Creating a role

How to create a role.

A Role on the Wall

1. Choose a script: put it on your blog, your device/phone, copy it onto paper, print it out
2. You need to LEARN the words
3. Role on the Wall - what do you know about your character? Use the questions below to create a picture of your character
4. You can "draw" a role on the wall or do short answers to the questions

Who am I?Think about what your character is like in terms of personality.

What are my given circumstances?Think about your recent past and how this has affected you and brought you to where you are.

What are my relationships?Think about your relationship with other characters, events and things that surround you.

What is my objective? Why?This is what you want, your motivation or reason for action is.

What must I overcome?This is the problem that is stopping you from getting your objective; this is what you need to overcome to reach your goal.

What is my action?This is what you do to overcome your obstacle and attempt to reach your goal.

What is a theatre style?

We talked about Level NCEA today - currently we have been studying musicals [and this will be in the year 10 exam at the end of the year]. We finished watching High School Musical 2, you will need to write about one musical you know well in the exam.
 Here is a swimming pool scene on stage.

This is the description for tone of the Level 1 exams. 

Demonstrate understanding of features of a drama/theatre form

4 credits

External

1          A drama/theatre form could include but is not limited to:

·         clowning

·         Elizabethan theatre

·         Greek theatre

·         kabuki theatre

·         medieval drama

·         melodrama

·         mime

·         musical theatre

·         pantomime

·         puppetry.

2          Features of the form could include but are not limited to:

·         performance space (eg medieval use of pageant wagons)

·         acting styles (eg the extravagant gestures of Commedia dell’Arte)

·         themes or ideas (eg the Elizabethan wheel of fortune)

·         purpose (eg medieval exploration of Bible stories)

·         conventions (eg use of asides in melodrama)

·         use of technologies (eg mask in Greek theatre)

·         historical/social context (eg the Great Depression in New Zealand theatre).

Cabaret

http://www.broadwaymusicalhome.com/shows/cabaret.htm

What is the FOCUS [the message/s] of the  musical Cabaret?

Use a SEXY paragraph to answer.

Chose your piece and learn your lines

http://www.ace-your-audition.com/monologues-for-teens.html

http://monologuesforallages.webs.com/teenagers-12-19

http://www.durandbulldogs.com/pdfs/highschool/hsactivities/drama/monologue.pd


Choose a solo piece and copy it to your blog - you may also send it to your phone to help learn the words.
How can I learn my lines?

Once you have chosen your audition script you MUST learn your lines!

Learn LINES

1.Chose a study partner. Ready your lines OUT LOUD to them 20 times.

2.Then - copy your lines out 5 times.

3.ANNOTATE you script

When is a Musical an Opera?

Today we watched Cats

 and Phantom of the Opera

On our blogs we will put  a short description of each musical/ opera and a picture or video clip.
Then ANSWER these 2 questions-

1.When does a Musical become an Opera?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/opera/10220403/West-Side-Story-musical-or-opera.html

2. How do costumes enhance the roles in these musicals? Illustrate your answer with pictures.

Chicago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2oKhHCaMEo
Found out more about Chicago

Annotating script

Learning Objectives

1. Read script with meaning
2. Annotate - make notes on your script
3. Find the Given Circumstances [What are Given Circumstances?}
4. Find a Youtube clip from Chicago and list 10 adjectives to describe this musical.

http://stageagent.com/monologues

Here are some monologues from musicals - we will use some to do annotation in class.