Musical theatre research

Ascot Gavotte Ascot Gavotte is a musical number that appears in the musical ‘My Fair lady’, the story line involves a snobbish phonetics professor called Harry Higgins taking it upon himself to transform a lower class cockney Flower girl into a cultured member of high society. The flower girl ‘Eliza doolittle’ agreed on taking speech

05/03/2020

antigone rehearsals This afternoon we worked on a group movement piece which shows Antigones death, this movement scene was heavily inspired by Frantic assembly, a physical theatre company. The piece Lauren showed us was called “10 companies” and it involves lots of lifts, people running off and on at different times, people jumping over each

Musical Theatre

Ascott gavotte: My first response to ascott gavotte was that it is very classical. The choreography was very stylised and sharp, the moves weren’t actually challenging but we had to act the whole time and create strong characters using facial expressions by turning our noses up to show we were high status and keeping our

Bob Fosse

Bob fosse was an american dancer and choreographer. He was born 23 June 1927 and died 23rd September 1987. Fosse is famous for choreographing musicals such as Chicago and Cabaret, These musicals were what made the Fosse style so famous and recognisable. The Fosse style consists of curved in shoulders, turned in knees, finger snaps,

antigone rehearsal – 25/02/2020

The technical team have decked out the wildman with lights and a prototype of the staging so for the first time we were able to block scenes using the raised stage. Today i was given a scene to perform with Shannon, who is part of the chorus. This scene comes after Creon and Haemons “sons

working with a different director

antigone-13/02/2020 today’s lesson we had Hilary Pezet, an acting tutor at college, come and watch and help develop all that we have done for antigone. It’s important to have different perspectives on the piece your performing, new feedback can develop your character massively. creons entrance scene: This is my first scene on stage and i

Tech brief

10/02/2020- today was our first meeting with the technical team, where we discussed things such as stage layout, props and health and safety. This is the first time during third project we have come together with the tech team so we learnt a lot from this session. Here is our tech team, we were introduced

Working in Thrust research

ANTIGONE Our production of Antigone will take o place in thrust meaningWe there will be audience on three sides of the stage. There are a lot of things we need to take into account due to this because you don’t want to keep your back to a certain side of the audience for to long.

Chorus workshop

06/02/2020 using chorus speech , walking to punctuation, shakespearean speech, iambic pentameter. The purpose of this being to understand the intention of the punctuation physically through the body allowing voice and rhythm to follow. We picked out part of the fates speech and delivered it around the room to each other, the purpose being to

Notes from first full run through 04/02/2020 chorus firsts scene (it’s very static, the lines need to be read more casually like in a conversation) first chorus scene needs to be more of a party, just back from war doe everyone happy, mood changes when creon walks in to more serious but still elements of