Thursday, 29 January 2015
Unit 13 - Contemporary Theatre Performance Bibliography
- IMDb:Timberlake Wertenbaker Biography http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0921588/bio (15th January 2015)
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Country's_Good - Picture
- The industrial revolution http://industrialrevolution.sea.ca/causes.html (15th January 2015
- https://thecuriousastronomer.wordpress.com/tag/william-pitt-the-younger/ - Picture
- http://watchesseven.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/arnold-son-te8-metiers-dart-ii.html - Picture
- Encyclopedia Britannica:William Pitt The Younger http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/462151/William-Pitt-the-Younger/5741/Pitts-first-ministry-1783-1801(15th Jnauary 2015)
- http://sydneylivingmuseums.com.au/unlocked-winter-edition-2014 - Picture
- Wikipedia:History of Australia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Australia
(20th January 2015) - Wikipedia:History of Australia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Australia
(20th January 2015) - Picture - This is from Princton:Restoration Comedy and can be found at http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Restoration_comedy.html (Friday 30th January 2015)
- This is from V&A:19th Century Theatre and can be found at http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/0-9/18th-century-theatre/ (Friday 30th January 2015)
- This is from Theatrehistory.com:David Garrick and can be found at http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/garrick001.html (Friday 30th January 2015)
- This is from Stanislavski Stystem:Emotion Memory 20th December 2012 Can be found at https://heatheractingwork.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/emotion-memory/ (6th February 2015)
Unit 38 - Dance Performance Bibliography
- This information was from Dance dictionary http://www.dancedictionary.com/ (19th September 2014)
- http://www.glogster.com/hannahbanana3168/hair-spray/g-6kmnq3n9ebk3uk48cr3vua0 - Picture
- http://www.superiorpics.com/james_marsden/movie-picture/2007_hairspray_009.html - Picture
- Wikepedia: Hairspray (2007) film found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairspray_(2007_film) (12th January 2015)
- https://mbasic.facebook.com/profile.php?v=timeline&filter=0&timecutoff=1388453374§ionLoadingID=m_timeline_loading_div_1388563199_1357027200_8_&timeend=1388563199×tart=1357027200&tm=AQAulJeEEw_8Fed0&id=117673921640590 - Picture
- http://funny-pictures.picphotos.net/the-mating-dance-of-the-wild-tennant/2/ - Picture
- http://thedongerneedsfood.blogspot.co.uk/2011/08/weekly-playlist-musicals.html - Picture
Unit 15 - Variety Performance Bibliography
- This information was from Dance moms wiki - Nia Fraizer http://dancemoms.wikia.com/wiki/Nia_Frazier (25th September 2014)
- This is from Dance moms wiki http://dancemoms.wikia.com/wiki/The_Next_Right_Thing (25th September 2015)
- This is from AtoZ lyrics:Stevie Wonder lyrics http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/steviewonder/livingforthecity.html (25th January 2014
- V&A:The story of the music hall http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/t/the-story-of-music-halls/ (20th November 2014)
- V&A: Character Acts http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/m/music-hall-character-acts/ (20th November 2014
Wikipedia:Sam Cowell http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Cowell ( 29th January 2014)
http://pixgood.com/cell-block-tango-costumes.html - picture
Wikepedia:Chicago(Musical) can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_(musical) (Tuesday 17th February 2015)
Wikepedia:Cell block tango can be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_Block_Tango (Tuesday 17th February 2015)
Unit 14 - Musical Theatre Performance Bibliography
- http://en.paperblog.com/1920s-fashion-animation-811414/ - Picture
- This information was sourced from History, The roaring twenties. Available from http://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties (Accessed on 16th September 2015
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTBadOjJDkg - Picture
- https://www.haikudeck.com/18th-amendment--uncategorized-presentation-V4W4xRuEXt - Picture
- This information is sourced from The FBI federal Bureau of investigation, Famous cases and criminals:Al Capone. This is available from http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/al-capone (Accessed on 16th September 2014
- http://democratherald.com/thursday-top-fedora-wearers/image_68862a60-39c3-11e2-a5e3-0019bb2963f4.html - Picture
- http://www.weekendnotes.com/bugsy-malone-film-review/ - Picture
- http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sandlier/marge/galus.htm - Picture
- http://www.shutterstock.com/s/%22horse+lot%22/search.html - Picture
- http://www.ovguide.com/bugsy-malone-9202a8c04000641f80000000001c54c0 - Picture
- http://www.goatchelsea.com/category/news/ - Picture
- http://lenseeyee.blogspot.co.uk/ - Picture
- http://www.bamboo-club.net/cinema/tomorrow-never-comes - Picture
Thursday 29th January 2015 - Analytical writing
Thursday 29th January 2015
Analytical Writing
Descriptive Writing
Critical Analytical Writing
Warm-ups
Analytical Writing
Descriptive Writing
- What you did?
