1ST ONE

"You are going to die" - was what a form 6 student once told me about doing IB theatre, but I didn't mind and now I am doing it. The first lesson was kind of stressing as Roberto told us all the different plays that we will have to go and see, and even though he didn't mention about the reflections, it is obvious that we will have to do them after every single play, so lots of them for now on!, which even though it may be boring it will be helpful as we will improve a lot our reflection skills. 

Another important task for the IB theatre is the ppp which they kind of explain us, but already we have a task and we have to do a little ppp proyect for next week!, first of all, this is made in power point, in the first slide of-course goes your name, the title and a subtitle (if there is one). Then comes the index to organize your ideas and to let the audience know what you are going to talk about. After this comes what was in your index (these slides are just images but no words in them), then we need to include a mental map which is like a summary with the main key points and finally the sources that we have used. We learn this last year but in our second class Roberto reminded us, and give us more work!

The teacher even showed us a ppp of "Comedia dell' Arte", in here apart from giving an example of how to do our homework he remind us more about this type of theatre which we learnt about last year. We look about the importance of the movements and body characterization, we looked at the masks and how this will force the actors to express more with their body than the face, and the importance of the use of the hands. Also it remind us, that they improvised almost everything and they acted in the streets in cars like the "paegon wagon" from Medieval theatre. We also learned that the voice needed to be loud but it was not that difficult as they used "half mask", this did not cover their mouth so there was no need to shout.

Also as the school play is going to be based on masks and puppets, we saw a presentation of different kind of puppets, from simple and small ones to huge and complex ones. We define what "a vision" is, we said a vision is a projection or image of how do you want the play to look like without having a story or a concept yet. Also we shared ideas and we will be making big puppets and small ones, also we may teach the other pupils how to use stilts, to make the play more interesting.

In the last class of the week we found the “game” for our play, it consists of, that each scene has the point of view of a character and that character is not on stage, but represented by the audience so the fourth wall is broken and the characters address the audience whenever they talk to that particular character. With this we will make the play and we will use this as our first game in a school play. Isn't it challenging, would it finally work, or it will be a disaster?