In this lesson tish talk to use about what is meant by feminism
Wertenbaker who wrote the love of the nightingale was a famous feminist, she has spoken about being `silenced` because of the popularity and dominance of men within the industry
we spoken about where women are not treated fairly
for example we came up with a few countries that still suffer from this still for example Africa/ America/ cultures, china- 1 child rule, they preferred the baby to be boys so they could work and keep the name going within there families.
Wertenbaker- silences women but she shows the women standing up for themselves/ disempowerment- not allowing the men to rule them.
Philomele is a feminist because she shows what happened to her and she still try's to communicate even thought she hasn't got a tongue and she still will show her face after being raped as she wants to show what really happened to her. Philomele doesn't give up she carry's on trying to prove them all a point and uses things to show what happened to her.
She shows that women are just as capable as men and what a man can do a female can to (Feminist) she shows this throughout the script when she shows the relationship between the captain and Philomele. At first the captain wont speak to Philomele but then he does because he starts getting feeling for Philomele, but just because Philomele is a female and unprotected he didn't really want to know, but because Philomele was a female he starts flirting with her and allows this to happen as he talks back to Philomele in a flirty way. This shows that the captain though he was to important to be speaking to her and he knew that if he got found with her then he would get into big trouble.
Also through out the play we see feminism - male figures in the play have more dominants than the women.
We see this when tereus is speaking to the nurse then after she finishes talking he says "terrible advice". This shows that tereus doesn't listen to women.
also in the play tereus says "don't pity her" this also shows that he don't pity women as he don't think anything of them he just uses them as a thing rather than a women.
Through out the play after Tereus rapes Philomele he try's to hide it saying it was her fault that he did it. this also interlinks with the dominates of men.
In this lesson we also looked at what was meant by (male dominants) I came up with the words
rebellious- there not bothered the males in the play they just rule women especially tereus.
power- over the women especially the men.
pressure- the men pressure the women, as seen when tereus rapes Philomele. tereus makes out that what ever he says goes, what anyone else has to say he don't care about. he's always in the right.
The other things I found interesting about this particular lesson, talking about feminism was that we don't really come to terms with it like we know its happening all around the world but nothing is been done to prevent it as I think the reason for this is that people who deal with all this stuff ither believe it or they just don't want to stand up and say listen that wrong we should all have the same rights, but when we think about it like that do mean have a different role than women, or the other way around, nobody has ever talked about this politically because if they did then maybe something could have been done already.
However the things I learnt from this lesson was that women are definitely treated unfairly to men and some men think its right. many people would argue the fact that if a man is married to a women then what the man says goes in the relationship, however there could be other views for example the same sex getting married, if two girls got married would this be the same in the role would one of them dominate the other, the answer I think would be no.because they are both females and it just wouldn't happen so why does it happen to females with males especially in some cultures as I talked about before, why is this happening? what is the cause of this ? do they have to be this way to go with the expectance of there culture? they born that way, did there parents do it, so they think if they did it then it must be acceptable.
Thursday 26 March 2015
Wednesday 18 March 2015
blocking scenes- wednesday 18th march 2015
This week we have been running through our lines of the script. And adding ideas that we could use as part of it, for example where we could add different scenes and how the scenes are going to be set out and look on the performance night.
we got told this week that we have to start thinking about costumes the costumes we were talking about was Greek/Rome as this indicates old times and they look old fashioned which would fit perfectly in this type of play that we are doing.
On the other hand we also ran through our lines and Daniel told use other meaning of what the lines meant as some of them were quite hard to understand unless you got the meaning to them.
The scenes we got up to where scenes 11 and 16 these scenes where the main ones as this leads up to a dramatic situation where Philomele gets rapped by Tereus and also Tereus cuts off Philomele tongue.
Throughout the script it goes on to show that Niobe, Philomele sister starts becoming nasty to Philomele and makes out that it was Philomele own fault.
the things I liked about this part of the script was that when we Philomele gets her tongue cut out we can act it out for example we came up with a few ideas of how this would work and look, the ideas that we came up with was that wen Tia (Tereus) cuts Elenies (Philomele's) tongue out we can show this by getting a tongue from the butchers but also if that would be too messy we came up with other ideas to...we could make something where we could show that there was blood everywhere from the impact of her tongue being cut off, to do this we thought of blood packs so when Tereus does this we will see that its clear that is very dramatic and to the audience it will look very good.
The things I liked about this particular scenes was that when we did a run through you could tell just by instinct that this would look very well set out.
