Shakespeare Fandango Puppet Project Assigned

Our Shakespeare Fandango Puppet Project have been , so we went into the library to start researching plays, and any possible and easy plays. Our group consisted of Vineeth, Alice, Jason, and Elissa. We expressed interest in the plays Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, and Taming of the Shrew. However, while in the library, Vineeth expressed interest in transferring out of MYP Drama into MYP Art. It was also an option that I was considering, but nothing to serious. However, in the process Alice and Jason also expressed interest. So, Elissa, being afraid that we would go through with this switched into another group, forming a group of seven.

Only Vineeth went through with this switch leaving Jason, Alice, and I being a group of three. I guess this means slightly more work for each of us, but then there are less people that we will have to maneuver around while performing.

Romeo and Juliet Prologue Final Performance

Because Mrs. Weil was sick on the 21st, our scheduled day to perform, we instead performed today. I think that our group's performance was decent, nothing too special.

The regular Romeo and Juliet prologue needed a little more work on the coordination between Rikelle's narration voice over and our group's movements. According to Mrs. Weil we also could've been a little more enthusiastic in our performance and added more energy to not only for the audience's benefit, but for ours as well.

Our modern adaptation was stronger, and Mrs. Weil said she could feel the energy and she knew we enjoyed ourselves a lot more with that. It seemed as if the audience also had a more positive response to our second performance.

Overally, the Romeo and Juliet Prologue Performances were a great learning experience! :)

Romeo and Juliet Prologue Final Rehearsals

The past few days in drama have been dedicated to practicing for the Romeo and Juliet prologue performances. The roles assigned to each person in our group are as follows...
Rikelle: Narrator
Crystal: Juliet/ Daughter of McDonald's owner
Aisha: Juliet's mother/ McDonald's owner
Jason: Romeo/ Son of KFC's owner
Daniella: Romeo's mother/ KFC's owner

We worked out acceptable and appropriate movements for the actual prologue and then began to work on our modern-day development. Daniella suggested we use fast food chains as a sort-of-metaphor. So we decided that our modern-day development would be the children of the fast-food rivals McDonald's and KFC falling in love.

I think our performance has the aptitude to be very strong; we just need to work out some glitches. (i.e. enthusiasm, energy, etc.)

Romeo and Juliet Prologue Performances

Today we received our Romeo and Juliet modernized Performance. We are supposed to perform the original prologue along with movements, and adapt it into a modern version and choreograph that as well. This will hopefully help with our next project, being the Shakespeare Puppet Performances where we will have to modernize a whole play.

Here is the original prologue:
Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
Where ancient grudge break into new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.
From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life.
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Do with their death bury their parents' strife.
The fearful passage of their death-mark'd love,
And the continuance of their parents' rage,
Which, but their children's end, nought could remove,
Is not the two hours' traffic of our stage;
The which if you with patient ears attend,
What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

Our groups were assigned to us, and my group is Jason, Rikelle, Daniella, and Aisha. Rikelle generously agreed to be narrator for both scenes! That will be a lot of memorization.

I hope that starting out with adapting a smaller piece into a modern version will help us for the upcoming project.

First Few Weeks of Drama

In the first few weeks of drama, we have played games in order to create a more comfortable atmosphere in our drama class. We've played games to get to know our fellow classmates better and help us edge a little bit out of our comfort zone.
Some of the games we played were...
-"Caw-caw!"
- "Whoosh!"
- Trust games
- Irish duels
And many more...

I felt that this period of time in drama was a lot of fun and it helped me to learn more about myself and what I feel comfortable with. It was cool to get to know the poeple in my class in such a unique way.

The first few weeks of drama were a success! :)