The Servant of Two Masters - Green Beans Scene

Past Productions of Shows

2017 - 2018
Into the Woods - May
The Servant of Two Masters - December
How to Escape a Zombie Apocalypse - October
Senior Scenes - April
P.A.M. Awards - May

2016 - 2017
Hair Spray - May
Peter and the Starcatcher - December
"To Serve Man" and "The Monkey's Paw" - October
Christopher Durang's Shorts - April
Black History Month Assembly - February
P.A.M. Awards - June

2015 - 2016
Bring It On - May
Argonautica by Mary Zimmerman  - December
The Masque of the Red Death - October
Almost, Maine - April
Twelfth Night - May (Six performances, five at area parks as Saturday afternoon matinees with the Los Angeles Shakespeare Ensemble)
Black History Month Assembly
P.A.M. Awards - May

2014 - 2015
Spring Awakening - May
Arabian Nights by Mary Zimmerman - December
Senior Shorts - April
P.A.M. Awards - May

2013 - 2014
In the Heights - May
Dracula - December
Senior Shorts
P.A.M Awards - May

2012 - 2013
Auditorium renovated
All shows performed in 503 in fall 2012
Play It Again, Sam - December
Winterfest - dance and vocal production
Thoroughly Modern Millie - May

June 4, 2018 - Jun 8, 2018 Play Production

Monday, June 4th: 

Performances of Self-Written Monologues:
Brana: Abused woman confessing to the murder of her abusive boyfriend.

Kedase: Wrestler on the pro-wrestling circuit also moves drugs for a drug lord. Now the inventory has come up short and the drug lord is coming after him. He is confessing to a pastor about what he may have to do to the drug lord.

Grace: Eleven year old girl snooping in her parents' basement and finds a letter written to her by her biological mother addressed to her when she turns eighteen.

Alice: High achieving student at her graduation deflated and feeling hollow about her success. In her pursuit of high marks, she has lost who she is as a person and what her passion is.

May 29, 2018 - June 1, 2018 Weekly Agenda for Play Production

Tuesday, May 29th: 
These are the self-written monologues that have yet to be presented: 

1. Elizabeth: Nurse who is talking to her father about her difficulties of her job
Comments, discussion, and critiques

2. Brana: Orphaned seventeen-year old looking for love
Comments, discussion, critiques

3. Michelle: Confronting her father about his emotional abandonment of her and the real abandonment of her mother and the lies he told about her mother.
 Comments, discussion, critiques

4. Amy: African-American nurse abused by her parents
Comments, discussion, critiques

5. Yubendi - old, blind, homeless woman talking to street photographer
Comments, discussion, critiques

6. Madeline - Runaway whose middle-class parents are alcoholic and addicted to prescription drugs.  Her nineteen year old brother is leaving as well but is essentially abandoning her to the streets.
Comments, discussion, critiques

7. Angel - Psychotic man talking to imaginary people about his "wife and daughter".  Feels guilt over the death of his wife. He and his wife never had a daughter.
Helpers: Alice and Jackie
Comments, discussion, critiques

8. Kedase - Pro-wrestler who is also moving drugs for a druglord whose inventory is suspiciously running low.  The wrestler is confessing to a priest what he is about to do - which is to kill the druglord before the druglord  kills him.
Comments, discussion, critiques

9. Tyler - Steven La Croix, 39, seven-time Grammy Award winner, has serious medical issues.
Comments, discussion, critiques

10. Alice - College graduate in a wheelchair; scared about the future.
Comments, discussion, critiques

1:30 - visit from Tim Landfield from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts to discuss the summer program for high school students.

Presentation of Self-Written Monologue:
Jackie - young gay man who has been rejected by his mother who has chosen her lover over him.

Pass out scenes for Play Production final

Wednesday, May 30th: 
Scenes for Play Production Finals: 

Agnes of God – Elizabeth and Jasmine

            Beyond Your Command – Jackie and Yaslynn
            Big Time – Jackie and Yaslynn
            Butterflies are Free – Francisco and Grace
            Devil Boys! – Angel, Brana, Alice, and Pedro
            Emily – Ivonne and Michelle
            Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune – Angel and Grace

Good Will Hunting – Daylan

The Gingerbread Lady – Jessica and Sofia

A Girl’s Guide to Chaos – Amy and Emily

Good Will Hunting – Daylan and Joan

Millenium Approaches – Carter and Chandler

‘Night, Mother – Alice and Katherine

Perestroika – Carter and Chandler

Swingers – Vlad and Yubendi

True West – Kedase and Tyler

The Woolgatherer – Madaline and Ty

Presentations of Self-Written Monologues:

Chandler – visiting the first restaurant his father had built years ago when Chandler was a child.

