Monday
 

Monday
9/27/04

Improvisation lecture and activities.

Listening Improvisation  "Tell a friend"  Students will set in a circle and pass a short message around the circle whispering in the persons ear next to them.  The objective is to try and get the same message around the circle from beginning to end. 

Spontaneous Improvisation  "One Word Story" The class will set in a circle - a character will be given along with place and situation and each person in the circle will have to tell a story using only word at a time.  Each person will add to the story,  one word at a time, until the story comes to an end.  The story should have a logical beginning, middle and end.

Monday

Monday
2/23/04

Monday

Monday

Monday

Mark every line with a verb -- even the lines of the other characters in your group.

Use the verb list for help, if you can't think of an action verb.

Monday
2/16/04

Complete the Playing the Objective Worksheet

Monday
1/6/04

After the picture has been picked each student will write a one minute original monologue from the perspective of the person (or one of the people) in the picture.

Keep in mind the monologue should be in first person and don't forget that any story, play, monologue etc. has three main parts:

1.  The Beginning - where you establish who you are and the given circumstances of the scene or monologue. Given circumstance being those things that we need to know to understand the world of the scene or monologue.  Things like character traits, mood, place, time, setting, etc.

2.  The Middle - The is where some sort of conflict happens.  Your character should have something that he or she wants but there are obstacles standing in the way of them getting what they want.  What is it your character wants and what is standing in the way of you getting it?

3.  The End - At the end of your scene or monologue you will have a discovery or a resolution of the action.  Did you get what you wanted???  Does everyone live happily ever after???  or not?  Or is there an open ending where the resolution of the action is left up to the audience to decide. 

*** Be creative with your picture Monologue--- the only limitation is your imagination.  Have fun with this assignment -- your monologue can be fun or sad or both -- your choice.

Monologue Tips - click here for ideas and help on picking and writing monologues.

Rehearsal time will be given on Monday and Performance of you monologues will begin on Tuesday of next week

Monday
12/02/03

Go over note review sheet.

Monday
12/02/03

Technical Aspects of Theatre -Building projects for "Your A Good Man Charlie Brown"

Monday
11/24/03

HOLIDAY

Monday
11/17/03

Technical Aspects of Theatre -Lecture and hands on applications of stage lighting.

Monday
11/10/03

Technical Aspects of Theatre - hands on applications of set building and scene painting.

Monday
11/03/03

Watch the video and write down the 10 most important ideas that could help a professional actor be cast in television or film.

This is due at the end of the class.

Technical Aspects of Theatre - hands on applications of set building and scene painting.

Monday
10/27/03

Select scene from the play and a group of actors that will play all the roles in your scene.

Groups can be two to four people -- more or less will need teacher approval.

Pick a scene that has distinctive beginning and ending.

All actors should have approximately the same about of lines.

After the scene and group are picked the group must decide which actors will play each part. 

Monday
10/20/03

Scenes must be two pages (written) and must be completed before the end of the period.

Supprize Party is a guessing game. An audience member is chosen to host a party - and is promptly taken out of listening range. Five "guests" are then chosen. Each guest is then endowed by the audience with some odd-quirk or physical deformity (examples: has three legs, is cheese-a-phobic, screams whenever verbs are spoken, etc.)

The host then returns and, one by one, the guests arrive. It is the task of the host to guess the quirk of each guest. The guests must act out their personal quirk, but are forbidden from directly mentioning what it is. This rule holds for any part of the quirk (i.e. a guest with three legs cannot say "Look! I'm wearing three shoes!!")

When the host correctly guesses the quirk of the guest, that guest leaves the party and the next guest enters.

The only special rules are 1) If the host guesses part of the quirk, then the guest can directly mention that part (i.e. (Host) "You have three feet??" (Three legged guest) "No, but I have three of something below the waist.") - 2) if the host is having a particularly hard time guessing the quirk, another guest can enter the party to help give clues. The game ends when the host has correctly guessed all the quirks.

Monday
10/13/03

Monday
10/06/03

Monday
9/29/03

Monday
9/22/03

Monday
9/15/03

Monday
9/08/03

Monday
9/01/03

Monday
8/25/03

Perform Monologues in front of class, on the stage.

Theatre Lecture Power Point - be prepared to take notes

Monday
8/18/03

Monday
1/6/04