Visit – Valorie, Jose, Grace

Visit by Constance Pang from “Young Arts” and “Spotlight"


Tuesday, March 28th:  
Worked on Actor's Nightmare
Blocked up to page 362 - 
Henry, " Two nights together had these gentlemen...."   


Wednesday, March 29th: 
Finished blocking “The Actor’s Nightmare”

Anton, Shania, Abbey, Cooper, Ty, Luiza,

Assistant director: Nona

Everybody else rehearsing their scenes

Thursday, March 30th: 
Continue working on Wanda's Visit 
Valorie, Jose, Grace

Friday, March 31st: 
No school today in observance of Caesar Chavez' birthday

 

March 13, 2017 - March 17, 2017 Weekly Agenda for Acting Class

Monday, March 13th: 

Guest speaker - Eleanor Owens

Tuesday, March 14th: 
Watch The Glass Menagerie

Wednesday, March 15th: 

Finish watching the last fifteen minutes of The Glass Menagerie

Discussion of the film, Tennessee Williams, etc.

Acting Exercise:

Meisner – Yes/No

 
Thursday, March 16th: 

Warm-up:

Walk about

Pair up: Yes/No! MeisnerActing Exercise

Read The Actor’s Nightmare

Luiza, Shania, Anton, Abbey, Athon, Roger

Did not finish

Friday, March 17th: 
 Many students absent from class to prepare for dance and singing performances for 6th period assembly. 

Finished reading the script, The Actor’s Nightmare

Watched the youtube.com video of a college production of The Actor’s Nightmare

March 6, 2017 - March 10, 2017 Weekly Agenda

 Monday, March 6th:

Watched A Streetcar Named Desire

Discussion

Watched A Streetcar Named Desire

Discussion: death versus life - Thanatos versus Eros

Life = sex, passion, art
Thanatos = death
Eros = love/sex 
Life and art are in a state of tension between life and death/thanatos and eros. 

Belle Reve means beautiful dream 

Belle Reve was shattered and destroyed by death

Blanche Dubois tried to find life through desire 

The streetcar which took Blanche to Stella's apartment in the French Quarter in New Orleans  was called "Desire." 

Stanley giving Blanche a check for bus fare back to Auriol, Mississippi, was a death warrant - only death and humiliation awaited her there. 

Tuesday, March 7th: 

Watched The Glass Menagerie
Discussion 

Wednesday, March 8th: 
Watched The Glass Menagerie 

Thursday, March 9th: 

Theatre Games:

“Emotional Cocktail”

Watch The Glass Menagerie; stopped at 28:46

Friday, March 10th: 
Shortened day today.
Watch The Glass Menagerie - up to 1:02

 


  

February 6, 2017 - February 10, 2017 Weekly Agenda

Monday, February 6th:

Work on Grace Lyde’s piece of “Sandra Bland”

Three people: Narrator, Sandra Bland, Cop

Shania has already blocked the scene

Rehearsed the “Sandra Bland” scene

Recorded it on phone for archival purposes

Polina needs pictures that will be used at the beginning to be sent to her for editing

Tuesday, February 7th: 

Worked on “Sandra Bland” and “Charles Kinsley”tableaux staging

But we decided to do “Philando Castile” instead of “Charles Kinsley”

Grace Lyde will write it tonight

Wednesday, February 8th:  

Grace read her scene on Tamir Rice

Shania is directing it

Luiza is assistant director – taking notes

Jose – playing the guy in the gazebo

Nona – playing Tamir Rice

Jose and Royer - cops

Tamir Rice:

It is a cold snowy day in the park. Tamir Rice, is a twelve year old boy, playing in the park with a black toy gun with the orange tip removed. A man is sitting in the park’s gazebo.  We hear the 911 phone call reporting there is a man in the park with a gun. We hear the sound of a car pulling up and two car door slamming.  Tamir jumps back when he hears the car drive up.  We see two men – undercover cops – jump  on stage with guns drawn.  They fire. Tamir Rice crumples in slow-mo.

Due tomorrow: 

Tell everyone to compile their music file and the list where the music should go in the line-up

Thursday,  February 9th:

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Shania and Grace worked on “Sandra Bland”, “Tamir Rice”, “Philando Castile”

Narrator: Abbey

Actors: Nona, Jose, Roger, Anton, Luiza, Ariel, Germain

Luiza - Assistant

Friday, February 10th:

Participants: Grace, Shania, Cooper, Jose, Royer

Actors: Royer, Cooper, Abbey, Luiza, Nona,

Ideas: Khalah – brought in the idea for “Cultural Appropriation”, “The  

Writers: Grace

Staging: Shania

           

Monday, December 12, 2016 - Friday, December 16, 2016 Agenda

Monday, December 12th: 

Worked with Germaine on Butterflies are Free for his acting class final.

