Drama Journal – Drama Exam Practice Questions
May 27, 2012
How would you approach playing the character of Gregor both physically and vocally in Scene 1 compared to Scene 6? In scene one and in scene six, I would have quite similar movements as not to confuse the audience. My usual movements would be shuffling around on all fours, making very slow progress, just like an [...]
Drama Journal – The Set of Metamorphosis
May 21, 2012
The non-IGCSE group of drama got into pairs and designed and modeled the set that they thought was appropriate to the play: Metamorphosis. Dayna and Isabella’s group had a very good idea of keeping Fischer’s room hidden as this would symbolize his hidden character, however, their set was too big, creating too much empty space. [...]
Roosevelt’s First Hundred Days Assessment
May 17, 2012
Visit our facebook group to learn more about the great alphabet agencies here! In the 21 century fireside chats, we talked about what the goals of the agencies were. We also started each speech with “good evening, friends” which was like when Roosevelt said “hello friends” before every fireside chat.We also used very simple language [...]
In this week’s class, we looked on two very famous theatre practitioners: Augusto Boal (1931-2009) and Bertolt Brecht (1898-1959). The works of the German playwright and director, Bertolt Brecht, influenced contemporary documentary drama. Documentary drama uses historical records of real events as its foundation. Projecting images or texts, breaking the narrative up with songs and character [...]
