R&G in SATs

So today I took the SAT Subject Tests. One of them was the Literature test, and one of the passages was an excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. I immediately thought of Theatre because our school produced R&G this spring. I was really disappointed I didn't get to go, but I did see it last year at Gamut Theatre. I remember being really confused, but this year when we talked about absurdism and theatre of the absurd I realized why it was so confusing. I actually think my knowledge of these practices and the play itself helped me understand and analyze the passage better. Who knew theatre class was also SAT prep class?! :)

Rhinoceros Readthrough

Today we did our first read through of Act 1 of Rhinoceros. This way we could see how it would work out to have the parts changed. We also contributed ideas about blocking. In the read through, we tried to have more acting in our voices and get into character. I am Jean

Rhinoceros Final Production

Our final production of Rhinoceros took place on April 1, 2013 at around 8 in the morning. We had  one roduction first period and the other was second period. We had several audience members for the fiurst showand even more for the seoncd  one, and the seoncd went a lot smoother. On  the first one, we got ourb lines a little messed up, but we were able to recover. Then, second period we realized our mistakes, and second period went a lot better. Second period also had a  more interactive audience which helped because it made it seemlike theyunderstood our show better and kind of gaveussome more confidence. after each show, we did a talk-back with the audience. the first group didn't have toob many questions, although they did pick up on the color scheme with the red, as well as understanding a  little bit of the absurdism.

Catching Up...

So if you soon notice a flood of blog posts, that will due to my incredible intelligence in forgetting my password and keeping everything in my hard copy journal, until I found it. Then, the wondrousness of blogger did not inform me that my posts were all being save that only I could see them because I wasn't publishing them. Oops. Well, the "show" must go on ;)

Production Meeting 3/21

LAST PRODUCTION MEETING

• Monday is last day to call line
• Monday we are adding costumes and sound
• Wednesday-final rehearsal-add everything else
• Show is Monday April 1
• ask Frida about what to do with Katherine's hair

Sam on lighting:

• another meeting with Mr. McGuire early next week on the backlighting
• use black tablecloth material to cover the lights to make it darker
• hasn't gotten word from Mrs. Burke about aprons--going to use Mrs. Burke's

Gwen on set:

• red material for tablecloths
• has 6 or 7 black chairs

Production Meeting 3/13

We had a production meeting Wednesday on March 13.
Gwen is in charge of set design--she shared her progress

• no response from Mr. Landis about key to box in stairwell and Mr. Wonzer about chairs and tables from cafeteria
• emailed art teachers about seats-about 25 we can use
• working on canvas for corkboard-working on brownish color-so we can we put stuff on it
• she checked with Frida (costumes) and Aishwarya (props) about colors to use on corkboard

Catherine is in charge of sound

• played her songs that she plans to use for the show
• orchestral piece for when rhinoceros comes through-from live action production of Peter Pan in 2003
• "He's a Tramp" from Lady and the Tramp for the end of the scene leading us out into the curtain call
• "Kiss the Girl" for when Daisy enters--THIS IS MY FAVORITE I LOVE IT SOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• "A Little Town" from the beginning of Beauty and the Beast for the beginning of the play when Jean and Berenger are sitting in the cafe.
• ask Elaine to record the voice of Daisy

I am in charge of PR

• I brought a rough draft of the program
• Must email teachers/administration to save the date for the production
• Everyone else is emailing me head shots&short bio for the program
• work on ticket for the next production meeting-3/21

Frida is in charge of costumes

• I showed everyone my red dress and red high heels
• Aishwarya will bring in a scarf that could go with my dress
• I'm going to practice wearing my heels to see if it's possible
• Katherine has a wrinkled, pinstriped shirt and the pinstripes are red which goes with our theme
• I need to take a picture of my dad's bowler hat
• Look for broom skirts for Sam
• Sam needs to ask about an apron and bring in his cardigan
• Bring in maid cap

Sam-lighting

• meeting with Mr. McGuire tomorrow
• wants black construction paper over the lights to make the scene darker
• yellow paper over window
  · keep stairwells darker so the audience is more focused on the stages
  · stages more lit up so they're the focus of the production
  · hopefully some lighting instruments in the stairwell
  Aishwarya-Props
  · Take pictures of my stuffed animals to see any of them would work for the cat
  · Check about trays
  · Necklace chains in the glasses for the spillage
  · Bring in gold/silver chains
  · Towel hooked into Frida's apron for when she cleans up the glasses-check for red towel
  · Giant paper bags
  · Brandy bottle
  · Aishwarya and Katherine need to bring in stuffed rhinos
   

Just Everything

So we get really off topic in theatre class, so today we were talking about the emotions from movie. Aishwarya told us about this Ernest Hemingway quote: "For sale. Baby Shoes. Never worn."