Meanwhile I also like the set out because it looks realistic and gives the play a unique set look.
Also in our play there is a contrast that is quite obvious to spot, what I mean by this is that when we are cutting this play out we are in it but also we act out that we are young children watching it when were not in some scenes, This is obvious to see as when there is a scene on that where not in we it around on stage blocks but also when we get our costumes where going to be dressing up like children and this will make it even more obvious for the audience to see that where children watching a play as well as characters within the play.
Another thing that is well set out to see that we are playing children is that when we are watching the play we are playing with toys for example we came up with things we could use to show this, we came up with guns we could shoot at each other and at the audience but while doing this I shout "die, "die this indicates that im immature and im a child.
we got told this week that we have to start thinking about costumes the costumes we were talking about was Greek/Rome as this indicates old times and they look old fashioned which would fit perfectly in this type of play that we are doing.
On the other hand we also ran through our lines and Daniel told use other meaning of what the lines meant as some of them were quite hard to understand unless you got the meaning to them.
The scenes we got up to where scenes 11 and 16 these scenes where the main ones as this leads up to a dramatic situation where Philomele gets rapped by Tereus and also Tereus cuts off Philomele tongue.
Throughout the script it goes on to show that Niobe, Philomele sister starts becoming nasty to Philomele and makes out that it was Philomele own fault.
the things I liked about this part of the script was that when we Philomele gets her tongue cut out we can act it out for example we came up with a few ideas of how this would work and look, the ideas that we came up with was that wen Tia (Tereus) cuts Elenies (Philomele's) tongue out we can show this by getting a tongue from the butchers but also if that would be too messy we came up with other ideas to...we could make something where we could show that there was blood everywhere from the impact of her tongue being cut off, to do this we thought of blood packs so when Tereus does this we will see that its clear that is very dramatic and to the audience it will look very good.
The things I liked about this particular scenes was that when we did a run through you could tell just by instinct that this would look very well set out.
Meanwhile I also like the set out because it looks realistic and gives the play a unique set look.
Also in our play there is a contrast that is quite obvious to spot, what I mean by this is that when we are cutting this play out we are in it but also we act out that we are young children watching it when were not in some scenes, This is obvious to see as when there is a scene on that where not in we it around on stage blocks but also when we get our costumes where going to be dressing up like children and this will make it even more obvious for the audience to see that where children watching a play as well as characters within the play.
Another thing that is well set out to see that we are playing children is that when we are watching the play we are playing with toys for example we came up with things we could use to show this, we came up with guns we could shoot at each other and at the audience but while doing this I shout "die, "die this indicates that im immature and im a child.
Friday 13 March 2015
Improving scenes- friday 13th march 2015
improving scenes
In this lesson we were learning and adding our own background theme, we are furthering this by the theme of "war" therefore making this particular theme more apparent.
We also thought about how these particular scene interlinked into the context of the present day, we found out that wars are still happening therefore we could add this to our physical theatre by adding sounds that make it sound more like war and get that scenes of fear, this will show the audience that by use showing facial emotions that we are taking it all back to war but war in these days.
we also came up with other things that are still happening now, for example sexual abuse, this is still happening in many countries around the world, in contrast to this, this shows in the script that it has carried on and wen Philomele gets rapped they show that tereus makes her feel guilty, which this still goes on too.
In this lesson we were told how we could improve out physicality in our performance piece by adding more expressions when we read our part of the script.
when Philomele talks about how she wants to die, she shows this by using a timid and low voice this shows the audience that Philomele has had enough. tereus had gone too far.
Meanwhile we also learnt that some words and phrases in the script show symbolisation, eg. grey dark sky shows that something bad is going to happen but by the writer putting this the audience will automatically wonder what else is coming or going to happen as this term "dark Sky" means dark things is coming to the next scene or the end scene.
tereus rapes Philomele but should we let him off?
the question we got asked made use think about what that really means, in consideration to this we came up with, is that just tereus, was that expectable in them days, did she do something to make him commit that terrible act or is he just twisted.
Furthermore Niobe comes across t first as a nice person as she speaks to Philomele and warms her about tereus, but when tereus did commit the crime, Niobe went horrible towards Philomele and basically said it was her own fault and she is now one of them.
In this lesson we were learning and adding our own background theme, we are furthering this by the theme of "war" therefore making this particular theme more apparent.