Luiza performed her self-written monologue:
Nona was helper; played her mother.
Luiza is angry that her family uprooted her in her senior year of school in New York with her music lessons - her piano and music are the only things she cares about - to move to Colorado for her father's new job as professor at a university.

Wednesday, December 14th: 

Work on your scene BECAUSE ALL OF YOU HAVE ALREADY PRESENTED YOUR SELF-WRITTEN MONOLOGUES

Tomorrow:

Jose and Jack: True West

Germaine: Butterflies Are Free

Cooper and Grace: Wicked

Ty and Lindsay: “Death’s Wages”

Khalah and Jay-Nice: Summer Brave

Nona, Luiza, and Nush: “Betraying the Blues”

Ariel, Precious: “Mother for Hire”

Josh: Convicts

Amy and Angela: “Hanging Out”

Caitlyn and Ariana: “Something Happened Here”

Abbey and Julia: The Glass Menagerie

Rubric for Your Class Reflection:

Must be typed

Should be two pages

You may submit it in class tomorrow, Thursday, December 15^th, or e-mail it to jkatbridge2004@gmail.com

This two page paper should be a reflection on your work in this class over the past four months.

Please list in detail what you did in this class, including your work on the Halloween shows; Peter and the Starcatcher; your self-written monologue – the initial presentation, the first performance, and the final performance; and your final scene.

Please reflect on what you learned from your work in this class and on the shows. What were your successes? What were your failures? What did you learn about yourself in this class?

Thursday, December 15th: 
Final presentations of scenes today! 

Jose and Jack: True West

Jay-Nice and Khalah: Summer Braves

Grace and Cooper: Wicked

 Germaine: Butterflies are Free (Monologue)

Irene Short: Pantomime

Josh: Convicts (Monologue)

Amy and Angela: "Hanging Out" 

Luiza, Nona, Nush: "Betraying the Blues" 

Polina: Self-Written Monologue; character is in charge of body assignments for souls

Valorie: Self-Written Monologue: 

Ariana and Caitlyn: Something Happened Here

Abbey and Julia: The Glass Menagerie 

Ty and Lindsay:  

 

Monday, December 5, 2016 - Friday, December 9, 2016 Agenda for Acting Class

Monday, December 5th:
Your research paper is due today.
Clean-up the dressing room
Put the props away
Separate the costumes into dirty and clean piles
Hang up the "clean" costumes
Take the dirty costumes to the cleaners


Tuesday, December 6th: 
 

Presented final monologues:

1.     Hakob  - Fedex employee tied up by drug thugs who think he is a currier for a drug lord; they wind up shooting and killing him. Somewhat comic.

2.     Ariel – nice guy who is trying to collect rent money from a manipulative “friend”. The nice guy has a bit of a breakdown who confesses that he lives in a slum, and his wife, who has a better job than he, has filed divorce papers against him.

3.     Kaitlyn – sweet girl who has bought gifts for her landlady who would rather have her move out than be giving gifts to her. The landlady rudely rejects her gifts and starts berating her for wasting her money and demands she moves out immediately.

4.     Precious – spoiled brat who has been grounded and her mom has cut off her credit cards. The brat doesn’t know this until she goes to an expensive store and tries to buy some luxury items. She throws a fit over the long lines, the slow cashier (played by helper Grace) and of course, being told by the cashier that her card has been declined.

Wednesday, December 7th: 

 

Students who have finished their research papers and/or their final presentations of their self-written monologues must find a scene and a partner for their acting final. 

Students must present the titles of their final scenes and the names of their scene partners today:

Something Happened Here – Caitlyn and Ariana

Wicked (Scene 7 and 8) – Grace and Cooper

True West -  Jose and Jack
"Hanging Out" - Amy and Angela
The Glass Menagerie - Julia and  Abby

Thursday, December 8th: 

Clean up of the Thespian Christmas Party

Class break into scenes to rehearse

Germain – “Butterflies Are Free”

Friday, December 9th:  

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Students pair up with scene partners and rehearse their scenes.

Eric Bumaty gave brief presentation to students regarding film project.