Discussions and Critiques

Ivonne – a psychopathic/narcissistic surgeon, bored with perfection, confesses to his therapist that he killed a patient for kicks during surgery.
Discussions and Critiques 

Michelle – at her mother’s death bed expressing her sorrow over her father’s treatment of them.
Discussions and Critiques

Thursday, May 31st: 

Presentations of Self-Written Monologues:

Jasmine: young pregnant teen telling her mother that she makes her feel worthless and unloved because of her situation.

Discussion, critiques 

Katherine: Doctor speaking of a devastating experience of accidentally killing a little girl dying of leukemia.  Distracted by a brutal divorce, she unintentionally gives the wrong shot to a little girl, who suffers horribly before dying.

Discussion, critiques

Friday, June 1st: 

Presentation of self-written monologues: 

Jessica – Confessions of a Bank Robber

Discussion and Critiques 

Presentations of Senior Scenes:

 Agnes of God – Elizabeth and Jasmine

Discussion and Critiques 

Angels in America: The Millenium Approaches

Carter and Chandler

Angels in America: Perestroika

Carter and Chandler

Discussion and Critiques 

May 21, 2018 - May 25, 2018 Weekly Agenda

Tuesday, May 22nd:

 Presentations of Rough Drafts:
1. Elizabeth: Nurse who is talking to her father about her difficulties of her job
Comments, discussion, and critiques

2. Brana: Orphaned seventeen-year old looking for love
Comments, discussion, critiques

3. Michelle: Confronting her father about his emotional abandonment of her and the real abandonment of her mother and the lies he told about her mother.
 Comments, discussion, critiques

4. Amy: African-American nurse abused by her parents
Comments, discussion, critiques

5. Yubendi - old, blind, homeless woman talking to street photographer
Comments, discussion, critiques

6. Madaline - Runaway whose middle-class parents are alcoholic and addicted to prescription drugs.  Her nineteen year old brother is leaving as well but is essentially abandoning her to the streets.
Comments, discussion, critiques

7. Angel - Psychotic man talking to imaginary people about his "wife and daughter".  Feels guilt over the death of his wife. He and his wife never had a daughter.
Helpers: Alice and Jackie
Comments, discussion, critiques

8. Kedase - Pro-wrestler who is also moving drugs for a druglord whose inventory is suspiciously running low.  The wrestler is confessing to a priest what he is about to do - which is to kill the druglord before the druglord  kills him.
Comments, discussion, critiques

9. Tyler - Steven La Croix, 39, seven-time Grammy Award winner, has serious medical issues.
Comments, discussion, critiques

10. Alice - College graduate in a wheelchair; scared about the future.
Comments, discussion, critiques


Thursday, May 24th:
Periods 1, 3, and 5

Work on their monologues

Presentations of Self-Written Monologues:  

Carter:  Syrian-American teenager speaking passionately in a support group

Vlad: Danesh, a 40 year-old hospital orderly from Bangladesh who hates  his

boss Patricia

Francisco: John Polaris, 69 year-old special-ed teacher talking about his student.

            Jessica: Bank robber turning himself into the police

Katherine – Latina fashionista working in the fashion industry whose work has been sabotaged and vandalized by jealous whites

New Scenes:

Geography of a Horse Dreamer – Daylan

The Gingerbread Lady – Jessica and Sofia

Good Will Hunting –

Swingers – Vlad and Yubendi

True West – Kedase and Tyler

Beyond Your Command - f/m
Big Time - f/m
 Devil Boys - four roles: 2 males, 2 females
'Night, Mother - 2 females

The Woolgatherer – Grace

Friday, May 25th:
Regular schedule
Guest Teacher: John Tourtellotte led the class into an acting analysis of the prologue of Shakespeare's Henry V. 

May 14, 2018 - May 18, 2018 Agenda for Play Production Class

Monday, May 14th:
Present your Arts Integration on Into the Woods
Group #1
Jack's Mother and the Steward
Presenters:
Angel, Alice, Grace, Brana, Jackie
Act out important scene(s)
Discussion:
Tracing the characters' arc
Background, inciting incident, objectives, conflict,  resolution, theme

Group #2
Baker and the Baker's Wife
Presenters:
Jessica, Ty, Jasmine, Elizabeth, Michelle, Kedase
Act out important scene(s)
Discussion:
Tracing the characters' arc
Background, inciting incident, objectives, conflict, resolution, theme

Group #3
Baker and the Baker's Wife
Presenters:
Chandler, Yaslynn, Sophia, Ivonne, Katherine,
Chandler and Yaslynn - memorized scene and songs!
Act out important scene(s)
Discussion:
Tracing the characters' arc
Background, inciting incident, objectives, conflict, resolution, theme

Tuesday, May 15th:

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Pam Awards – Thursday, May 31^st at Hollywood High School

6:00 pm

Banquet

Performance Presentations

Awards!!!! 

