Monday 20 August 2012

Agenda:

Monday: we are continuing with exercises that build ensemble and trust. We are also focusing more on the use of sound and movement

1. Share experience of Invisible Theatre
   a) Explain the purpose - pg 286 of handout
2. Warm up with isolations - neck, shoulders, ribcage, hips, spine
3. Image Walks 3.3 (Wangh, 92)
4. Calling exercise 2.18 (Swados, 49)
5. Slow motion study 1.3 (Wangh, 21)
6. Changing rhythms (Boal handout, 93)
7. Sound and movement in groups 3.38 (Swados, 49)

For Thursday: Learn your Shakespeare sonnet
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Fourth Day of IB Theatre:

Invisible Theatre went off without a hitch! Caleb Kang and I participated in this activity together during our 5th period Theory of Knowledge class with Ms. Hoppe and we fooled everyone during our show and tell about a personal object.
Action One: Walk into the class reserved, slightly annoyed. Request teacher to present first in order to get the presentation over with.
Action Two: When presenting, be down and haughty. A friend (Caleb) coughs in the front of the class. React by sighing very loudly and rolling eyes at the friend giving the "stink eye". Continue to pause and glare at the coughing friend every time he 'interrupts'.
Action Three: State that I can no longer proceed because of the constant interruptions (rudely) and return (stomp) to the seat, making a point of being annoyed and aggravated.
Eventually, we had to relent and tell the class what this was about because they were in too big of a shock. We felt so proud because we had succeeded, although it didn't exactly address a social issue that Boal initially intended it to.