12th September

Performance Workshop

We started of by reading through our assignment brief, our brief for this unit is 'Self '

We then wrote a paragraph about ourself and about our hopes and dreams. I wrote about how when I leave I'd like to move to London and act in TV shows and hopefully a movie one day. 

We then had to walk on stage and find a space and read our monologues out to the audience. We then did it again but this time would had to sit down in a pose that reflected our monologue. I choose to sit down looking off into space, as it reflected me daydreaming about my dream to become a professional actress. 

We then had to pick a song to use as stimulus that reflected our monologue. I chose Born to be Somebody by Justin Bieber, because this song is very personal to me and also reflected my monologue perfectly. The song is about knowing that you are born to be somebody and that as long as you believe in your dream no one can stop you. I think this song would work well with the show as it not only reflects my story but it also reflects other peoples as a lot off other people want to be an actress. 

We then watched a Physical Theatre piece which we used as stimulus. We were then given a topic and a location and we had to create a physical theatre piece. We were given Bullying on a mountain. In the physical theatre piece we watched they touched on the subject of homosexuality. We decided taking into consideration what's happening with the current Gay marriage laws that we would have 2 lesbians being bullied. I decided that it would be effective if they had no support at all other than each other. This not only shows that anyone can bully you or discourage your beliefs, but it also shows how strong love is, even if it is between 2 people of the same gender.

I played the teacher, who to there face was supportive however as I showed them out of the room I used my facial expression to show my disgust. When we were not in character we played mountains. We did this by putting our arms above our head into a point. This shows that they are on a mountain range.