Theare workshop 13th nov

Theare work shop 13th nov

Ensemble work

All hands on base

 All sides of the room are named starboard, port and side and all actions for the middle of the room are given freeze middle and apples. Actors had to run to the wall/ as soon as possible. I feel this game made us physically warmed up and helped actors to be active with their creativity side. This helped with ensemble work mainly because all actors need to be active and alive on stage and ready to respond to each other in ensemble work.

The Name Game
This involved doing group activity’s Doing warm ups, the Actors all stood in a circle. Each Actor said somebody else’s name, this was until everyone's name has been said and remembered. Then a pattern of rhyme was formed. The same thing happened when actors had to walk to somebody else this had to be a different person from the person’s name you said and lastly throwing and catching a ball, until three different patterns was formed. Actors then had to say the same pattern of names, walking and throwing at the same time with paste. For me as a learning actor I found this exercise very annoying I feel when there is concentration and a level of force you can achieve a goal but without that you will continue to fail. I fell like the actors found it confusing and didn’t listen to each other as a group but this is what is needed when you are being an ensemble or on stage as a group.



Battle of moves

This was a dance kind of battle inspired exercise. Actors was split into two different teams and each team had an leading actor as team captain and the captain made a move to intimidate the other team, which then the rest of the actors behind the captain would then copy. This mainly helped to look in to different movement. This then lead into actors going into groups and intimidating individuals with a certain move, then coming together as an ensemble the groups then got  bigger and brought all  moves together, until then there were two competing ensemble. We all joined in on this exercise. This helps us all came together and be more connected as an ensemble.

The last part of the ensemble work was doing still images inspired by crimes against humanity. The first part actors were given was 'War Torn Syria'. A member of the group went into the space one at a time and gradually the whole class bounced off the physical still images that other actors had created until we had a complete still image. Some actors were tapped out and were asked what their character though in that moment would be. Some answers were 'Fear' and 'Horror' for example. Most people saw this scene as a serious, gory scene of bloodshed and fear. In response to that actors then was asked to create a still image of what, 'Apocalyptic Britain' would look like. Actors made a still scene with people being zombies being eaten and praying for it to end and people crying. To represent this. as a link to 'Blondie' I feel it was interesting actors obviously took the Syria’s much more seriously and has that respect because it’s a real thing that goes on but the idea that a such thing as  'Apocalyptic Britain'  would ever happen actors probably  thought this exercise appose to the Syria much more childlike and funny.