Lead Creative Schools Session 3

We had our third session with Gareth today as part of our Lead Creative Schools, A Midsummer Night's Dream project.

We had a focus on developing our character voice today, learning different ways of saying lines and the impact it has on our performance.

Here are some highlights of our session

Tongue twister warm-up


Busy Bees games:

Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania

Globe Theatre trip

We had a fantastic trip today to the Globe Theatre in London as part of our A Midsummer Night's Dream focus for our Lead Creative Schools project.

We left school at 7:30am and began our long bus journey. We arrived at 12:00 to have lunch and then met our guide and drama leader, Suzanne. She showed us around the Globe itself, talking to us about its history and usage. We also got to go on stage and say some lines from the play.
We then headed inside to have a fantastic drama workshop.
Finally we headed over to the Globe Experience, to look at the history of the theatre through exhibits, artifacts and demonstrations.

Theseus Talks..the show!

Over the past week we have been creating an idea of what the world of the fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream would look like if they had to go on a Jeremy Kyle style show. Obviously, the host would then have to be Duke Theseus.

We held drama role play activities as Titania, Oberon, Puck, Bottom and Theseus, imagining what they would say; how they would walk, speak and act. We then worked as a class to create a storyboard of the show. We moved onto breaking these down into mini chapters, with criterion for each, which we could work on a daily basis.

After improving each section, we finally composed final drafts.

Here are some of our efforts. (Click for larger images)

Eliza:

Ellie-May:

Melissa

Iestyn

Farrah

Lucie

 Seren

Dylan A

Aaron:

Chloe:

Daisy:

Dylan C

Denrard:

Ellie D

Iwan

Jake

Jay

Joshua

Menna

Maisie

 Phoebe

Ruby

Regan

Leo

Corum

Laetitia

 Levi

Cain

 Heather

Ciaran