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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g3-21BWhxM

trying to get my prime minister voice to work! looking at margaret thatcher speeches...her voice is horrible

CK

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This footage showing Senator McCarthy speaking at one of his hearings will be a useful tool for me in making my performance of him believable. Notice his slow, monotonous speech, and how he puts aggressive emphasis on the word Communist.

TT

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The idea I have used for the future-set scene is one based on the idea of a future world where a supercomputer has complete control of the world, managing the day to day organisation of the world, and allowing people to live in the roles it has assigned. The idea was originally put forward by Ryan, with the idea of a mysterious 'Source' controlling everything for its own ends as part of 'The Plan'. With a mind for my character Derek, and an interesting concept around modern worries of computer power I thought a computerized controller could seem very interesting. Derek suffers from 'Penduncular hillucinosis,' which occurs after a head injury, and can lead to vivid but strange hillucinations, which the patient can often be at least partly aware of being false.

I also considered how this confused state would cause others to have to make decision for you, which would also be an everyday thing in the asylum. These added to this idea of an all controlling computer, and everything being regimented and controlled, as it highlights Derek's frustrations at being there. 

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Little Shop of Horrors opening to give students a flavour of the musical! Students will be working hard from next week for our July production. Next audition workshop will be Thursday lunchtime. Watch this space for further rehearsal & workshop updates.

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Little Shop of Horrors opening to give students a flavour of the musical! Students will be working hard from next week for our July production. Next audition workshop will be Thursday lunchtime. Watch this space for further rehearsal & workshop updates.

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Debate on capital punishment on question time. Shows there is much support in Britain. Interesting to hear that liquid in the lethal injection exported from Britain.

CK

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Theatre of The Oppressed

I was searching for practitioners to explore to help along and inspire our piece, and came across Augusto Boal's Theatre of The Oppressed. It is a movement that has grown around the world but is rooted in South America, and is Theatre with a very politically charged motive - something called 'Legislative Theatre' sprung from this, turning 'the desire of the population into law'. 

This kind of thing is in many ways different from our piece so far, as it is actively trying to change things. I think the work of Augusto Boal is interesting however for us to look at as we are dealing with a political subject that we would like the audience to think about.

C.K.

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Don't forget to keep posting!

Remember to reflect on the piece as you continue to develop your ideas. What is working? What needs adapting and why? How are you exploring form, style and structure? How are you exploring characterisation?

Keep up the good work!

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Artuad's physicality in his pieces was inspired by Balinese dance , and after watching this video I can see why, this is because each dancer moves in sync and takes great care in all movement and gesture’s made. In relation to my piece I believe this would be great to use for our abstract scenes and chorus scenes. BY A.S

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The brain is wider than the sky.

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)  by A.S

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Zimbardo wanted to show that the German soldiers who worked at the concentration camps in world war 2, weren’t as cruel and heartless as people potrayed them to . This is because he believed that people behaviour changed once they were allocated a role.  To show this he conducted the famous Stanford prison experiment  and found that

‘’In summary the study showed that the behaviour of the ‘normal’ students who had been randomly allocated to each condition, was affected by the role they had been assigned, to the extent that they seemed to believe in their allocated positions’’.

The video above is summary of how the experiment took place and what happened during the process. BY A.S

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this video illustrates the influence that people can have on indviduals behaviour. BY A.S

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Over this holiday I have been writing a movement piece and dialogue scene which will be used as a build up to the Victorian set scene which we practiced a while ago. In this scene the patient, played by Adiola is spoken to by a pharmacist, Dr Ervin, played by myself. Through this is it revealed that she is a suffering from schizophrenia, which has been worsened by her drug abuse. Schizophrenia can also cause an effect known as 'deralization,' where the patient feels as if the real world has lost its realism and power, often being liked to seeming like a play or movie (a perfect opportunity for some Brechtian techniques).  These together have caused her to fall into her own world, where she is happily living in her own imagination, almost convinced that it is real.

The movement piece will be to calm, nice sounding music, such as the once i have linked. This shows the harmony of her mind when she is in her own imagination, as well as creating a classical tone building up to her imagining the Victorian setting in the following scene. The patient herself will be sitting still at first, with Ryan and India moving to the music behind, acting out parts of her life, with Adiola later moving to, showing her moving into her mind. 

The Entry of the Chemist will end this, with Ryan and India at the back, intejecting into conversation as her audible hallucinations. I want this scene to seem strange, unreal, to mirror the derealization the patient is feeling. For this though the patient and chemist are sitting next to each other, they are both looking at the audience, and the constant shouting from her mind make the reality of the chemist seem strange, and unreal, yet the imagined Victorian scene that will follow will seem very strong and believable.  

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Love is a learned behaviour. A person can't show what they don't know!

Tony Gaskin By A.S

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For my group I am writing a scene set in the First World War, or the hallucinations of a character, imagining themselves in the war. However the follow up, where it is revealed that it is not real will be written by Adiola. This scene will follow directly from our opening scene, taking the audience straight into the minds of the characters. As a group we decided for this to be a tech-heavy scene, with loud sound effects, and lighting changes to engross the audience in the scene. It will also therefore present a stark contrast to the Brecht styled opening scene, where we want the audience to be quite disconnected, in this scene we want to engross them. This mirrors the difference between the minds of the patients, and the reality they see, with the imagined worlds being vivid and strong, and the real world feeling false and weak.

To help get a sense of the pace, and acting style we should take on I have been looking at film scenes such as this one from War Horse. Other examples include Birdsong and Saving Private Ryan.

TT

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Once there was a poor little boy who had no father or mother. Everything was dead and there was nobody left in the whole wide world. He went and searched night and day, but everything was dead. And, because there was nobody left on earth, and the moon had always looked down on him so kindly, he thought he’d go up to heaven. But when he reached the moon he found it was a piece of rotten wood. And then we went to the sun, and when he reached the sun he found it was a withered sunflower. And when he came to the stars they were little golden flies that a shrike had struck on a blackthorn. And when he wanted to go back to earth, the earth was an upturned pot. And he was all alone. And he sat down and cried, and he’s sitting there still, all alone.

Gypsy Woman’s monologue from Woyzeck by Georg Buchner

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This is the trailer of a play i went to watch at the Pleasance theatre in Islingtom based around mental illness, which was one of my groups previous ideas. The idea was on Mental Institutions and this would have been useful as a look into the life of a mentally ill patient.

D Bobb