Tuesday 7 February 2012

Conflict and Gender...

Make certain that you have completed the worksheet from Friday, February 3rd's class.

The three-person 'conflict' scenes you performed on Monday with the ADA 4M's were excellent.  Today, you focused on developing two-person scenes with a conflict centred on gender-based stereotypes.  We only got to see four scenes before the bell rang--looking forward to seeing the rest tomorrow.

Concepts we were reminded of from sharing our work: 

a) how an object can become a symbol (remote control);

b) how physical proximity can represent the distance between our points of view;

c) how our acting partners can support us in a scene when we forget what we had rehearsed;

d) how to hold for laughs while still maintaining a 'natural' flow of dialogue...


This class will be reading Ibsen's A Doll's House as your introduction to Modern Theatre, hence the focus on gender stereotypes.  You may be surprised at what shocked audiences in 1880!

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