Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Warning to Procrastinators!!!
About those Independent Projects....Think about your main interest in theatre. Think about what you love to do. Think about what you've learned this year. Think about something you WANT to spend hours doing. Writing? Acting? Designing? Directing? Model Making? Costume Construction? Running a workshop? A combination of some of these? This is the most fun you will have in IB, if you make it that. Think about this...you are being given the opportunity to create your own path and follow it. If it is theatre focused and done independently, is qualifies. Let's get it on! If you wait until the last minute, you will undoubtedly end up with something that is slapped together and sub par that is dissappointing to you. I know what all of you are capable of doing! I believe in the creativity and industry of this group! This is 25% of your IB experience (meaning 25% of your IB creadit); as you know, the journal for this project is one of two internal assessments. Make it count!!! Bring on your questions...
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What are the possibilities for writing? WOuld it have to be modeled after a certain style, or could we write a completely original off-the-cuff play?
Writing a play seems like it would be really hard to journal in some ways but it could be cool to write about your writing eh?
Suppose I want to do acting though. Do I just pick some part in some play and write about trying to make that character? it would have made way more sense to do acting journals and what not with Seagull. Does Ragtime have sufficient character depth that I could use it???
Joe, completely off the cuff is fine. It is an independent project. As long as it is a piece of theatre, you're in good shape. It needs to reflect you're view of thetare, which hopefully has been influenced by your time in IB, and needs to be worth 25% of you IB credit. Take that as you will.
Writing about your writing process is a fascinating adventure. I've done it and found it to be incredibally illuminating. Now you see why I told you about this project before the Seagull!!! Ah, if only we could turn back time and take Cook's advice...
Aaron, you've heard the old adage "there are not small parts, only small actors?" That allpies to your question. Any role can be substantial enough to have "suffiecnt depth." Think about Stanislavski. Every character has a history, a psyche, a family, tragedy, fears and relationships. There is plenty to explore about even the most insignificant character. You, as the actor creating the role, are "creating" that life. Even if you are playing "third man" that thoird man has a name, a history, a reason for being on stage, a relationship to the others there, an opinion about what is happen based on his own experience, etc. Think about Stanislavski in front of the mirror and how that experience changed him. The character is more than the facade, not matter how small his actually stage time.
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