This is the first post from my new school, Banting Memorial High School. The drama students here are amazing! So that's why I am really enjoying my new teaching job.
For my former Improv Team at Park Street: please take time to meet with Leanna Neal. She has the current schedule of competitions coming up in the Regional Zone of the GTA: GhostZone.
Best of luck with your team work and competition. I know you will do really well.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Friday, December 10, 2010
Post #20 Friday December 10, 2010
FYI:
1.) Auditions Auditions Auditions...
Try out with your singing voice for a part in Mariposa Arts Theatre's spring staging of
"Guys and Dolls"
Auditions are Friday Dec. 17 6 p.m. -- 9 p.m. and
Saturday Dec. 18 9 a.m. -- 4 p.m..
for more information, Call John Caryl at (705) 327-9759
Our latest performances have been great!! Congratulations to all grade 9 ADA 1O students who performed "Doing Something" in a Readers' Theatre format.
1.) Auditions Auditions Auditions...
Try out with your singing voice for a part in Mariposa Arts Theatre's spring staging of
"Guys and Dolls"
Auditions are Friday Dec. 17 6 p.m. -- 9 p.m. and
Saturday Dec. 18 9 a.m. -- 4 p.m..
for more information, Call John Caryl at (705) 327-9759
Our latest performances have been great!! Congratulations to all grade 9 ADA 1O students who performed "Doing Something" in a Readers' Theatre format.
Friday, December 3, 2010
Post #19 Dec. 03, 2010
This past week was awesome, with great work done by everyone in class.
I think you might like this youtube video... Random acts of drama...
And if you need a laugh, visit Improv Everywhere (practising random acts of drama...) on Youtube. I recommend Frozen in Grand Central Station (when a tableau becomes a powerful piece of street theatre) and The Food Court Musical (March 09, 2008 — From 16 agents create a spontaneous musical in a food court in a Los Angeles mall. Using wireless microphones and the mall's PA system, both their voices and the music was amplified throughout the food court. All cameras were hidden behind two-way mirrors and other concealed structures. This is one of over 70 different missions Improv Everywhere has executed over the past six years in New York City. Others include Frozen Grand Central, the Best Buy uniform prank, and the famous U2 Rooftop Hoax, to name a few. Visit the website to see tons of photos and video of all of our work, including behind the scenes information on how this video was made. Song by Scott Brown and Anthony King. Arranged by Jamie Laboz)
These are some improv ideas from Beth Foster, Improv coach at Bear Creek S.S.
Home Room Reminders:
Next week we collect the following items for CHristmas
ADA 3M
Everyone is working hard to prepare stage performances of "Pygmalion". Due Date: Dec. 13, 14, 15, and 16. You may have more than your classroom peers as an audience, if Mr. Johnston and Ms. McKelvey bring along their grade 9 students.
MONDAY Dec. 06 .
per. 4 we will watch part of "My Fair Lady" to get ideas for British accents.
TUESDAY Beth's group will build puppets Carlie's group will block their Act on stage
WEDNESDAY Dylan's group will block their scenes on stage
THURSDAY Beth's group will practice using the special 'stage'
will all be used for scene polishing.
FRIDAY we will work on Transitions, Introducations and Conclusions.
ADA 2O
MONDAY Dec. 06
People are finishing their sit - com scripts this weekend, to be submitted Monday.
TUESDAY Gord's group will use the stage for blocking
WEDNESDAY Miranda's group will block on the stage
THURSDAY Ethan, Skyler and Evan will block their sit-com
FRIDAY all groups who want Madison to do lighting should meet with her and provide an extra copy of their scripts for her instructions.
ADA 1O
Monday Dec. 06
Colton's group will present their version of "Doing Something" with Reader's Theatre
Class will begin work on "Pyramus and Thisbe" Warm Up Activity #6, p. 14-17 in Voices in the Spotlight Bell, Perlman, and Stollmeyer
Tuesday Dec. 07
Journal Writing: Recalling a "First Time Event" in your life, or the life of someone you know really well.
