Today’s theatre class was a productive one. Mr Patterson started the class by talking about the link that he put on Daymap that held all the possible Elizabethan duos we could eventually perform. I tried to find it, however was unsuccessful because I’m rather technologically challenged. Then we got up as a class and started our warm up with a classic game of ‘shake it out’ which hurt my face. I found myself rather confused when the circle started playing a game that I didn’t learn due to my absence the previous class. Thus I kind of got the gist of it as the game went on, what I gathered was that it’s an Elizabethan/Shakespearean version of SAH.
While we were in the circle, Mr Patterson handed out slips of paper with different lines on them from a variety of Shakespeare plays. We took turns reading them out, mine was “Et Tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar.” We then had five minutes to think of actions to our lines and hence we each performed our fatal death scene. For my death, I wasn’t entirely sure how Julius Caesar died, but I interpreted like he was on the edge of a cliff and stabbed himself in the heart and fell off the cliff. After we all performed individually, we placed ourselves in the drama works space in our death positions, then one after another died, whilst Mr Patterson filmed it.
We then got into partnerships, my partner was Maggie and we had a brief discussion of which Shakespeare skit we wanted to perform. We decided on a witches scene from Macbeth, because it’s something different and seeing as though Raine wasn’t here today, she is going to be our third witch, weather she likes it or not. Mr Patterson proceeded us to the library where we read though some Macbeth and watched a few YouTube videos.
While we were in the circle, Mr Patterson handed out slips of paper with different lines on them from a variety of Shakespeare plays. We took turns reading them out, mine was “Et Tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar.” We then had five minutes to think of actions to our lines and hence we each performed our fatal death scene. For my death, I wasn’t entirely sure how Julius Caesar died, but I interpreted like he was on the edge of a cliff and stabbed himself in the heart and fell off the cliff. After we all performed individually, we placed ourselves in the drama works space in our death positions, then one after another died, whilst Mr Patterson filmed it.
We then got into partnerships, my partner was Maggie and we had a brief discussion of which Shakespeare skit we wanted to perform. We decided on a witches scene from Macbeth, because it’s something different and seeing as though Raine wasn’t here today, she is going to be our third witch, weather she likes it or not. Mr Patterson proceeded us to the library where we read though some Macbeth and watched a few YouTube videos.