 

November 28, 2016 - December 2, 2016 Weekly Agenda for Acting Class

Monday, November 28th:
Rehearse scenes from Peter and the Starcatcher 

Tuesday, November 29th:
Rehearse scenes from Peter and the Starcatcher 

Wednesday, November 30th:
Rehearse scenes from Peter and the Starcatcher 

Thursday, December 1st:
In the auditorium, rehearse Peter and the Starcatcher 

Friday, December 2nd:
Rehearse scenes from Peter and the Starcatcher 

November 14, 2016 - November 18, 2016 Weekly Agenda for Acting Class

 Monday, November 14th:

Research paper:

Khalah, Jay-Nice, Germain, Lindsay, Nona

Character Presentations

Asked questions about who the characters are; where are they, who are they talking to, what do they want, what is central conflict?

Initial Presentations of scenes

Ariel: “Greg”, an apartment manager in New York; soft touch, trying to get the rent from a tenant in the apartment building but guy always manages to talk his way out of paying it.  “Greg’s” wife is threatening to leave him and if he doesn’t get the rent from this tenant he will be fired and evicted, so he’s a little stressed.

Ariana: Jalissa, a twenty-four year old college student who is auditioning for a film as a sort of a lark. The director is very short with her because she went up on her lines.

Precious: Jasmine, a sixteen-year old girl who is very spoiled. She is at an exclusive store to buy something expensive for her birthday, but she has already maxed out her credit card.

Amy: Helper. She is the sales clerk at the expensive store.

Cast from Peter and the Star Catcher: Learn lines; run lines from play

Tuesday, November 15th: 

Peter and the Star Catcher actors are working on lines.

Students who are working on research papers are in the library

Students who are working on monologues are writing and working on monologues today.

Nush and Jack are working with Dr. Sunnah on the set

Luiza is working with leadership

People who are doing research papers:
Khalah, Jay-Nice, Nona, Josh, Germain, Lindsay

Passed out the research paper rubric, the list of approved topics for the research paper, and the requirements for the research paper and important dates.  This information is also posted on the blog.

Wednesday, November 16th: 
Continued with initial presentations: 
Jose: retired Iraqi war vet suffering from PTSD; thirty-two years old. Trying to connect his with his four year old daughter. Talking to his little girl in the kitchen after fixing her a sandwich, which she doesn't want. He is filled with feelings of helplessness, and rage, and grief. 

Caitlyn: Chantal; twenty-eight years old; struggling with jobs; living with aunt. Comes home with a gift for the aunt who rejects the gift because she thinks she is spending her money recklessly. Wants her to move out. 

Cooper: Beverly Aire who was raised poor but became an instagram sensation and is now very rude and arrogant. On phone while ordering some coffee. The barista is taking too long and he insults her and tries to get her fired.  NO! Redo!  

Other students are in the library working on the research paper. 

Other students are polishing the writing on the monologue and rehearsing.  

Thursday, November 17th: 

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Students’ Topics for Their Research Papers:

Amy: Elizabethan

Lindsay: Set design

Nona: Kabuki Theatre

Jay-Nice:

German: Noh Theatre

Angela: William Shakespeare

Khalah: Bertolt Brecht

Josh: Commedia Dell Arte costumes

Initial Presentations:

Abbey: nervous bride having pre-wedding jitters. Calls mom for assurance. Goes outside her hotel room to look for her maid of honor, discovers her in her groom’s hotel room.

Cooper: Lost another job; alcoholic and mom was an alcoholic. Blamed for the death of his baby brother. Has a psychotic schizophrenic breakdown.

 By tomorrow: must have a typed monologue; bio

 Final Presentations:

Valerie: different from the first presentation; monologue not typed; Having a nervous breakdown; locked in bathroom contemplating suicide

By tomorrow: must have typed monologue; long in-depth bio; suicide letter.

Ariana: college student goes on a film audition on a lark. Gets in an argument with the rude director.

Tomorrow Nush and Jack will do their final presentations.

Friday, November 18th: 
Final Presentations: 
Ty - "Gilbert Willis" a book store clerk who just wants to read books. Annoyed at customers who interrupt his reading.  Funny!

Nush - "Wendy" is a high school student who had to do credit recovery in adult school in order to graduate with her friends. The counselor is telling her she is missing Algebra 2 and cannot return to school. 

Grace - Southern genius girl who is trying to write an essay on Lewis Carroll for her English class is being playfully teased by a spirit  - "Casey" - who wants her to stop what she's doing and play with her. "Casey" takes over the keyboard and writes a brilliant final paragraph on her essay. Grace's last lines are "Now, how to rewrite it so the teacher will believe a ten-year old wrote it. Funny and clever! 

Abbey - A nervous bride the night before her wedding calls her mother for comfort. At last calmed, she is walking down the hotel hallway and sees her maid of honor coming out of her fiance's hotel room. 

On Monday, November 28th: Ariel, Precious, and Caitlyn will do their final presentations.