The devising skills discussed in the lesson were improvisation, trial and error, discussion and responding to the stimulus. I am most confident discussing ideas for a piece rather than just improvising straight away. I find it easier to create more of a structure for the piece rather than go straight into it, although this can lead to too much time talking and failing to actually get the ideas on their feet.
Children's theatre:
Childrens theatre is valuble because it can teach them things they dont learn at school such a morals. It also allows the children to express themselves creatively when getting involved in a play. It is much easier to teach and engage children as they are so eager and the lessons they learn through theatre and as a young child will stay with them throughout their lives.
Polka theatre:
The polka theatre is a theatre dedicated to children, where the put on plays for babies to teenagers, allowing them to experience theatre for free. They are a charity theatre, that allow children to read books, play in the playground, aswell as watch plays. At the moment they have a play called Puss in Boots on, which is based on the popular fairytale. Because this theatre only performs to children, they know exactly how to entertain them and keep them interested in the play. This will help us because we can use some of their ideas and incorporate it into our theatre piece to make it more exciting for the children.
Unicorn Theatre:
At the moment they are showing a variety of children's plays including one called The Polar Bears Gone Wild about two polar bears who go on an adventure of a lifetime. At the unicorn they show plays for people of all ages, which will help us create a piece that is entertaining for the children but also has a message for our peers watching.
Log Questions:
In todays lesson we watched a reading of an awesome book and were given the section we'd be focusing on. We were then put into small groups and had to pick out the different characters, atmospheres and places in the book. Once we did that, we had to create a small piece in responce to it and any dialogue used had to rhyme.
My group decided to focus on the section where it says some people have forgotten how to dream. We came up with ideas to become different characters that children could dream about. For example, Benji became a spy and started car wheeling around the stage. We also wanted to involve the audience, so we had a song from a popular childrens song and had eric, as the pirate, to sing a line and have the audience sing back to him and copy the actions. We thought this was a good idea because children get bored and distracted easily so by interacting them we're keeping them engaged.
Some ideas we rejected because they made the piece too complicated. One of them was to have rory as the son and eric as the dad to come in half way through because he's forgotten how to dream. When trying out this idea, we felt it limited the development of the other characters, such as benji as a spy and me as a fairy; and these characters were much more fun for children. Its important to try out and reject ideas because from this idea we decided to keep rory as a little boy who would narate the piece and the rest of us would be different made up characters surrounding him.
For our piece we are using rhyming and music in order to engage the children. Rhyming the dialogue makes it easier for the children to concentrate because it's more like a song and easy to listen to. Also, our use of a song, which comes from a popular children's show, means the children will feel involved and will be able to interact with us which will stop them from getting bored. We also physicalised a lot of the words being said. So when a character is announced, like an astronaut, we will all become astronauts to make it more visually interesting because obviously not all the children will be able to understand what we're saying.
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