Punctuation dancing

When we did the punctuation dancing we had to do a movement for every bit of punctuation was included in the sentance from the script we had to say out loud. me and willa were given cheung's sentance that sys "no. she wants her money. the money my mother borrowed to get us over here. my mother died in the lorry we were in on our way over here" cheung seems like a very blunt charater by what i've read and expressed through punctiation dancing. he uses a lot of full stops and likes to get to the point. he doesn't like to go into detail he just tells it like it is. some of it may be because of the language barrier.

Review on yesterday's rehearsal

Yesterday's rehearsal went really well because the play started to come together and make much more sense, than the other weeks which were more confusing. 

We worked on blocking and and how we would perform the piece and set it out, i think the part when we have to move the chairs onto the scene is good because we can set up chairs instead of all the studants becoming furniture which wasn't very comfortable. Everyone did really well on their lines in that rehearsal but everybody still needs a bit of practice. i found out which lines i will be saying for my split part which has made learning lines easier.

Warm up excercise/character conversations

The warm up excercise we did in theatre yesterday was really fun because we got to introduce our characters to each other and see how they would communicate which was really interesting. some characters got on really well with each other whilst other characters didn't get on as well, with my charatcer she got on much better with the adults than the children.She gets on well with most people because she can understand their languages but the refugee kids seem least likely to want to talk to her,as if she was invading their privacy and asking too many questions.

Peer evaluation

When we were asked to write about who's performanced we thought was good during rehersal i chose Ell because I think she worked really as her character and memorized her lines. she never forgot her words and was great at getting into her character.

character thoughts about self-help group

I was so shocked when I found out about the stabbing, I knew this boy, and I had spoken to him before and he seemed if not a little on edge;perfectly fine. I was looking through some foreign papers for my job when I came across the story in a London newspaper.At first I didn't know how to react because this was just a young boy. Normally I would of dismissed this and thought "oh typical London youth stabbing someone again" if I hadn't known the boy, but I did.
 It effects you so much differently when you actually know the person. Everyone in the meeting today cared about Kojo in one way or another and I know I only spoke to him for a short period of time but I feel for him and what he's going through. It was such a life changing experience actually hearing his view of the story. The meeting really helped me to understand how the kids I translate for really feel.

Character

My character the translator doesn't really say anything about herself but this could be because she's  reserved person and likes to get on with her job without any sort of information about herself being told.
My character doesn't say much about other people's character either but it's likely she doesn't want to get involved with other people's life or maybe she could just be quite rude and just plain not interested.
Kojo say's in scene 9, page 22 "they've given her glasses...to make her look clever...the clever one" this suggests something about her character. it suggests she very intelligent and proffesional.

London sanctuary group welcoming refugee's

http://www.cityofsanctuary.org/node/395

Given Circumstances+Why i want to play the two characters I've chosen

Lesson recap

In  Thursday's lesson we talked about given circumstances and gave some to our characters. Given circumstances are simple statements including facts about a person or character e.g "Ara is a from Afghanistan" I had to give some given circumstances for the two characters i wanted to play;Refugee Manager or Roza.Here are the given circumstances i came up with:Refugee Manager-

• She runs the refugee camp

• she's from London

• generally friendly but serious when needed

• a sort of mother figure to the refugee's but not as emotionally attached 

Roza-

• She's from Iraq

• she and Hassan are friends

• they get along because they speak the same language

• friendly and always putting up with Hassan's teasing

This made me think a lot more about the characters and want to find out more about their background. it made me understand that there is much more to the character than what's written on the script.

Why i want to play the characters I've chosen 

I would love to play a character like the refugee manager because it's a great character with lots of different personalities. one minute she's friendly towards Kojo, the new boy, and the next minute she's breaking up a fight and being very strict. i would love to be able to play this character and work on showing these different personalities throughout the play.

My second choice of character was Roza, although she doesn't say much she is a vital character because she helps Kojo throughout his story alongside Chueng,Ara and Hassan. i think that her relationship with Hassan is quite comedic and would love to get to play a character who uses comedy in their part.

Research on Afghan war for Ara's character

UK forces have been in Afghanistan for almost a decade. The death toll now exceeds that of the Iraq war and more than 100 soldiers died last year.

The true number of civilians killed in the Afghan conflict will probably never be known. ISAF has only recently begun to count the numbers of civilians killed.The U.S. has authorized $557 billion to fund the war in Afghanistan — enough for every man, woman and child in Chicago to buy 20 iPads, 30 Kindle Fires, Bulls season tickets and a campaign fundraiser photo with Michelle Obama every night for a year.Very little is known about the elusive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar — except that he has one eye. According to Abdul Salam Zaeef, a former high-ranking member of the Taliban, Omar lost his eye fighting the Soviets in vicious, hand-to-hand street fighting in the 1980s. Zaeef wrote that the next day, Omar had to be persuaded to get treatment rather than continue the fight.

 

kojo

ara

cheung

Response to Fugee :)

In yesterday's theater lesson we were introduced to our play we would perform in term 3, Fugee.
I think the play is very well written because the actors come out of character and speak as the actor,so it tries to get the audience to understand that it's not real and they are watching a play.I have never used this technique before and it would be fun learning how to use it.
I'm looking forward to rehearsing and performing this play :)