March 27, 2017 - March 31, 2017 Weekly Agenda for Play Production

Monday, March 27th: 
 

Visit by Constance Pang from “Young Arts” and “Spotlight”

Worked on For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls

Jessalie and Christopher

Tuesday, March 28th:  
Worked with For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls
Jessalie, Chris, Millenia, Akili
Blocked up to page 18 -
Ginny, "I didn't get too much of that...." 

Hope and Jessyka - Women in a Playground

Wednesday, March 29th: 

Finished blocking “For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls”

Jessalie, Christopher, Millenia, Akili

Stage Managers: Modi and Gus

Thursday, March 30th: 
Beginning working on Nina in the Morning 
Elizabeth, Montserrat, Celeste, Bree-Anna

Friday, March 31st: 
No school today in observance of Cesar Chavez' birthday! 

  

Play Production Durang Show

6^th Period Durang Scenes

Tech Only:

Jackie, Daniel, Leilani

1-900-Desperate

Beverly, Christopher, Anton, Michelle, Chynna, Dale

DMV Tyrant

Chynna, Christopher

Nina in the Morning
Montserrat, Elizabeth, Celeste, Bree-Anna

For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls

Jess – Amanda

Chris – Lawrence

Akili – Tom
 Millenia - Gina

Beyond Therapy

Carter

Dale

Mrs. Sorkin

Miriam

Canker Sores and Other Distractions

Samantha, Norman, Emily

Not Cast Yet

Tais, Hope, Modi, Annie, Jessyka, 

March 20, 2017 - March 24, 2017

Monday, March 20th: 

Students create new acting games.

Chynna and Akili: Taxi/Dance

Three students in a dance class, lead by a dance teacher. Teacher leads the dance which expresses an emotion.  The dance teacher finds a reason to leave the class and a student steps forward and becomes the dance teacher, leading the class in a different dance expressing a different emotion.

Carter: People lie on the floor, feet touching, hands touching. The teacher calls out an emotion and people make a sound and a movement expressing that emotion.

Me: Students say a line from a play they are working on and the students react to the line with a sound and a movement. 

Read: Beyond Therapy, Act 1, Scenes 1 and 2

Carter: Prudence

Bruce: Hope

Stuart: Akili

Tuesday, March 21st: 
Tech only: Jackie, Daniel, Leilani 
 Read:  1-900-Desperate
Beverly, Christopher, Anton, Michelle, Chynna, Dale 

DMV Tyrant 
Bree-anna

Wednesday, March 22nd:
Chynna and Dale led class in theatre games: "Prom Couples"

The following students want to do tech only:

Jackie, Daniel, Leilani

1-900-Desperate

Beverly, Christopher, Anton, Michelle, Chynna, Dale

DMV Tyrant
Chynna and Chris

For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls

Jess – Amanda

Chris – Lawrence

Tom – Akili

Gina – Millenia

Beyond Therapy

Carter

Dale

Mrs. Sorkin

Miriam

Canker Sores and Other Distractions

Samantha, Norman, Emily

Diversions - 10

Women on a Playground - 2

Phyllis and Xenobia -2

Thursday, March 23rd: 
Passed out scripts for For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls for them to do initial read-through
Passed out scripts for 1-900-Desperate for them to do initial read-through

Had Samantha, Norman, and Emily take a picture of Canker Sores and Other Distractions 
Had Miriam take a picture of Mrs. Sorkin 

Not cast:
Tais Borges Do Carmo, Hope Cardona,, Annie K., Bree-Anna, Jessyka Moreno, Celeste Plata,

Tech people:
Leilani, Daniel, Jacqueline, Modi, Gus

Friday, March 24th:  

Copy out your scenes by hand! Copying the scene by hand helps actors memorize the scene! And if you happen to lose your script, then you have a back-up handy.

Everyone stands in a circle and says with the appropriate emotion a line from her/his script that captures the character.  If you do not have a script yet, say a line that expresses how you are feeling at the moment.