Present your rough draft of your self-written monologues

Then present your final presentation of your self-written monologues

Present This is Our Youth, and No Exit during Thursday Theatre

Work on the final scenes for the class.

 Continue presenting your Arts Integration of Into the Woods
Yubendi, Emily, Joan, Daylan - not present
Yubendi and Joan read scenes between the two princes
Emily and Yubendi read Cinderella and Prince's final farewell scene
Analysis: background, objectives, conflict, resolution, theme

Carter, Maddie, Tyler, Vlad, Amy, Francisco
Carter - Cinderella: objective, conflict, resolution
Madaline - Baker's Wife: objective, conflict, resolution
Tyler - Baker: objective, conflict, resolution
Vlad - Jack: objective, resolution
Amy -

Wednesday, May 16th:


Present your rough draft of your monologue
Perform rough draft of self-written monologues
Jessica – “Bank Robbery is the American Dream”

Chandler – “David Lecray”
Kid painting a mural in memory of his father on the side of a restaurant established by him.

Daylan – based on the artist Basquiat
Rap about a streetkid

Grace - Third person account of a young
Refugee to America whose mother is a sex worker

Francisco – Special Ed teacher helping a young student whose mother is about to be deported

The following scenes will perform tomorrow for Thursday Theatre
No Exit
This is Our Youth

Thursday, May 17th:
Present your rough draft of your monologue
Sophia - Confession of a guy in love with his girlfriend's brother.
Jackie - Male teenage runaway who was rejected by his mom because her homophobic boyfriend objected to him.
Katherine - Latina fashionista
Ivonne - Brilliant, infallible doctor who has become bored with perfection.  Intentionally kills a patient during surgery.

Friday, May 18th:
Perform your final draft of  your monologue
Rehearsed various scenes from Into the Woods

Arts Integration of Into the Woods

2018 Arts Integration lesson Plan for Into the Woods 

Standards: 

Analyzing character arcs through character objectives, motivations, subtext, conflicts,  and how it relates to theme

Task: 

Students will analyze a strand following the arc of a character or a closely related group of characters to determine objectives, motivations, and conflicts of the character(s) and how this affects the overall theme of the play. 

Logistics: 

The class will break into five groups of five members

Several sides, which follow the arc of different characters from the musical Into the Woods, will be given to each group. 

Each group will receive a different character or small group of characters to follow. 

The different characters are: 

Baker and the Baker’s Wife - two groups will receive sides tracing the arcs of these two characters

Cinderella and Cinderella’s Prince -  two groups will receive sides tracing the arcs of these two characters

The Witch and Rapunzel - two groups will receive sides tracing the arc of these two characters; 

Each group will read through the sides, tracing the arc of each character

The members of the group will use graphic organizers to chart the important aspects of the characters:

the background

the inciting event

the objective 

conflict(s)  

resolution 

conflict(s)

resolution 

conflict 

Major resolution 

The students will read and act out scenes from the scripts to the class

The students will discuss the following: 

the background

the inciting event

the objective(s)

the conflict(s)  

the primary motivating forces in the characters’ lives

the characters’ subtext 

the lesson learned 

How do the various character arcs relate to the theme of Into the Woods? 

Graphic Organizer for 2018 Arts Integration Lesson Plan for Into the Woods

Standards: 

Analyzing character arcs through character objectives, motivations, subtext, conflicts,  and how it relates to theme

Task: 

Students will analyze a strand following the arc of a character or a closely related group of characters to determine objectives, motivations, and conflicts of the character(s) and how this affects the overall theme of the play. 

Character Name	Background	Inciting Event	Objective	Conflict	Resolution	Lesson Learned	Over arching Theme

May 7, 2018 - May 11, 2018

Monday, May 7th:
Discussion of Arts Integration Lesson Plan 

Continue working on the rough draft of your monologue

Tuesday, May 8th: 

Break into five groups of groups

You will be given scripts of Into the Woods which follow the arc of the following characters:

Baker and the Baker’s Wife

Cinderella and Cinderella’s Prince and Rapunzel’s Prince

The Witch and Rapunzel

You are going to read through the scripts

You are going to read and act out scenes from the scripts to the class

You will discuss the characters’ objectives

You will discuss the obstacles – the conflicts - the characters encounter

You will discuss the primary motivating forces in the characters’ lives

You will discuss the characters’ subtext

You will discuss the motivating factors which influence the behavior of the characters

