Questions

Week 1

What is children’s theatre?

Children’s theatre is plays that have been adapted or specifically written for children or young people.

What skills does an excellent children’s theatre performer need to possess?

A children’s theatre performer needs many abilities, such as having a high tolerance to noise and disturbances from the audience. They also need the ability to be able to adapt themselves to be more appealing and fun to a younger audience.

How would you adapt an issue for delivery to a specific audience?

To adapt an issue to a specific audience you need to have done research into the way others have done so and alter it into your own performance giving you knowledge of the topic. You also need to have the right attitude to the topic as if you have a similar attitude toward it as you want to portray this makes it much easier.

Week 2

What tasks did you do in lesson today towards creating TTWCTT?

The lesson began by us learning who was to play which part Tahlia as Sophie, Hector as Dad and myself as Mum. From this the class paired up and began balling ideas as to who could be at the door when the tiger knocks. From this we decided which would be best in the play and began developing them for a children’s theatre performance by using character development techniques (both main characters and ensemble).

How do you think this will contribute to TTWCTT?

I feel this will contribute to the performance as it will give us an opportunity to perfect these characters to become something that children will enjoy watching.

 

Week 3

Are the ideas affective? Are they theatrical and, if not, can they be made theatrical? Will they appeal to ‘Little People’? Why / why not?

In this lesson we finalised our ideas and shared them with each other and I think that they are very affective and appealing to ‘Little People’ as they are all things that they will understand and find enjoyable. They also where theatrical and a lot of fun to watch because they drew the audience in using jokes that all ages would understand.

Week 4

Do you think the material you have created this week will be suitable for ‘Little People’? Why is it / why is it not suitable?

I did not attend this lesson due to being in Germany so was not there to contribute toward the making of these pieces.

Week 5 (Dress Rehearsal)

Was the dress rehearsal performed confidently and effectively? Did it communicate the intentions in a controlled and engaging manner?

The dress rehearsal showed us exactly what needed working on and personally I believe it wasn’t performed to the full confidence we should have but it was very effective in the way it was performed. I also believe that it did communicate the intentions very well as everyone watching showed to be engaged within the performance and we filled the space well.

 

 

Evaluation of 'Dress Rehearsal' in New Theatre

Doing a rehearsal in the New Theatre with Dance, Music, Musical Theatre and Theatre showed us how the play will run with eachother and gave us an idea of running time of the performance.

Our Performance:

Our performance went well, although I do believe we need to improve in some places. Our main problem was our songs. Although we dont actually sing that much it didn't go very well. We were all singin gin different tunes and were not in time, although we have worked on it a little, we need to fix that problem before performance. Another problem was the lack of concentration between us all, including myself. During people's individual performance, we were laughing or talking, this meant the entire peice suffered. We all need to stop this and concentrate more during rehearsals not just for performing. We also need to have a little more practise with lines and stage directions as throughout people mad emistakes about where they needed to be or what they needed to be doing. These are the main points that need working on befire our final performance.

A lot of things went well, we were shown how we would be entering the stage after the first Theatre performance, this beginning to our peice works really well and would be an understandable beggining to our peice for the 'Little People'. Other strands have also got peices that meet the criteria of 'A performance for children between the ages of 2-5' for example Musical Theatre's clean the kitchen peice wass very inventive and funny to both audiences of the Little People and performers.

A personal thing did not go as well, my perfromance as the Mum I belived to be a little boring as other strands had given the mum a much better look. I am looking to improve both my vocal and physical look to make myself fit the part better. Other Strands also need to work on meeting the criteria, Dance, in my opinion, wasn't a dance for a young audience. It was a little sexualised but was still very good, just not for 2-5 year olds.


Overal the 'Dress Rehersal' went very well as it showed us exactly what my group need to work on to improve our peice and make it the best experience we can.