Critical Analytical Writing
- Why did the exercise work in this project?
- How it helped?
- Effective (fit for purpose) and development (start and finish)
- How it helped
- Collaboration of ideas and energy
- Characterisation
- Impact with interaction
Warm-ups
- Energy
- Focus
- Vocal preps
- Prepare
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Tuesday 27th January 2015 - Research 1700s Acting Styles
Tuesday 27th January 2015
Research 1700s Acting Styles
Restoration Comedy - This is the English comedies that were written and performed in the period between 1660-1710. The Puritan regime meant that public stage performances had been banned for 18 years and the re-opening of theatres in 1660 began a different type of English theatre. Restoration comedy focuses on sexual explicitness, this was encouraged by King Charles 2nd. These type of plays were watched by both aristocrats an their servants as many people were attracted to watch these plays because of the topic that were covered.
This is from Princton:Restoration Comedy and can be found at http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Restoration_comedy.html (Friday 30th January 2015)
18th Century Plays - In this time period the theatre was a popular pastime and therefore many theatres and playhouses were built and enlarged in London. Usually the write of the play directed it, during the play when it was an actors turn to say their lines, they would step forward and speak. Each actor got paid according to how popular they were and each actor played the same type of role in each play they were in, For example actors who played a tragedy role always performed a tragedy role. The playwrights got paid on the third and the sixth nights performance but only on the original run of the show.
This is from V&A:19th Century Theatre and can be found at http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/0-9/18th-century-theatre/ (Friday 30th January 2015)
David Garrick - For over 30 years (1741-1776) he was one if the most successful actors, producer and theatre managers, during his career he wrote and adapted more than 20 plays. His most successful performance was as Richard 3rd at the Goodmans Fields Thetare. After this The Theatre Royal in Drury Lane hired him and after 5 years of employment he began to manage the theatre. Garrick was famous for using a different acting style to the other famous actors at the time, he prefered to speak and move with a more natural manner rather than using melodrama. The effect of this was more subtle and this was a start of using realism whilst acting. His most famous role was in a Shakespeare play as the role of Hamlet, he also became a successful manager of the Theatre Royal. Whilst being a manger he made several changes to the theatre, for example he had audience memebers sitting on stage, this was to get them involved with the play rather than sitting relaxed watching a proscenium stage.
This is from Theatrehistory.com:David Garrick and can be found at http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/garrick001.html (Friday 30th January 2015)
Research 1700s Acting Styles
Restoration Comedy - This is the English comedies that were written and performed in the period between 1660-1710. The Puritan regime meant that public stage performances had been banned for 18 years and the re-opening of theatres in 1660 began a different type of English theatre. Restoration comedy focuses on sexual explicitness, this was encouraged by King Charles 2nd. These type of plays were watched by both aristocrats an their servants as many people were attracted to watch these plays because of the topic that were covered.
This is from Princton:Restoration Comedy and can be found at http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Restoration_comedy.html (Friday 30th January 2015)
18th Century Plays - In this time period the theatre was a popular pastime and therefore many theatres and playhouses were built and enlarged in London. Usually the write of the play directed it, during the play when it was an actors turn to say their lines, they would step forward and speak. Each actor got paid according to how popular they were and each actor played the same type of role in each play they were in, For example actors who played a tragedy role always performed a tragedy role. The playwrights got paid on the third and the sixth nights performance but only on the original run of the show.