Work on Basic Acting Terminology and the Acting Terminology Crossword
Wednesday Dec. 08
begin work on Exercise 6, p. 98 - 113
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
11 people or more / group
Thursday Dec. 09
review Acting terminology: quiz tomorrow!
Friday Dec. 10
Acting Terminology Quiz!
this time will be dedicated to group work with the script A Midsummer Night's Dream .
I think you might like this youtube video... Random acts of drama...
And if you need a laugh, visit Improv Everywhere (practising random acts of drama...) on Youtube. I recommend Frozen in Grand Central Station (when a tableau becomes a powerful piece of street theatre) and The Food Court Musical (March 09, 2008 — From 16 agents create a spontaneous musical in a food court in a Los Angeles mall. Using wireless microphones and the mall's PA system, both their voices and the music was amplified throughout the food court. All cameras were hidden behind two-way mirrors and other concealed structures. This is one of over 70 different missions Improv Everywhere has executed over the past six years in New York City. Others include Frozen Grand Central, the Best Buy uniform prank, and the famous U2 Rooftop Hoax, to name a few. Visit the website to see tons of photos and video of all of our work, including behind the scenes information on how this video was made. Song by Scott Brown and Anthony King. Arranged by Jamie Laboz)
These are some improv ideas from Beth Foster, Improv coach at Bear Creek S.S.
Home Room Reminders:
Next week we collect the following items for CHristmas
- non perishable food
- mittens for the mitten tree
- $1 / person to help with WorldVision
ADA 3M
Everyone is working hard to prepare stage performances of "Pygmalion". Due Date: Dec. 13, 14, 15, and 16. You may have more than your classroom peers as an audience, if Mr. Johnston and Ms. McKelvey bring along their grade 9 students.
MONDAY Dec. 06 .
per. 4 we will watch part of "My Fair Lady" to get ideas for British accents.
TUESDAY Beth's group will build puppets Carlie's group will block their Act on stage
WEDNESDAY Dylan's group will block their scenes on stage
THURSDAY Beth's group will practice using the special 'stage'
will all be used for scene polishing.
FRIDAY we will work on Transitions, Introducations and Conclusions.
ADA 2O
MONDAY Dec. 06
People are finishing their sit - com scripts this weekend, to be submitted Monday.
TUESDAY Gord's group will use the stage for blocking
WEDNESDAY Miranda's group will block on the stage
THURSDAY Ethan, Skyler and Evan will block their sit-com
FRIDAY all groups who want Madison to do lighting should meet with her and provide an extra copy of their scripts for her instructions.
ADA 1O
Monday Dec. 06
Colton's group will present their version of "Doing Something" with Reader's Theatre
Class will begin work on "Pyramus and Thisbe" Warm Up Activity #6, p. 14-17 in Voices in the Spotlight Bell, Perlman, and Stollmeyer
Tuesday Dec. 07
Journal Writing: Recalling a "First Time Event" in your life, or the life of someone you know really well.
Work on Basic Acting Terminology and the Acting Terminology Crossword
Wednesday Dec. 08
begin work on Exercise 6, p. 98 - 113
Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
11 people or more / group
Thursday Dec. 09
review Acting terminology: quiz tomorrow!
Friday Dec. 10
Acting Terminology Quiz!
this time will be dedicated to group work with the script A Midsummer Night's Dream .
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Post #18 Nov. 24, 2010
One more day until our field trip to see Metaphysical Theatre perform commedia dell'arte on the stage at ODCVI! I'm really looking forward to it.
ADA 1O
Mini-Research assignment on Theatre History.
Everyone worked with their partners / groups to research their topics. Friday will also be a research day, but we will work in room 114. A few people will work upstairs in room 214 with Mr. Hill. A big thank you to Holly for her help:). Also, thanks to Ayla for showing Mikaela, Ali and August how to use Prezi.
