Agenda:
1. Warm Up
2. People pictures - see handout
3. Mirror in pairs - Spolin page 75
4. Rehearse your sonnet presentation for 20 minutes
5. Class gathers as an audience for performance
6. Critiquing your performance - handout (due Monday)
7. Handout on the origins of theatre
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Sixth Day of IB Theatre:
The people pictures were a lot of fun to work with. We each received a printed picture of a person with clear status and certain lifestyle. After looking at our pictures discreetly, we went around in a circle and said a line the person in our picture would say. Some who had the same pictures recognized each other's characters from what the line revealed about the person in the picture. It took more insight and analysis to think what this person would say, how he/she would behave, and the backstory of the person.
Performing the sonnet as a group was twice as fun as performing it. Though we only had such a short, limited time to rehearse our performance, I was proud that we could work as a team to demonstrate what Shakespeare had written in his love poem. As I saw other groups, I saw points that we could have considered because it was effective and other points less effective that we all learned from as a whole class. I learned its not enough to change inclination of voice and not body movement, or to keep the body movement at a minimal. Exaggeration is key when trying to display a certain image on stage.
**Videos of sonnets to come later on**
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