Emotional Cocktail with a twist - the actors are playing their characters with their objectives and issues.

Emotional Cocktail participants: Chynna, Miriam,  Dale, Chris, Millenia

Assigned Nina in the Morning to Montserrat and Elizabeth.

Worked with Miriam on Mrs Sorkin

Modi – assistant director, taking notes and blocking.

Meisner Acting Exercise

Meisner Acting Exercise:

Returning alumnus: Amber Florin!

Lead an acting exercise: 

Meisner

Actors partner up

Actor A and B

Close eyes and visualize the other person as someone you care about.

Person A says  "Yes!" Person B says "No!" 

Continue going back and forth.

Then switch - Person A says, "No!" and Person B says "Yes!" 

Continue going back and forth.

Then change to "Screw You!" Both A and B say, "Screw You" and go back and forth.

Then switch to "Why?" Both A and B ask, "Why?" and go back and forth.

Then stop, breathe in the other person's essence and say, "I am sorry". 

 Both A and B say, "I'm sorry" and switch, going back and forth. 

Then stop and look deep into the other person's eyes: this is the person you are fighting for. 

March 13, 2017 - March 17, 2017 Weekly Agenda for Play Production

For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls 

Monday, March 13th: 
Guest Speaker - Eleanor Owens

Tuesday, March 14th: 
Guest Artist: 
Returning alumnus: Amber Florin!
Lead an acting exercise: 
Meisner
Actors partner up
Actor A and B
Close eyes and visualize the other person as someone you care about.
Person A says  "Yes!" Person B says "No!" 
Continue going back and forth.
Then switch - Person A says, "No!" and Person B says "Yes!" 
Continue going back and forth.
Then change to "Screw You!" Both A and B say, "Screw You" and go back and forth.
Then switch to "Why?" Both A and B ask, "Why?" and go back and forth.
Then stop, breathe in the other person's essence and say, "I am sorry". 
 Both A and B say, "I'm sorry" and switch, going back and forth. 
Then stop and look deep into the other person's eyes: this is the person you are fighting for. 

Begin reading: 
 For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls


Wednesday, March 15th: 

Warm-up:

            Walk about, whisper what you are feeling, scream what you are feeling,

            Scream without words, scream and attach a movement to it expressing what

            you are feeling.

            Finish reading For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls

            Christopher – Lawrence

            Dale – Tom

            Jess – Amanda

            Elizabeth/Millenia - Betty

Thursday, March 16th: 
Warm-up:

Freeze-Tag with Object

Read The Actor’s Nightmare - did not finish.

Dale, Elizabeth, Tais, Millenia, Akili, Miriam

Friday, March 17th: 
PAM Meeting

March 6, 2017 - March 10, 2017 Weekly Agenda for Play Production

Monday, March 6th:

Watched A Streetcar Named Desire

Discussion: death versus life - Thanatos versus Eros

Life = sex, passion, art

Belle Reve means beautiful dream 

Belle Reve was shattered and destroyed by death

Blanche Dubois tried to escape death and find life through desire 

The streetcar which took Blanche  to Stella's apartment in the French Quarter in New Orleans  was called "Desire." 

Stanley giving Blanche a check for bus fare back to Auriol, Mississippi, was a death warrant - only death and humiliation awaited her there.

The doctor checking Blanche's eyes by lifting her eye lids was a hint that she might be subjected to a pre-frontal lobotomy, which was the same fate as Rose, Tennessee William's sister, suffered. Tennessee wrote The Glass Menagerie, which was about his unhappy life with his mother and his fragile sister, Rose, whose character's name was Laura.

Tuesday, March 7th: 
Shortened day
Read Desire, Desire, Desire, Christopher Durang's parody of A Streetcar Named Desire

Wednesday, March 8th: 
Finished reading  Desire, Desire, Desire
Discussion  
Began watching The Glass Menagerie 
 
Thursday, March 9th: 

Watch The Glass  Menagerie; stopped at 1:38

 Friday, March 10th: 
Watch The Glass Menagerie
Discussion of the play