Ashleigh’s IB Theatre Journal

On Wednesday, the 16th of April, I saw As You Like It by the Bell Shakespeare Company, at the Clock Tower Theatre in Moonee Ponds.
I wrote a perfomance analysis on the play today, and basically, I thought the play was too long, and even though the director added music,song and dance to the play to [...]

This week we continued with our rehearsals of Tartuffe. We decided to push back our perfomance until the 5th of May, and only do Act 2 Scenes 1 and 2, instead of Scene 3 as well. We took Mariane’s monologue from Act 4 Scene 3 and insterted it into the end of Act 2,Scene 2, [...]

On Monday, the 7th of April, we started rehearsing our scenes from Tartuffe. (Act 2), The scence where Orgon tells Mariane of his plans for her to marry Tartuffe, and the lovers tiff between Valere and Mariane.
On Monday, I shared my set design with the class, and suggestions were made on how to make the design [...]

On Monday, the first day of term 2, we watched a documentry from the ABC called “In the Company of Actors”. It was a behind the scenes look at Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen. I found this documentry inspiring, and it got me thinking that I would love to be a stage manager. It was [...]