Ashleigh’s IB Theatre Journal

Archive for August 2008

Bunraku – The Love Suicides at Sonezaki

Posted by: Ashleigh on: August 25, 2008

Process of creating our performance of The Love Suicides at Sonezaki

Read Script of The Love Suicides to get an understanding of the story line and the characters.
Created our own individual storyboards, to get an idea of the visual aspects of the play. Combined our ideas and our storyboard ,and came up with a plan of [...]

Update

Posted by: Ashleigh on: August 19, 2008

I’m now nearly finished my Research Investigation on “How would the puppets, musicians, narrator and puppeteers be costume in a Bunraku production of The Love Suicides at Sonezaki”.
 I realised how my research investigation can help my Theatre Class with our own performance of The Love Suicides. I can apply my knowledge of what I have [...]

Our Puppets & More Laban

Posted by: Ashleigh on: August 5, 2008

On Monday, during the double period, we practised the Laban movement, by doing numerous exercises. We were all a bit hesitant about performing our scenes at the beginning of the period, I knew I felt that I wasn’t in the mood, to do the ’slash’.
These exercises helped me to further understand the Laban movement, by [...]

Laban

Posted by: Ashleigh on: August 3, 2008

On Friday, the 1st of August, We started to learn about Laban and his movements.
We started by, learning ‘dab’, which involved “dabbing” objects lightly. I associated the dab, with being calm, and slightly stuck up.
Secondly, the flick, which involved flicking objects, such as, to flick a bit of cotton off a jumper. I thought [...]

Hamlet Review

Posted by: Ashleigh on: August 3, 2008

On Tuesday, the 29th of July, I saw the Bell Shakespeare’s version of Hamlet. We then discussed the play in class the following day.
Some of the first things I noticed about the perfomance were

Costumes used, were also used in As You Like It and Macbeth ( although there was no proof, I noticed costumes didn’t [...]



  • Mrs Anketell: It sounds absolutely beautiful.
  • spiraltic: hey there, I'm taking IBHL theater right now...and I'm also doing a research investigation on bunraku...do you think you can point me in the right dir
  • Melisa Garcia: Hello! I am investigating about Bunraku too for my final Research Investigation (in the Theatre IB course), and unbelievably I am focusing on costu

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