This is from V&A:19th Century Theatre and can be found at http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/0-9/18th-century-theatre/ (Friday 30th January 2015)
David Garrick - For over 30 years (1741-1776) he was one if the most successful actors, producer and theatre managers, during his career he wrote and adapted more than 20 plays. His most successful performance was as Richard 3rd at the Goodmans Fields Thetare. After this The Theatre Royal in Drury Lane hired him and after 5 years of employment he began to manage the theatre. Garrick was famous for using a different acting style to the other famous actors at the time, he prefered to speak and move with a more natural manner rather than using melodrama. The effect of this was more subtle and this was a start of using realism whilst acting. His most famous role was in a Shakespeare play as the role of Hamlet, he also became a successful manager of the Theatre Royal. Whilst being a manger he made several changes to the theatre, for example he had audience memebers sitting on stage, this was to get them involved with the play rather than sitting relaxed watching a proscenium stage.
This is from Theatrehistory.com:David Garrick and can be found at http://www.theatrehistory.com/british/garrick001.html (Friday 30th January 2015)
Friday, 23 January 2015
Thursday 22nd January 2015 - Blocking Act 1 Of Our Country's Good
Thursday 22nd January 2015
Blocking Act 1 Of Our Country's Good
At the start if this lesson we continued to read the script up till the end of act 1, we also looked at videos of "Hornblower". This is because it is based on the same themes and issues as "Our Country's Good", it is based on a convict ship set in the 1700s, they used the same punishments such as flogging and hanging. As well as this they showed us what the shipmen and convicts wore, this gave up ideas of costumes that we could use for the show.
Today we continued to block the first act, we carried on from scene three (where the three men are shooting birds). We worked on transitions from scene three to scene four, i have to walk off from being Governor Arthur Phillip to being a convict. To do this i take my jacket off and lie down next to the other convicts, at this point we are in the camp late at night trying to go to sleep.
Blocking Act 1 Of Our Country's Good
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At the start if this lesson we continued to read the script up till the end of act 1, we also looked at videos of "Hornblower". This is because it is based on the same themes and issues as "Our Country's Good", it is based on a convict ship set in the 1700s, they used the same punishments such as flogging and hanging. As well as this they showed us what the shipmen and convicts wore, this gave up ideas of costumes that we could use for the show.
Today we continued to block the first act, we carried on from scene three (where the three men are shooting birds). We worked on transitions from scene three to scene four, i have to walk off from being Governor Arthur Phillip to being a convict. To do this i take my jacket off and lie down next to the other convicts, at this point we are in the camp late at night trying to go to sleep.
Thursday, 22 January 2015
Tuesday, 20 January 2015
Tuesday 20th January 2015 - Governor Arthur Phillip
Tuesday 20th January 2015
Governor Arthur Phillip
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My character is based on a a real person, Governor Arthur Phillip was the first governor of New South Wales, this was the first convict colony in Australia, this settlement later became known as Sydney. He was born on the 11th of October 1738 in London, he lead the first convict ship from England to Australia.
Wikipedia:History Of Australia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Australia
(20th January 2015)
Everything I say about myself -
"I had retired from his majesty's service, Ralph. I was farming. I don't know why they asked me to rule over this colony of wretched souls, but I will fulfil my responsibility. No one will stop me."
Everything other people say about me -
"Your excellency"
Everything I say about other people -
"I am not suggesting they go without punishment"
"Have these men lost all fear of being flogged"
"I would prefer them to see real plays: fine language, sentiment"
"Surely we don't have to hang an 82 year old woman"
"Surely than can also be reformed?"
"They can be educated"
"He has been given 200 lashes for trying to escape. It will take him time for him to see himself as a human being again"
"Liz Morden - I had a reason for asking you to cast her as Melinda. Morden is one of the most difficult women in the colony"
"Redeeming her humanity"
"If we treat her as a corpse, of course she will die. Try a little kindness"
These quotes suggests that Governor Arthur Phillip is a respected leader, however he is unlike the other captians as he believes in giving the convicts a second chance. He wants the convicts to be punished for their crimes, on the other hand he wants them to be educated. This suggests that if the criminals were educated then they would have more of a chance of not committing other crimes, he also sees them as being the same as him, he doesnt treat them like they are not humans unlike some of the other officers. He also takes alot of responsibility as he was retired however he was still willing to go to Australia to take charge of the convict camp.
