I’ve just finished my script for the Beatles related part of our ensemble. And it’s my turn to be director/dictator tomorrow! HooraH! I’ve tried to make it non-naturalistic, but it could probably use some polish. There’s a few parts of the script I think will work well and other parts that I think aren’t so hot, but I’m confident our group together will make it awesome. I also tried to use some ideas from Exit the King and my knowledge about absurd theatre to make the dialogue more disjointed and alienating. Alienating… Epic Theatre… they all go together!

Anyway I’m pretty tired now, might watch a movie and hit the sack. SNES on.

On Monday we decided that the best way for us to really get things moving is if we all focused on developing ideas for certain artists and scenes in our performance seperately. So we divided up our topics amongst our group and are all going to be working on ideas for scenes outside of school which we can then share with the group, collaborate on and improve. I think this will be good, and we all will get our own creative freedom and input as well. That’s pretty Snes if you ask me. Anyway, I better get going and get some ideas for scenes about the Beatles. Catch ya man.

The realisation that the holidays have come to a screeching hault dawns on me and my brain hurts.

Today in drama we again got some productive work done (YES!!!). Mr. Mac gave both groups a place to start with their scene: contrasting characters. This grew well, and by the end of the lesson we had a fully fledged new scene which demonstrates the differences and similarities between sub-cultures. YEZ! We included a plethora of non-naturalistic techniques as well, and it fit in perfectly with the topic and the direction our ensemble was going, so I was really happy.

Some of the important criticisms of our performance were that when doing the narration at the end we needed to have a neutral character. I agreed and thought that was what we should have in the scene and we could also use that technique again in the performance.

We got back into the ensemble creating groove today, and things seem to be finally starting to really come together. We began by trading ideas and going over what we individually researched. We started to arrange our ideas and with some major pointers from Mr.Mac got a bit of structure to our ideas, with a timeline. Then we got fish & chips.

When we got back we ate and got straight back into it, creating a tight little scene about the life and influence of Elvis Presley. We used just about every non-naturalistic technique prescribed and it still flowed and came together very organically and easily. I think the large amount of research and over-thinking we have done will come to benifit us if we continue creating and scripting scenes like we did today. But, as usual, our group still seems to have some trouble getting started working with an idea. But….I’m sure we’ll continue to get better at this and create something awesome next term. Deutsch!