The week of September 8th to September 11th was spent blocking and testing on pages 10 to the middle of 15 in our play A Thousand Cranes. This past week of September 14th to September 18th was spent blocking and testing pages 15 to 19. Both of those weeks, the class focused on physicality, vocal development, and basically all other theatre requirements. Line memorization has been our biggest hardship. Inadequate line memorization leads to bad pacing with lines, which leads to awkward scenes because of confused physicality and so on. This is what we are trying to avoid.
Assistant Teaching:
Both last week of Sept. 8th-Sept. 11th and this week of Sept. 14th-Sept. 18th was working with the beginning students and their miming skills. The entirety of last week, Ms. Jones and I taught them front/side/ceiling wall mines. They incorporated those miming skills into a scene with no dialogue. Obviously they were not tested on voice but mostly physicality and ensemble. This week, we have incorporated combat mime into their scenes. The kids have had a bit of trouble with this. They can often end up punching/kicking in the profile position. This is where we introduced cheating-out. Their required combat mime actions were: punching in the face/stomach, and kneeing. Although they do enjoy combat mime is it difficult for them to fully grasp without doing it incorrectly. Lastly, even thought very little, we have tried to include pantomime in the scenes. Most silent scenes already had some type of pantomime included.
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