Tuesday 20th January 2015 - Planning Our Country's Good
Tuesday 20th January 2015
Planning Our Country's Good
Planning Our Country's Good
Tuesday 20th January 2015 - Blocking Act 1 Of Our Country's Good
Tuesday 20th January 2015
Blocking Act 1 Of Our Country's Good
The boat scene - Today we started blocking the first three scenes of the show after reading through a few more scenes. In the first scene we are forming the front of the ship, I am one of the people that is cramped together in the ship. We were swaying slightly to show the movement of the ship against the sea, we also had to create a sound scape that consisted of praying, coughing and crying. This is because the convicts have been kept in poor conditions for months at sea, illness and diseases have been passed from person to person, many people feel desperate, scared and lonely. This shows the audience a more realistic view of what a 1700s convict ship would be like rather than just showing the flogging scene, this gives an idea of the rest of the ship as well. When the ship gets to Australia we have to walk off of the ship, looking around as they are in an unfamiliar place and they don't know what to expect from this new place. As I walk up to Amber I have to take her stick and this becomes my gun for the next scene, between these two scenes I change characters. This scene is based on using physical theatre because using this skill expands our knowledge of different skills used by successful theatre companies.
The shooting scene - In this scene Arthur Phillip, David Collins and Watkin Tench are shooting birds we use bamboo sticks instead of guns because it symbolises the English taking over the Aborigines land and culture. As well as this It shows that the English took whatever they wanted off of them as if it was their own country. I stand in front of the other men because my character is of a higher authority than them. I also give my bamboo stick to Harry Brewer because he is a lower status than me, so therefore I have other people who do things for me, such as hold my things when I no longer want to. Every time somebody spots something new, we all have to look at it in amazement this is to show that this is a completely new place that they had never been before. This is important tat we all use different facial expressions in this scene because the audience need to understand that they are exited but a little nervous about being in an unfamiliar country. When my character shoots a bird all of the other men congratulate me, this is because they want to make sure that I am kept happy so that their positions are not at stake. Because my character is in charge of everyone else, all of the other captains know that I make decisions so as long as the keep themselves quite and follow the rules nothing bad will happen to them.
Blocking Act 1 Of Our Country's Good
The boat scene - Today we started blocking the first three scenes of the show after reading through a few more scenes. In the first scene we are forming the front of the ship, I am one of the people that is cramped together in the ship. We were swaying slightly to show the movement of the ship against the sea, we also had to create a sound scape that consisted of praying, coughing and crying. This is because the convicts have been kept in poor conditions for months at sea, illness and diseases have been passed from person to person, many people feel desperate, scared and lonely. This shows the audience a more realistic view of what a 1700s convict ship would be like rather than just showing the flogging scene, this gives an idea of the rest of the ship as well. When the ship gets to Australia we have to walk off of the ship, looking around as they are in an unfamiliar place and they don't know what to expect from this new place. As I walk up to Amber I have to take her stick and this becomes my gun for the next scene, between these two scenes I change characters. This scene is based on using physical theatre because using this skill expands our knowledge of different skills used by successful theatre companies.
The shooting scene - In this scene Arthur Phillip, David Collins and Watkin Tench are shooting birds we use bamboo sticks instead of guns because it symbolises the English taking over the Aborigines land and culture. As well as this It shows that the English took whatever they wanted off of them as if it was their own country. I stand in front of the other men because my character is of a higher authority than them. I also give my bamboo stick to Harry Brewer because he is a lower status than me, so therefore I have other people who do things for me, such as hold my things when I no longer want to. Every time somebody spots something new, we all have to look at it in amazement this is to show that this is a completely new place that they had never been before. This is important tat we all use different facial expressions in this scene because the audience need to understand that they are exited but a little nervous about being in an unfamiliar country. When my character shoots a bird all of the other men congratulate me, this is because they want to make sure that I am kept happy so that their positions are not at stake. Because my character is in charge of everyone else, all of the other captains know that I make decisions so as long as the keep themselves quite and follow the rules nothing bad will happen to them.
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