CHARLOTTE HOWES LOGBOOK FROM PERFORMANCE SKILLS CLASSICAL THEATRE Volpone Tuesday 16 th January – To begin with we all sat in a circle and discussed the plot of Volpone, this was useful as it allowed us all to fully understand the play before we began to tackle scenes within it. We also discussed the themes within the play which were things like greed, temptation etc. We vaguely talked about how each character resembled animals within the play and how this could be reflected within our final performances. We then partnered up (I was with Emma) and we were given a scene per pair to look at and perform to the class with the script, this was a short activity. After we had shown it to the class we were given the task to make the scene improvised, without scripts and to use contemporary language to help us understand what was properly going on within the scene. This was a lot of fun to perform and it was really interesting to see how other groups interpreted their scenes too. T...
At the beginning of the semester when I discovered we were going to have singing lessons I was extremely nervous and worried about what was going to happen as I have never properly participated within singing activities nor had I performed in front of an audience on my own before. To learn that the assessment would be based on a solo performance, my nerves and dread grew greater and greater. After my first lesson with Vic,, our teacher, I felt a lot more comfortable and confident with singing as a group and opening up my vocal chords. We took part in an activity where we placed socks under our armpits and sung whilst opening our vocals allowing vibrations to occur through our backs., We then partnered up and allowed our partner to hear the vibration from our vocals, I said the words ‘ahhh’ as my partner could feel the vibrations coming through on my back, we then swapped and I felt my partners vibrations through her back, if she was not quite opening her back enough I helped her adjust...
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