HMW for lesson on Thurs 27th Nove

WATCHED

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Frantic Assembly Othello 2014 Trailer

Physical Theatre

The final peice will rely on physical theatre and the work of a tight ensemble to tell the story of 'East End Tales'.

Frantic Assembly are a UK based physical theatre company, take a look at the clip from their 'Othello' above.

Task 1 - TALE 8 

In groups you read through TALE 8. 

You needed to underline anything that suggested a location, weather, or atmosphere.

Write some examples of what you underlined OR take some photos of your script.

CREATE/REHEARSE

Once you'd done this you went through anything you'd underlined and created a series of sounds and some movement to develop the scene. 

You were asked to focus on creating the atmosphere and think about being the buildings, the weather, and the atmosphere.

You were allowed to use some of the lines from the text – however you might have decided to just use your sounds and movements to tell the tale.

You then SHARED the work with the class and reflected.

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What was effective about the sounds they had decided to use?

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What was effective about the movement they had decided to use?

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How did the work make you feel?

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What could have been developed further?

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Are their many similarities in what groups decided to do?

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Do the sounds and movement have the same impact as just reading out the lines? Is it a better way to help tell this story?

Task 2.

In groups of 5/6 you re-read Tale 6. You had to underline all the people mentioned e.g brother, landlord, mother…

• What did you underline in the text? - take photos, or write the list. 

you decided on a character they you had underlined to create a role – on – the – wall for. You were given the sheet for this in the lesson. Upload this on the blog if your took a photp. 

You wrote:

INTERIOR: Things the character thinks and feels.

EXTERIOR: Things that people say about them, what they look like.

 

Using the roles you had developed you created some scenes that show how these characters exist outside the play. 

For example, the character in tale 6 speaking is waiting for his brother to finish work. They might explore a scene of the brother at work. You needed to make up what he does etc. You needed to focus on creating roles that are believable and should keep in mind the context of the play, the east-end.

• What scene did you develop?
• What drama skills did you use to do so?
• Explain what you did as your character. Why did you make these choices? (Think about character- voice/physicality.)

You then SHARED the work with the class and reflected.

• What was effective about the characters they had decided to explore? 
• Did the scene help you understand anything new about the play or another character?

Last task:

You should continue to explore the East-End through research. Keep uploading this to your blog too!