You will finalize your presentations on Monday, and do the actual presentations on Tuesday in the library, using the SmartBoard. I know they will be great!
ADA 2O
Comedy Sit-Com Assignment.
Today people finalized their character descriptions and got into groups for writing. Tomorrow and Friday, people will brainstorm their plots and subplots, putting ideas into Storyboard format, which are due at the end of class on Friday.
Next week, script writing will happen, with groups working together to include:
* at least two different types of comedy
* a plot and at least one subplot
* some jokes to spice up the dialogue
* perhaps a moral or important social idea that is taught through your performance.
ADA 3M
Pygmalian
Yesterday's reading was amazing - Act II and III- with several readers using fairly believeable British accents:
Dylan as "Higgins"
Carlie as "Mrs. Higgins" P. Higgins' mother
Courtney as "Mrs. Eynsford Hill" / Clara and Freddie's mother
Brian as "Doolittle"
Holly as "Eliza Doolittle" daughter of Doolittle
Beth as "Mrs. Pearce"
Emma as "Miss Eynsford Hill " / "Clara" - Freddie's sister
Nick as "Colonel Pickering"
Oliver as "Nepommuck" or " the other professor of phonetics
We will continue with the first reading of Pygmalian today, and try to finish it by Friday. Then we will decide if we want to stage this play, and how we will do it.
ADA 1O
Mini-Research assignment on Theatre History.
Everyone worked with their partners / groups to research their topics. Friday will also be a research day, but we will work in room 114. A few people will work upstairs in room 214 with Mr. Hill. A big thank you to Holly for her help:). Also, thanks to Ayla for showing Mikaela, Ali and August how to use Prezi.
You will finalize your presentations on Monday, and do the actual presentations on Tuesday in the library, using the SmartBoard. I know they will be great!
ADA 2O
Comedy Sit-Com Assignment.
Today people finalized their character descriptions and got into groups for writing. Tomorrow and Friday, people will brainstorm their plots and subplots, putting ideas into Storyboard format, which are due at the end of class on Friday.
Next week, script writing will happen, with groups working together to include:
* at least two different types of comedy
* a plot and at least one subplot
* some jokes to spice up the dialogue
* perhaps a moral or important social idea that is taught through your performance.
ADA 3M
Pygmalian
Yesterday's reading was amazing - Act II and III- with several readers using fairly believeable British accents:
Dylan as "Higgins"
Carlie as "Mrs. Higgins" P. Higgins' mother
Courtney as "Mrs. Eynsford Hill" / Clara and Freddie's mother
Brian as "Doolittle"
Holly as "Eliza Doolittle" daughter of Doolittle
Beth as "Mrs. Pearce"
Emma as "Miss Eynsford Hill " / "Clara" - Freddie's sister
Nick as "Colonel Pickering"
Oliver as "Nepommuck" or " the other professor of phonetics
We will continue with the first reading of Pygmalian today, and try to finish it by Friday. Then we will decide if we want to stage this play, and how we will do it.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Post #17 November 12, 2010
Improv Practice begins Next Week on Thursday at Lunch in room 135. Everyone is welcome.
ADA 1O:
Your final preparations for performing "The Real Inspector Hound" were great. I saw smooth transitions, and meaningful energy to help your audience follow this complex plot. Not to mention several fine accents and costumes!
We are all looking forward to Monday's presentations.
ADA 2O:
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S ! !