We also thought about how these particular scene interlinked into the context of the present day, we found out that wars are still happening therefore we could add this to our physical theatre by adding sounds that make it sound more like war and get that scenes of fear, this will show the audience that by use showing facial emotions that we are taking it all back to war but war in these days.
we also came up with other things that are still happening now, for example sexual abuse, this is still happening in many countries around the world, in contrast to this, this shows in the script that it has carried on and wen Philomele gets rapped they show that tereus makes her feel guilty, which this still goes on too.
In this lesson we were told how we could improve out physicality in our performance piece by adding more expressions when we read our part of the script.
when Philomele talks about how she wants to die, she shows this by using a timid and low voice this shows the audience that Philomele has had enough. tereus had gone too far.
Meanwhile we also learnt that some words and phrases in the script show symbolisation, eg. grey dark sky shows that something bad is going to happen but by the writer putting this the audience will automatically wonder what else is coming or going to happen as this term "dark Sky" means dark things is coming to the next scene or the end scene.
tereus rapes Philomele but should we let him off?
the question we got asked made use think about what that really means, in consideration to this we came up with, is that just tereus, was that expectable in them days, did she do something to make him commit that terrible act or is he just twisted.
Furthermore Niobe comes across t first as a nice person as she speaks to Philomele and warms her about tereus, but when tereus did commit the crime, Niobe went horrible towards Philomele and basically said it was her own fault and she is now one of them.
Thursday 12 March 2015
themes in the scenes -Wednesday 12th March 2015
The main events
The main events we covered in this lesson was the captin flirting with philomele to show this elenie had to put on a flirtational voice, this shows the audience that philomele has fell for the captin.
iris could scenes something bad was going to happen as all he kept on repeating was "procne" this shows that iris wanted to say something but there was hesitation there.
near the end of this scene the captin starts falling for philomele and you can see this as the captin start speaking more to philomele and going with what ever she was saying and agreeing.
however we find out also towards the end of this scene that Nobe starts scensing what going to happen and she trys to warm philomole.
In this part of the scene we were showed places to stand and this shows the audienece that we are children watching a play as where we stand we act like we are watching the play as well as being in it.
In the script there is one main bit that stands out for example when philomele says "listen to the chorus the playwright always speaks through the chorus, this comes across as an internal reference and shows the audience that there is more to what this is saying.
also in the play tereus lies, he lies mostly to get his own way, he makes procne feel guilty of her sisters death.This shows terus is evil In many other ways too.
Also makes her feel like "is this real" what I mean by this is terus shows different ways it could have been her fault but really all he is doing is making her feel really guilty.
When terreus rapes philomele everyone acts really scared but also they go with what he says, as he makes them think, is this just him, has he done this because she had done something wrong, makes use think as actors did tereus think this was ok to do ? ...
through out the play we use different facial expressions this shows our characters persona,and by use doing this it shows the audiene what are character is really like.
However I do think I could improve by making my facial expression abit more expressive as my character (shows off) and for the audience to recognise this I have to exaggerate my movments and voice, for my voice I would have to use an exaggerated one as by doing this it will show that im going over the top and that I take everything too serious and make it sound even worse.
The main events we covered in this lesson was the captin flirting with philomele to show this elenie had to put on a flirtational voice, this shows the audience that philomele has fell for the captin.
iris could scenes something bad was going to happen as all he kept on repeating was "procne" this shows that iris wanted to say something but there was hesitation there.
near the end of this scene the captin starts falling for philomele and you can see this as the captin start speaking more to philomele and going with what ever she was saying and agreeing.
however we find out also towards the end of this scene that Nobe starts scensing what going to happen and she trys to warm philomole.
In this part of the scene we were showed places to stand and this shows the audienece that we are children watching a play as where we stand we act like we are watching the play as well as being in it.
In the script there is one main bit that stands out for example when philomele says "listen to the chorus the playwright always speaks through the chorus, this comes across as an internal reference and shows the audience that there is more to what this is saying.
also in the play tereus lies, he lies mostly to get his own way, he makes procne feel guilty of her sisters death.This shows terus is evil In many other ways too.
Also makes her feel like "is this real" what I mean by this is terus shows different ways it could have been her fault but really all he is doing is making her feel really guilty.
When terreus rapes philomele everyone acts really scared but also they go with what he says, as he makes them think, is this just him, has he done this because she had done something wrong, makes use think as actors did tereus think this was ok to do ? ...
through out the play we use different facial expressions this shows our characters persona,and by use doing this it shows the audiene what are character is really like.
However I do think I could improve by making my facial expression abit more expressive as my character (shows off) and for the audience to recognise this I have to exaggerate my movments and voice, for my voice I would have to use an exaggerated one as by doing this it will show that im going over the top and that I take everything too serious and make it sound even worse.
