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Emotions, Emotions Everywhere!!!
Today our teacher was absent and she left us a group activity.
She made our groups for us (I was with Maragret and Lola) and we were told to devise a piece expressing one emotion. So we chose to explore the emotion of JEALOUSY.
(yeah the picture above pretty much summarises our scene perefctly)
Okay so this is what happens in the scene:
What we do in the scene :
Lola and marge hold hands and talk excitedly.
Lola lets go of marges hands
Marge reaches out to me
I grab her hand
She embraces me
I talk excitedly to her
I let go of her hand
She goes to another girl while Lola and I are jealous
Marge sleeps and we step on her symbolises her death and that we wanted to kill her
These were the elements of our performance:
Freeze frames (tableaus)
Repeated movements (reaching out hands)
Symbolic movement ( stepping of Margaret)
After we devided our piece we were also meant to answer the following questions:
Who did you work with?
Margaret and Lola
What was the topic/focus of the lesson?
Emotions, in particular the emotion of Jealousy
What were the aims and goals of the workshop?
Successfully convey the emotion using mime
What do you feel you achieve individually and as a group?
Individual- mime skills and understanding of the different emotions that go hand in hand with Jealousy such as anger, denial and sadness.
As a group - team work and cohesiveness
How important was this week to your growth as a drama student? Why?
This week was very theory based which was very helpful as I can now use the theory component of drama and link it to the things we are doing in class and how it links to Artaud.
Explain your understanding of the difference between Artaud’s philosophies and the traditions of theatre.
The traditions of theatre used very unrealistic emotions whereas Artaud used realistic emotions of a human and amplified them to make them almost unrealistic.
Dinner smells nice :)
Toodles!
S