Fairy Tale Parodies are complete, and some people got their chance to play Park Bench too. My congratulations to:
the cast and crew of
Snow Blue ( not Snow White), who managed to pull together a fine performance, with just a touch of improv, of your entertaining and ambitious play. The audience loved it. Cameron gets special mention for his "crying" scene. Also, Sammi played a great mean sister / friend, Kristie was consistent in her performance of the grumpy - est mean woman we've seen in a long time. Brooke stole the show with her amazing costume, and thanks to Veronica for being the narrator. Thanks to Madison for her technical assistance.
the cast and crew of
"The Pied Piper of Hamlin", performed mostly with improv by Ben, Evan, Thomas and Isaac, with technical help and acting assistance from Brett, Gord, and John. The Michael Jackson impersonation by Ben was funny, but creepy at the same time. Special thanks to Skyler for the 'smoke' special effects.
the cast and crew of
"The Three Little Pigs", a parody of Jersey Shore and other things. Many congratulations on excellent accents from James, John and Holly. Gord gets special mention for his ridiculous impersonation of a guy looking for a 'sangwich', and special thanks go to Madison for her technical assistance. Veronica gets the last word for being a much needed entertaining narrator, who distracted the audience during scene changes.
the cast and crew of
"Cindersmella", a homeless version of one of our favourite fairy tales of all time. Congratulations to Skyler, Bobbie-Lee, Ethan and their crew for creating a believeable, although somewhat sad variation on the original, which took place in the abandoned WalMart and under various bridges. Not only were the costumes great, so was the dialogue. With an everpresent theme of "Don't Do Drugs", the story also told a modern moral.
These people get the prize for the best title.
and finally....
the cast and crew of
"Rapunzel", with a modern twist and modern characters: Tiger Woods! a.k.a. Brett; Angelina Jolie! a.k.a. Rachel; and Rapunzel! a.k.a. Miranda. Thanks to Madison for technical assistance. Your play really had smooth transitions; no stumbling with lines; and on top of that, it was just plain entertaining.
ADA 1O:
Your final preparations for performing "The Real Inspector Hound" were great. I saw smooth transitions, and meaningful energy to help your audience follow this complex plot. Not to mention several fine accents and costumes!
We are all looking forward to Monday's presentations.
ADA 2O:
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S ! !
Fairy Tale Parodies are complete, and some people got their chance to play Park Bench too. My congratulations to:
the cast and crew of
Snow Blue ( not Snow White), who managed to pull together a fine performance, with just a touch of improv, of your entertaining and ambitious play. The audience loved it. Cameron gets special mention for his "crying" scene. Also, Sammi played a great mean sister / friend, Kristie was consistent in her performance of the grumpy - est mean woman we've seen in a long time. Brooke stole the show with her amazing costume, and thanks to Veronica for being the narrator. Thanks to Madison for her technical assistance.
the cast and crew of
"The Pied Piper of Hamlin", performed mostly with improv by Ben, Evan, Thomas and Isaac, with technical help and acting assistance from Brett, Gord, and John. The Michael Jackson impersonation by Ben was funny, but creepy at the same time. Special thanks to Skyler for the 'smoke' special effects.
the cast and crew of
"The Three Little Pigs", a parody of Jersey Shore and other things. Many congratulations on excellent accents from James, John and Holly. Gord gets special mention for his ridiculous impersonation of a guy looking for a 'sangwich', and special thanks go to Madison for her technical assistance. Veronica gets the last word for being a much needed entertaining narrator, who distracted the audience during scene changes.
the cast and crew of
"Cindersmella", a homeless version of one of our favourite fairy tales of all time. Congratulations to Skyler, Bobbie-Lee, Ethan and their crew for creating a believeable, although somewhat sad variation on the original, which took place in the abandoned WalMart and under various bridges. Not only were the costumes great, so was the dialogue. With an everpresent theme of "Don't Do Drugs", the story also told a modern moral.
These people get the prize for the best title.
and finally....
the cast and crew of
"Rapunzel", with a modern twist and modern characters: Tiger Woods! a.k.a. Brett; Angelina Jolie! a.k.a. Rachel; and Rapunzel! a.k.a. Miranda. Thanks to Madison for technical assistance. Your play really had smooth transitions; no stumbling with lines; and on top of that, it was just plain entertaining.