The lesson learned by the characters

Write the names of the people in your group:

The Baker and the Baker’s Wife

1^st Group: Sofia, Chandler, Yaslynn, Ivonne, Katherine

Cinderella

2^nd Group: Yubendi, Emily, Joan, Daylan

The Baker and the Baker’s Wife

3^rd Group: Jessica, Jasmine, Kedase, Elizabeth, Ty, Michelle

Cinderella

4^th Group: Carter, Maddie, Tyler, Vlad, Amy, Francisco

Rapunzel and the Witch

5^th Group: Alice, Jackie, Angel, Pedro, Brana

Wednesday, May 9th: 

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Students broke into groups of five to work on the Arts Integration lesson plan.

Students read the sides, which tracked the characters’ arc. The students tracked and discussed the characters’ arcs and then answered the following questions about the characters: background, inciting event, objective, conflict, resolution, what was learned, and how it relates to the theme.

The students then decide which scenes to act out for the class.  To be continued on Friday.

May 7, 2018 - May 20, 2018 Rehearsal and Performance Schedule for Into the Woods

May - Sunday	May - Monday	May - Tuesday	May - Wednesday	May - Thursday	May - Friday	May - Saturday
		1	2	3	4	5
6	7 3:30 - 7:30  Orchestra  Dress/Tech Rehearsals	8  3:30 - 7:30  Dress/Tech Rehearsals	9 3:30 - 7:30   Dress/Tech Rehearsals	10  9:30 a.m. - 7:30 p.m.  Tech/Dress Rehearsal	11  1:15 - 4:00 Rehearsals  5:00 p.m. Call  7:00 Curtain  9:30 p.m. - put costumes/props away - dismissal	12 Understudy Rehearlals 12 - 4pm. 5:00 Call  7:00 Curtain  9:30 p.m. - put costumes/props away - dismissal
13  12:00 p.m. Call  2:00 p.m. Curtain  5:00 p.m. - put costumes/props away - dismissals	14 No rehearsals	15  No Rehearsals	16  Pick-up Rehearsals  3:30 - 7:00	17  Pick-up Rehearsals  3:30 - 7:00	18  1:15 - 4:00 Warm-ups/Rehearsals as needed  5:00 p.m. Call  7:00 Curtain  9:30 p.m. - put costumes/props away - dismissal	19  5:00 p.m. Call 7:00 p.m. Curtain  9:30 p.m. - put costumes/props away - dismissal
20  12:00 p.m. Call  2:00 p.m. Curtain  4:30 p.m. - put costumes/props away - dismissal

Thursday, May 31st: Pam Awards 

6:00 - 8:00 

Auditorium 

April 30, 2018 - May 4, 2018 Weekly Schedule for Play Production

Monday, April 30th: 
Self-Reflection on Performances
If you did not perform on Thursday, then you must perform during Thursday Theatre to get performance credit; otherwise, you will receive an "F" for that assignment.
The self-reflection will be due on Tuesday, May 1st.
Your acting journal will be due on Tuesday, May 1st.

Theatre games

Continue working on your self-written monologue.
Present your backstory

Tuesday, May 1st: 
Shortened Day!

Reflection on your performance of Friday, April 27th

 

Self-reflection on your performance, April 27th:

Did you learn your lines? Why or why not? If you did not learn your lines, why didn't you? What kept you from learning your lines? What could be done to help you learn your lines? If you did learn your lines, what did you do that helped you learn your lines?

2.     Did you write down your blocking (movement) and business in your script? Each time you rehearsed, did you do the blocking and business given to you? Why or why not?

3.     How often did you rehearse? What kept you from rehearsing? What could you do to overcome not rehearsing?

4.     Did you like your script and your character? Why or why not?

5.     Did you believe in your environment as the character? Why or why not? What could you do to make it more believable for you?

6.     Did you believe in the situation that your character was in? Why or why not? If not, then what could you have done to make it more believable?

7.     Do you enjoy acting? If so, what makes acting fun for you? If not, what can be done to make it more enjoyable?

8.     What was the thing you most enjoyed about doing the scene?

9.     What did you think you did well in the scene?

10.   What was the least enjoyable aspect of doing the scene?

11.   What do you think you need to do to improve in acting? 

12. Is there anything you would like to add? 

Wednesday, May 2nd: 
Begin presenting your rough draft
Work on your self-reflections 

Thursday, May 3rd: 
Theatre Exercise:
The Entrance Exercise
Continue presenting your rough draft

Friday, May 4th: 
Guest speaker