Month: April 2016
Performance Deferred
Due to circumstances beyond our control, we have had to defer the external performance of your “Oh What a Lovely War!” piece until Tuesday 19th of June (a one week deferral).
You will now be timetabled in lessons as normal tomorrow.
Our apologies for the lateness of this notice.
Oh what a lovely war- Working Record
MAIN IDEA:
The main idea of this play is to get the message across that the war generals and propaganda made war seem like it was going to run smoothly and everyone will kill their oppositions. But the reality of war was: soldiers were sleeping in extremely poor conditions, in more detail; rats running across their faces and being exposed to so many pathogens and bacteria that was flying about from other people and also they where being lied to about the dates they where going home, they where told that they where going to be home by Christmas, but the harsh reality was that the only Christmas they saw was stuck in a trench or either stuck in wooden box six feet under.
CHARACTERS:
KARVER- PAST OR FUTURE (CHILD)
JOSE – PRESENT (SOLDIER)
KARVER – FUTURE (DECEASED VETERAN)
DRAMATIC TECHNIQUES:
1) I myself (Karver) am playing the same character, but at two different time-zones e.g, as the child and as the soldier deceased. During these characters I will be doing a spoken thought for each one.
2) Jose is playing the same character throughout but he is telling story while narrating the first stage of mine which he then give me a cue to perform my piece by stands in silence. but while I’m performing he stays completely still to get the message across that I am in-fact the only one meant to be moving.
REHEARSAL TECHNIQUES:
1) The way we rehearsed was to find a quiet space, sit down and say our lines back to back, once we knew our lines we then added the actions and movement into the speech, and once that was perfect we rehearsed the play with all of the spotlights. The final rehearsal was with the costumes;
KARVER:
(CHILD) WHITE SHIRT, GREEN COMBAT TROUSERS, BLACK SHOES AND TWO MILITARY ACTION FIGURES.
(DECEASED SOLDIER) BLACK DOUBLE BREASTED BLAZER, BLACK TROUSERS , WHITE SHIRT , BLACK TIE AND BLACK SHOES.
JOSE:
(SOLDIER)
CAMOUFLAGE TROUSERS, CAMOUFLAGE COMBAT TROUSERS, CAMEL COLOURED SAFETY VEST, BLACK TRAINERS (AS BOOTS WHERE SCARCE TO FIND) AND A FULL SCALE UNLOADED TACTICAL PAINT-BALL GUN (FOR DECORATION)
ORDER OF LIGHTS AND SOUNDS USED
1) RED SPOTLIGHT FOLLOWED BY GUNSHOT SOUNDS, RED SPOTLIGHT TO REPRESENT DANGER IN THE SCENE AND GUNSHOT SOUNDS TO SHOW WHAT SETTING AND ATMOSPHERE JOSE IS CURRENTLY PLACED
2) NO LIGHT AT-ALL FOLLOWED BY A OLDEN DAY RADIO BROADCAST, AN OLDEN TIME RADIO BROADCAST TO GIVE THE MESSAGE OF THE WW1 ERA AND LIFESTYLE.
3) RED SPOTLIGHT ON JOSE AS HE IS SPEAKING FROM HIS NOTEPAD, RED SPOTLIGHT FOR EMOTION AND WARMTH
4) NO LIGHT AT-ALL FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER OLDEN DAY RADIO BROADCAST, TO GIVE AN ATMOSPHERE IF THE WW1 LIFESTYLE
5) WHITE SPOTLIGHT ON KARVER (ME) WHILE I PLAY THE ROLE AS THE CHILD, A WHITE SPOTLIGHT TO REPRESENT DAY TIME AND HAPPINESS AND A CHILD
TO SHOW THE PERSPECTIVE OF A CHILD AND HOW PROPAGANDA INFLUENCED YOUNG CHILDREN TO FIGHT FOR THERE COUNTRY, AND LASTLY TOYS TO SYMBOLISE MY MOTIVATION AND MY REASON TO WANT TO JOIN THE ARMY AND FIGHT FOR MY COUNTRY AND MOTHER.
6) RED SPOTLIGHT WITH A HINT OF WHITE SPOTLIGHT FOR JOSE WHILE HE IS SPEAKING WITH ME GETTING CHANGED INTO MY FUNERAL SCENE WHERE I AM DECEASED
7) WHITE SPOTLIGHT ON KARVER (ME) WHILE I PERFORM MY ROLE AS A DECEASED VETERAN, WHITE SPOTLIGHT TO REPRESENT DAYTIME AND RESPECT
8) ALL LIGHTS GO OFF AND THE REMEMBRANCE DAY TUNE SOUNDS TO REPRESENT THE LOSS OF SOLDIERS
9) RED SPOTLIGHTS ON JOSE AS HE PERFORMS HIS FINAL SPEECH, THE RED SPOTLIGHTS ARE TO GET ACROSS THE FEELING OF WARMTH AND EMOTION
10) ALL SPOTLIGHTS GO OFF ACCEPT THE RED SPOTLIGHT FOLLOWED BY THE SOUND OF MACHINE GUN FIRE, RED SPOTLIGHT FOR A SENSE OF DANGER
11) ALL LIGHTS GO OFF AND THERE IS SILENCE, PITCH BLACK TO REPRESENT SUSPENSE
12) RED SPOTLIGHT SHINES ON THE NOTEPAD JOSE WAS READING/WRITING FROM, RED SPOTLIGHT TO REPRESENT EMOTION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL UNDERSTANDING
END OF PLAY
COMPARE EXTREME EMOTIONS ARE PORTRAYED IN MACBETH AND A CHRISTMAS CAROL
PARAGRAPH 1
Macbeth:
In the beginning of the play Macbeth, the emotions being portrayed are shocked and disbelief, Macbeth is told Banquo is going to be king and he himself will be the thane of Cawdor and he doesn’t like that. So he starts having a go at the witches complaining about why he has to be the thane of Cawdor and at the end of the scene he says ” stands not within the prospect of belief, meaning that he has made a decision of him not believing what he has just heard about the future.