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Post #16 October 30, 2010
ADA 1O
"The Real Inspector Hound"
for a closer look at some of the characters in this play, check out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IGu7xknjsI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxRKYF90BmM&feature=related
this video is a promo created for a recent performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-u4YJz1P_Q&feature=related
this final video has a slow beginning, but shows blocking of the stage for a final performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2zBVTycfvA
Sarah and Beth practicing stage combat.
Take a few minutes to watch these videos. They will give you ideas about how to put your script together.
Veronica, Liam, Brook and Rachel on the bus to Stratford last Wednesday.
Brooke, Robyn and Kait.
Jaci, Emily, Marina, Oliver, Brian, Dylan and MacKenzie.
Ali, Christie, Jannah, Sarah, and Kayley.
Rebecca, Nolan, Colton, Ayla and Alicia.
Lilli, Airi, Emma, Steph, Sarah and Beth.
Nevan, Sara, Ashley, Holly, Rebecca and Ayla.
Landon and Mrs. Warder.
Everybody in the Avon Theatre lobby waiting to meet Rich Lee and TJay for our stage combat workshop.
Robyn, Megan, Jessica, Brooke, Steph and Miranda practicing stage combat.
Kait, Sarah, Veronica, Beth, and Liam.
Our fight instructors Rich and TJay showAshley how to fake a punch.
Jannah, Ayla, Sarah, Colton, Jaci and TJay practicing 1 eye contact, 2. range, 3. target, and 4. intention.
Marina and Kait.
"The Real Inspector Hound"
for a closer look at some of the characters in this play, check out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IGu7xknjsI&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxRKYF90BmM&feature=related
this video is a promo created for a recent performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-u4YJz1P_Q&feature=related
this final video has a slow beginning, but shows blocking of the stage for a final performance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2zBVTycfvA
Take a few minutes to watch these videos. They will give you ideas about how to put your script together.
Brooke, Robyn and Kait.
Jaci, Emily, Marina, Oliver, Brian, Dylan and MacKenzie.
Ali, Christie, Jannah, Sarah, and Kayley.
Rebecca, Nolan, Colton, Ayla and Alicia.
Lilli, Airi, Emma, Steph, Sarah and Beth.
Nevan, Sara, Ashley, Holly, Rebecca and Ayla.
Landon and Mrs. Warder.
Our fight instructors Rich and TJay showAshley how to fake a punch.
Jannah, Ayla, Sarah, Colton, Jaci and TJay practicing 1 eye contact, 2. range, 3. target, and 4. intention.
Marina and Kait.
Friday, October 29, 2010
Post #15 October 29, 2010
Any drama students looking for a wonderful opportunity for a future career in the circus....
2) National Circus School: Canadian Pre-Selection Tour
From October 31 to November 13, the National Circus School embarks on a pre-selection tour of some 20 cities, a cross-Canada quest for talented young people between the ages of 9 and 17.
Today, we said good-bye to our Japanese students, Airi and Ayaki. Airi was able to attend the show, "Peter Pan" in Stratford with us on Wednesday :). Ayaki gave me a wonderful good-bye gift and card. I really appreciated having them both in class with us for the past 6 weeks. All the best of luck to both of them as they travel back home.
ADA 3M: rehearsals are going well for our Remembrance Day Assembly. People are getting along really well professionally. Monologues have been memorable. Jeff performed some final words of the leader of "The Doors" with great believability. Karlene's "Fight Club" monologue was so suitable for her personal character. Carlie and Courtney both performed heart-wrenching rants about boys; although they were quite different.
ADA 2O: rehearsals have begun for parody performances of "The Three Little Pigs", "The Pied Piper of Hamlin", and "Cinderella". I'm sure they will be wonderful. They will take place next Thursday, Nov. 4 and Friday, Nov. 5.
ADA 1O: the first work of getting into scripts for "The Real Inspector Hound" took place yesterday, with the dividing up of parts and people's early ideas about how these characters will operate on stage. It should be a lot of fun.
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