Drama- 13th September 2012

Drama lesson 13th September

Heyy!
Today was such an amazing drama lesson!We started off with rehearsing our Opening of the play and changing our body language, voice, eye contact and movement. I changed some of my movement coming towards the end when Mrs.Putnam says '' ....Colin's saw her goin' over the Proctor's barn, and come down as light as a bird. He says!'' at that point, we thought ( to make it more interesting) that I should stand up and go over to a cart and make some tea, however I would still make it obvious that I was listening deeply in their conversation. I also had to find the right time to come back to my original seat after making the tea. Another thing we changed was that I was instructed to stand up when the reverend talks about my name being white in the village. I had to pretend as if my name was white even though I knew that it was not after my 'deed'
After that, Ms.Prior filmed our piece and when she put it on Youtube, I watched it and thought about what was good, and what wasn't as good. I relalised that when I went over to make the tea, it made the scene less boring because there was more movement involved. After we went on to talking about another scene in the play, which included two reverends, reverend Parris and reverned Hale. This scene starts with the reverends discussing something not loud enough for the audience to hear, when Abbie comes in and reverend Hales starts interrogating Abbie and asking her questions about 'The Night'. When Tituba enters the room, Abbie blames everything on her and the reverends start to believe her. We made a brainstorm about this scene and we talked about what sort of questions Reverend Hale would ask Abbie and what the answers would be. We decided to make it so that Abigail would answer wrong and Reverend Hale will know that she is lying. 
We then went on to devising the scene and this was the cast list and their status level:

Reverend Hale- Elisa 9
Reverend Parris- Michael 8
Tituba- Kelsey 1- 0
Abigail- Me (Tash) 8- 5- 8

Improvising the scene would quite difficult because it just seemed hard to stay in character the whole time without loosing focus for a second. But it was very different from what we normally do because in this scene, I had to make up answers on the spot and I would have to remember all the facts and figures so I do not get all the answers wrong. We also had to find the right timing for Tituba come in to the scene because if it was too soon then we could not build up to the blame and if it was too late then we wouldn't have enough questions and it could b one quite dull.
Even though it was difficult it was fun to try something new!!
Thank you for reading this!!!! Hope it wasn't too boring :)