Friday 6 March 2015
rehersal process- wednesday 6th march 2015
rehearsal process
we started with our opening scene which was use running rapid across the stage but in a very scared emotional way. as this scene is the air raid scene.
In this scene we came up with movements that would go as a nice contrast but also that interlinks with what we are doing for example we all have different ways of our own to get to one side of the stage to the other but we make it fast so this shows that we are scared and want to get away, with this we are having sounds in the background which will make it a bit more obvious to the audience that this play is all about "war".
To do this we use our own way of connecting with each other, for example we have something which we pass to each other but really we have nothing to pass, we make the audience imagine we have something. We do this scene twice as we found out that it wasn't long enough and it made it more clear to understand by doing it twice but at the end demi runs and crash's on the floor this will show the audience that the first scene is over.
After this we was practicing more reading out our lines on the script,
Daniel gave use a few movements and actions we could do,for example my character Phaedra is a very exaggerating character so the scenes I act are very over dramatic,but the audience will see this and find it funny because its something that stands out as clowning.
The actions I do the audience will pick up on because they are very unusual, and don't look real, However I speak for the female chorus to this becomes a nice contrast between my character and then going straight into a different one, which also the audience will see.
The things I thought really worked well about the first scene was it was really clear to see that it was all about war because you can tell that we are trying to get away and move to a safer place, also when demi runs across the stage and crashes on the floor it looks really effective and moving.
Meanwhile the other piece I think really works well is my bit of the play where I act out very over dramatic because this will be a funny bit of the scene where the audience will see this and wheel get a few laughs, which will be a nice contract from going from formal to informal straight away.
In condition to this there are places that will need tweaking a bit for example when we are running across the stage I need to be quicker and throw myself to the floor more, so this will make it more clear to understand that I am trying to get away.
The other things i need to improve is on the dramatic scenes be even more dramatic and throw myself at it.
The things i have learnt is " now is the time to stop being shy and throw myself at this, because if i do then the more i don't care about looking stupid,then the more I will progress and be a lot more confident. by having this character I know I will become more confident I can tell already that it is helping me become more confident in acting a bit un normal.
we started with our opening scene which was use running rapid across the stage but in a very scared emotional way. as this scene is the air raid scene.
In this scene we came up with movements that would go as a nice contrast but also that interlinks with what we are doing for example we all have different ways of our own to get to one side of the stage to the other but we make it fast so this shows that we are scared and want to get away, with this we are having sounds in the background which will make it a bit more obvious to the audience that this play is all about "war".
To do this we use our own way of connecting with each other, for example we have something which we pass to each other but really we have nothing to pass, we make the audience imagine we have something. We do this scene twice as we found out that it wasn't long enough and it made it more clear to understand by doing it twice but at the end demi runs and crash's on the floor this will show the audience that the first scene is over.
After this we was practicing more reading out our lines on the script,
Daniel gave use a few movements and actions we could do,for example my character Phaedra is a very exaggerating character so the scenes I act are very over dramatic,but the audience will see this and find it funny because its something that stands out as clowning.
The actions I do the audience will pick up on because they are very unusual, and don't look real, However I speak for the female chorus to this becomes a nice contrast between my character and then going straight into a different one, which also the audience will see.
The things I thought really worked well about the first scene was it was really clear to see that it was all about war because you can tell that we are trying to get away and move to a safer place, also when demi runs across the stage and crashes on the floor it looks really effective and moving.
Meanwhile the other piece I think really works well is my bit of the play where I act out very over dramatic because this will be a funny bit of the scene where the audience will see this and wheel get a few laughs, which will be a nice contract from going from formal to informal straight away.
In condition to this there are places that will need tweaking a bit for example when we are running across the stage I need to be quicker and throw myself to the floor more, so this will make it more clear to understand that I am trying to get away.
The other things i need to improve is on the dramatic scenes be even more dramatic and throw myself at it.
The things i have learnt is " now is the time to stop being shy and throw myself at this, because if i do then the more i don't care about looking stupid,then the more I will progress and be a lot more confident. by having this character I know I will become more confident I can tell already that it is helping me become more confident in acting a bit un normal.
Thursday 5 March 2015
introduced practice for The Love of the nightingale play- 3rd march 2015
In the first scene we came up with me having a costume box but im not there with them, at first.
im remerging through the costume box, then they notice I am gone so they call me over and I say "eyy guys look what I found" then by this we all get our costumes on and act out our bits.