Scrooge:
In the beginning of the novel A Christmas , the emotions being portrayed are spitefulness and lack of sympathy, This happens when Scrooge is approached by a charity worker and asked to make a small contribution to the less fortunate and the dying and Scrooge replies by saying “if they would rather die, they had better do it and decrease the surplus population. That tells me that Scrooge is heartless and doesn’t care about what is being said and he doesn’t care about other peoples feelings.
Conclusion:
In conclusion both protagonists have different types of emotions but they have the same mentality when it comes to anger. the reason why I say that because when Macbeth got angry he demanded the witches to tell him more and when he gets angry because he doesn’t get his own way, which in Scrooges case is the same because when he told the charity worker to leave him alone the first time and the charity worker just begged him even more to contribute Scrooge said what he said about them needing to die more quicker in order to decrease the large population. so in conclusion when it comes to anger both Macbeth and Scrooge can relate.
PARAGRAPH 2
Macbeth:
Towards the middle of the of the play, the emotions being portrayed are confusion and disbelief, Lady Macbeth gets into Macbeths head and forces him to go and kill Banquo and when Macbeth is making his way to Banquo he starts to have hallucinations and he starts to question why he has a dagger in each hand and then he feels the need to hold them and then he the starts not to believe that the daggers are real which leads me to the emotion he is feeling is confusion.
Scrooge:
Towards the middle of the story, the emotions being portrayed are fear and stubbornness, Scrooge gets a visit from the ghost of Christmas past which his best friend Marley that passed away and when Scrooge doesn’t listen, Marley tell him that he is here to make Scrooge realize that the way he treated people was horrible and that no one will like him in the future and Scrooge chooses to ignore him and Marley leaves and that tells me that Scrooge is very stubborn and doesn’t like to be told the truth about him self.
Conclusion:
In conclusion Macbeth and Scrooges emotions are completely opposite but there is some similarities within both there situations, In Macbeths case he is being forced to kill his Friend over a title of authority and power but Scrooge is being forced to have a look at his previous ways in terms of attitude and how he treated people. In conclusion both Scrooge and Macbeth can relate in terms of the situations they are in.
PARAGRAPH 3
Macbeth:
In the middle and towards the end of the play, the emotions being portrayed are guilt and hesitation, Macbeth is having a banquet with everyone and there is a spare seat and Macbeth starts to act weird and he freaks out because he has seen Banquo’s ghost, but Macbeth thinks that it is the real Banquo and not realizes that its just a ghost and he then turns to Lady Macbeth and says to her that his mind is full of scorpions and how Banquo is still alive and that tells me that when he saw Banquo’s ghost he did not want anything to to with him because he is guilty that he killed his best friend for a title of power and authority.
Scrooge:
In the middle and towards the end of the play, the emotions being portrayed are understanding and guilt, Scrooge gets a visit from the ghost of Christmas present and it tells him that what he is doing now is wrong and he is heavily hated by the community that he lives in and if he carries on that way he will die a lonely man and once again Scrooge doesn’t listen to the advice being given and he carries on. But then he gets another visit, this time its from the ghost of Christmas future and it shows him his future and that he is spending the rest of his days lonely and no one even noticing him while he walks down the street and Scrooge realized what he has done has totally made him a very hated man and he doesn’t like that.
Conclusion:
In conclusion Macbeth’s and Scrooges emotions are the same because even though they both have done different things, they both have affected somebody whether its physical or mental and in that aspect they can both relate to each-other because they eventually realize near the end of the story that what they have done is indeed wrong and need to find a way to change what has happened is wrong.
PARAGRAPH 4
MACBETH:
At the end of the play, the emotions that are being portrayed are fear and merciless, At the end of the story it comes out that Macbeth was the one that murdered Banquo for his title and Lady Macbeth ends up taking her own life so her name does not have her name being brought up in the situation, and Macbeth finally comes to his senses and realizes that he played himself by listening to lady Macbeth. in the end he goes top battle and runs into Banquos son Fleance, they fight each-other and Fleance ends up killing Macbeth and beheading him as revenge for his father being killed.
SCROOGE:
At the end of the story, the emotions being portrayed are remorse and happiness, Scrooge now realizes he needs to change his ways, so on Christmas morning he makes his way to his colleagues house on his way he greets everybody and tells them merry Christmas, he also spots the charity worker and apologizes and gives him a small donation, and when he gets to his colleagues house he offers him a pay rise and will on top help him out will his family and their struggles.
CONCLUSION:
In conclusion, Macbeth and scrooge both have remorse in common because they both have either physically or mentally hurt someone and they begin to realize its time to change but Scrooge does and Macbeth becomes even more savage until his reign of terror has ended as revenge form Banquos son Fleance because Macbeth was the one responsible for killing his Father for the title of king.
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