Monday 26th September 2011.
This week we are learning about Bertolt brecht. In this lesson we had lots of fun we done freeze frames. Micheal put us in groups of 2's and 3's and made us create freeze frames which had to include either the riots in London during august 2011 or the war on terror. This was very Practicle and fun. Then we had to get into groups of 5 and had to create a story through freeze frames. My group decided to do war on terror. Our story was three soldiers going in to a house killing the daughter and leaving the mother distraught. We had to do this in 10 freeze frames. This was difficult because they had to make sense and follow on from each other. Then Micheal told us that one scene doesn't have to link to the next it can be muddled, this made us even more confused. We decided to continue to link the freeze frames together. After showing our freeze frame story we had to extend it with little notes to the audiences. This added sense of humour and it made the audience smile. The message behind the story was still there but instead of the audience feeling sad they would smile because that's brechts style.
Tuesday 27th September 2011
Understanding Brechts Epic Theatre. we got handed a script and started reading it through. Nick slowly started giving out Character's to people. The play was written by Brecht and the play is about Hitler and was based in Germany. Once all of us had character we read through the script adding in the stage directions. Nick got really creative and gave us all costumes and made it more realistic. nick is a very strong director he knew what he wanted. I was part of the ensemble and without us the scene would have died. the ensemble was so funny and tiring but very enjoyable.
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