In this lesson we also got given our own part of the script/book and we had to stand up and say it, but also add movements that would go with the words for example there are formal and informal bits which to do this we speak and act formal when the important characters are talking, but when the informal actors speak we go back to being quite slouchy what i mean by this is we have our legs together and stand with posture this shows that were being formal.
The other things we did in this lesson was set the stage, we were placed one by one onto the stage and where ever we was placed was the place that we have to get down from and say our line in the 3rd scene.
In this play i play two characters, i have to play a formal character and an informal character.
this play is all about war and how people reacted throughout the war, this play shows lots of different emotions such as love, sadness, angry, scared ...
this play is a physical theatre play as there are lots of activity throughout this play this includes using the whole of the stage.
Meanwhile this play is very intense and satisfying too.
there are gunner be funny parts and sad parts to this play too. in this we are acting as children but we are saying what we are doing through (narration).
the person that this interlinks with is bertolf bretch as he uses physical theatre as a stimulus and he uses narration and acting out the same time.
introduced plays with a truly epic scope. Made things rude and gags.
im remerging through the costume box, then they notice I am gone so they call me over and I say "eyy guys look what I found" then by this we all get our costumes on and act out our bits.
In this lesson we also got given our own part of the script/book and we had to stand up and say it, but also add movements that would go with the words for example there are formal and informal bits which to do this we speak and act formal when the important characters are talking, but when the informal actors speak we go back to being quite slouchy what i mean by this is we have our legs together and stand with posture this shows that were being formal.
The other things we did in this lesson was set the stage, we were placed one by one onto the stage and where ever we was placed was the place that we have to get down from and say our line in the 3rd scene.
In this play i play two characters, i have to play a formal character and an informal character.
this play is all about war and how people reacted throughout the war, this play shows lots of different emotions such as love, sadness, angry, scared ...
this play is a physical theatre play as there are lots of activity throughout this play this includes using the whole of the stage.
Meanwhile this play is very intense and satisfying too.
there are gunner be funny parts and sad parts to this play too. in this we are acting as children but we are saying what we are doing through (narration).
the person that this interlinks with is bertolf bretch as he uses physical theatre as a stimulus and he uses narration and acting out the same time.
introduced plays with a truly epic scope. Made things rude and gags.
· The best German word in theatre……… verfremdungseffekt to make something a little strange ( v- effect) something can create verfremdungseffekt.
· Verfremdungseffekt, or v- effect is essentially what happens when you shatter the illusion that the piece of theatre the audience is watching is real.
The things i learnt from this practical lesson was how acting and speaking looks, for example im in a boat, but really im just acting out and making it look like i am.
but the audience will know exactly what it is, because it looks realistic and this is what bertolf bretch used.
The things i learnt from this practical lesson was how acting and speaking looks, for example im in a boat, but really im just acting out and making it look like i am.
but the audience will know exactly what it is, because it looks realistic and this is what bertolf bretch used.
Info on bertolf Bretch- 5th march 2015
Bertolt Bretch
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1898-1956
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2 world wars happened while he was
alive
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Americans kicked him out so he went
back to France
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Epic theatre- epic themes, epic
scale, episodic structure
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Didn’t write about love, he wrote
about war and poverty, depression and he horror of war
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“the love of the nightingale has an
epic theme, it has a background of war.
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He sets his place usually in one room
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He made people use there imaginations
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Everything was set on the epic theme,
for example wen they was on a boat they weren’t really thay was just acting it
out so it looked like they was on a boat.
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Air raids
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Chaos
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He has lights on all time so you
could see everything
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Different episodes
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He broke down the fourth
wall(idium)visible line between you and the audience, don’t look at them,
everything we do is behind the fourth wall bretch sed theres no need for the
wall, the audience know there watching a play, lets just get real and think
logical, tell them whats happeneing through narration or through song.
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He used flash backs
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He made political and entertaining
with music and comedy
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Introduced plays with a truly epic
scope. Made things rude and gags.
·
The best german word in theatre………
verfremdungseffekt to make something a little strange ( v- effect) something
can create verfremdungseffekt.
·
Verfremdungseffekt, or v- effect is
essencially what happens when you shatter the illousin that the piece of
theatre the audience is watching is
real.
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Examples wen the wall is brocken,
female and male chorus
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Looking out the window
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Telling a story as school kids. Now where
villians.
Guestus
It’s the way your physically, cosume,
facial expression, attitude and use of space combine to show the audience what
kind of character you are- not subtle at all, just very clear.
simplifies gesture with attitude
whole charcter in one .
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