Drama 19th September 2012

Heyyy!!!! As always we had an awesome drama lesson!

We started with playing a couple of warm- up games where we would a music piece and we had to make a scene to it and show Ms.Prior. We did this to expand on our creative skills

After Ms.Prior gave us each one card which either had innocent, innocent, judge or guilty. Whatever part we got, we had to play that part and stay in character the whole time. We tried two different scenes, the first one was modern, it was about someone who had stolen someone's $500 and the principle had to find out who took it. The second one was back in the 1690s in Salem and was about witch craft and three girls being accused of using witchcraft. We ( I was one of the innocent ones) got hammered with questions and got interrogated by the judge. We had to turn on each other to get the blame off ourself.
The point of this activity was to be able to play different characters and see the different points of view. Even though I was innocent both times, it was still difficult not getting blamed so we had to make things up and try and accuse the others of the crime.
I agree with what Stanislavski said about if you really believe in your role, then the audience will believe you.
After we made 2 still images with one judge, two accusers and one who was being accused. I was one of the accusers in the beginning. And we all had to make up one very powerful line that we would say repeatedly. Kelsey started first, then Elisa went, then I went and then Michael went. We also had to add movement to make it more powerful and after rehearsing it a couple of times, we thought that the one being accused would be on the floor in the middle and being pulled up and thrown just like a puppet. Since michael (who was the accused one) was not abled to do it, I became the 'puppet' and had to be thrown on the floor by the rest of the group. (It was pretty fun hehe)

Thank you Miss. Prior!!! :))))