In the morning we received our group scenes and characters for the unit, my group (Demi, Chelsea,Chloe and Chloe P) have been given a scene (act three,scene one) from "The way of the world", a popular restoration comedy written by William Congreve in 1700. My character is called "Peg", "Lady Wishforts" maid. She is rushed off her feet by the Lady.
In the afternoon we did an improvisation exercise, once again we were given handouts about ancient theatre, we had to make them more interesting to make the information sink in to listeners. To engage an audience we added actions and role-play to the information being read out, this means that it should hopefully be much more engaging to watch and listen to.
After this we learnt about mystery and morality plays -see link
http://m.crossref-it.info/articles/147/Mystery-and-morality-plays
We then devised a morality play in groups which involved the seven deadly sins, an average person, a good side, and death, as Morality plays were used to explain how to live a good or just life. Our plays moral was to resist temptation or modern day peer pressure. This was helpful as it encouraged us to be creative in the way we think and devise scenes, plays or anything performance wise!. It taught us that information can sink in better if it is shown in an interesting way, of course at the time these plays were first performed they were performed in this manner so that people could understand them (as the average person wasn't very well educated).
Finally we rehearsed our group scenes ("the way of the world") we managed to block the first page and practise it a few times before the day ended, yet we need to expand on these developments as the blocking we devised isn't set in stone and it could be much improved e.g. the entrance of "Mrs Marwood" needs to be changed as we all ended up blocking each other on the stage.
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