Tuesday 21 August 2012

Agenda:

1. Get names of those who participated in Invisible Theatre
2. Blob
3. Emotion party
4. Mime it down the Alley
5. Exercise 8: The River (Bogart and Landau, 58)
6. Exercise 3: The Obstacle Course (B & L, 77)
7. Preparation time for Sonnet performance
8. Run through of Sonnet performance with suggestions and notes
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Fifth Day of IB Theatre

Blob was so fun to do. One or two people start out in the middle and stretch out to touch someone else in the room. When someone is touched by the 'blob', they become part of the blob and, staying connected, must try to get others to join the blob as well. Those of use who had yet to be touched by the blob frantically ran around the periphery, scrambling over desks to avoid the blob. Some saw the inevitability of being dragged in by the increasing mass of the blob and became part of it. This exercise showed that the bigger a group or ensemble, it is easier to reach out to others to work together as evinced by the total succumb of the escapees to become part of the blob.

Preparation for the Sonnet performance taught me a lot about self expression. As Ms. Ashley helped to clarify the meaning of some of the lines of the sonnet, we were able to comprehend the story of the poem. Putting that into body motion, though, was more difficult. What we thought would portray a certain scene wouldn't cut it and we had to find other ways to make it more prominent. Ms. Ashley helped a lot because she had many ideas of what we could do to portray the emotions in each line. 

**Side note: videos of this week to come later on**