Posted by: Ashleigh on: October 27, 2008
Today during our double period, we accomplished so much! Firstly, we changed into our costumes for our dress rehearsal, although it wasn’t really a full rehearsal as we didn’t have make up on, but it definitely helped us get into character! We finally got our normal room back, after the IB art exhibition took over, [...]
Posted by: Ashleigh on: October 25, 2008
Well, during the week, I developed my role as Titania further. At the start I was very uneasy of the thought of performing a Shakespeare monologue, whereas now, I feel more comfortable and much more relaxed about the role I am playing. Ms Anketell helped me work out my movements for my monologue, and helped [...]
Posted by: Ashleigh on: October 18, 2008
On Friday, we watched an interview of John Bell, from the Bell Shakespeare Company. I found this video quite inspiring, not only for Theatre, but for life in general. This interview helped me understand the significance of Shakespeare’s work, and it made me realise that if you can perform Shakespeare well, you are basically a [...]
Posted by: Ashleigh on: October 15, 2008
I’m writing this blog today, not quite knowing how I should express what I’m feeling. I don’t even know what I’m feeling actually!
Yesterday, we found out that Ms Anketell will be leaving us at the end of the year. I think at first, we were all really shocked, because I know, I certainly didn’t [...]
Posted by: Ashleigh on: October 13, 2008
In class Friday, and for our Double today, we worked on our monologues and the iambic pentameter. I can now say, I have a much better understanding of the iambic pentameter, after working on a couple of more monologues.
Today, Ms Anketell and I discussed my monologue, the meaning of it, and where to place [...]
Posted by: Ashleigh on: October 8, 2008
Today we started learning more about the Iambic Pentameter. We got given the prologue from Romeo and Juliet, and we then attempted to clap out the Iambs. I learnt that there are 5 per line, which is where the pentameter comes from. Basically, there’s 5 soft/hards per line, or 5 da-dum’s per line.
Basically, I found [...]
Posted by: Ashleigh on: October 7, 2008
It was our first day back at school today, and its term 4! Which is good in a way, because it’s nearing the end of the year. For our first class of theatre, we chose to do our lighting unit. Which was slightly difficult due to the lack of facilities at our school, but we [...]
