Unit 4:

Monday 22nd January 2018

For our first lesson, I had a drama lesson with Rob. For our starter we was told to go in a circle and do some warm-ups together. This is useful is it helps us to be more focused and ready to learn. We then went to the theatre as it was free and sat in the audience whilst Rob gave everyone else their roles. After that he then told us to go into four different groups (4 acts) that each of our characters were in. This is useful as it helps us to get get to know the scene more better. We then went through the scene and read through each line had said. This is also helpful as it helps us to learn our lines Then two groups performed their acts for us and Rob told two students to sit at the back of the auditorium and to see if he can hear them.

For our second lesson, we had a drama lesson with Rob. For our starter

1. Given circumstances
-where are they
-what is happening
-think relationships

2. "all actions in the stage space must be purposeful, do,not act in general. have an inner justification".

3. Play your objectives

4. READ THE PLAY

5. Through lines.

Tuesday 23rd January 2018

For our first lesson we had a tutorial lesson with Rob. He told us to go on our blogs and update them more for everyone to be up to date what happens next.

For our second lesson we had a drama lesson with Rob. For our starter we went in a circle and done some vocal warm-ups. This is very useful as it helps us to with our articulation. Then when we started to go through the play we was assigned our characters and then we went in turns to perform our act. This is good as it helps us to learn our lines and get used to the set. As we went through the set Rob told us to stop and start so we could add in different things in the scenes. This helped us as it helped us to progress through our acts and to see how everything looks so far. We then got some feedback at the end to tell us what we need to do to improve.

Wednesday 24th January 2018

(no lesson)

Thursday 25th January 2018

For our first lesson we was meant to have a lesson but it got cancelled.

For our second lesson we

Last lesson got cancelled.

Friday 26th January 2018

(no lessons)

The three sisters

Monday 8th January 2018

For our first lesson we had a drama lesson with Rob. For our starter he told us to stand in a circle and tell everyone how our christmas and new years holiday was and what we got. We were also told to tell everyone what was our new years resolution. A couple peoples new years resolution was to make money but my one was different to everyone else's in the class. My other new years resolution was to stop fighting as i love to fight. This is useful as it helps everyone to know something about everyone in the class even if it is something small. We Then got told to sit in a circle whist he gives us our new assignment. Our new assignment was based on a play called 'the three sisters'. The three sisters is a play by the Russian author and play wright Anton Chekhov. It was written in 1900 and first performed in 1901 at the Moscow Art Theatre. But the play was re-printed by the author Benedict Andrews in 2012. The play 'The Three Sisters' is about three sisters: Olga, Masha and Irina Prozorov. The sisters waste their lives away in a Russian provincial town and dream about returning to Moscow, the big city where they grew up. Irina is the youngest of the prozorov sisters and you can see this through the way she acts. Masha is the middle sister. She wears black and is married to a dull-as-dishwater school teacher. Olga (Caretaker) is the oldest sister. She's kind of like Varya in the cherry orchard. She takes care of the house, her sisters and the servants.

Unit 4:social context























How do we make Shakespeare relevant in 2017?

Shakespeare's influence on the English language runs very deep. Shakespeare is often identified as a sole user or first user of a first user of a word or phrase. For example, When William Shakespeare wrote the play Romeo and Juliet in 1595, he used English language to paint an imagery of both figurative and sensory language in order the portray the characters feelings and beliefs. One good place that the audience need to understand  the use of language and imagery in the opening the scene when we first meet Romeo.

Theme:

The theme of Romeo and Juliet is: The forcefulness of love. Romeo and Juliet is the most famous love story in the English literary tradition. The play focuses on Romantic love, specifically the intense passion the springs up at first sight between Romeo and Juliet.

Social context:

The most influencial writer in all of literature, william Shakespeare was born in 1564 to a successful middle-glove maker in stratford-upon-Avon, England. Shakespeare attended grammar school but his formal education proceeded no further. In 1582, he married an older woman and had 3 kids with her. But in 1590, he chose to leave his family and proceed with his dream to become an actor and he took this chance o travel the world learning new things as he went along. After Shakespeare went on tour people could see the progress he was making with his play writes and got given the most popular play write in England and part owner of the globe theatre.

What makes Romeo and Juliet so special is how Shakespeare tells the story. It has perhaps become his best-known play. Romeo and Juliet has been filmed many times and has adapted in all different ways. For instance, there are cartoon versions for the children, older versions with the rude jokes taken out, and others set with gang fights in the US.
There are also countless references of him in books, songs and normal conversations. For instance, a young lad who goes out with a lot of girls is called a `romeo`.
The play also uses a lot of expressions that Shakespeare invented and are still in use today, such as "on a wild goose chase"  or "fools paradise". More recently builders, have started to use juliets balcony(although many of them now spell it `Juliette balcony). This is a very shallow balcony with a rail in front of a patio door.