4th Week: Clever Jackal

Today they have started class reviewing "Elements of a Play":
Theme - Communication -Conflict -Mood - Character - Plot - Stagecraft.
In the picture we can observe the different "Directors" of the different teams leading their actors during the rehearsal:

In order to follow the Trilingualism General Project for the English subjects, this term we have started working with tales. The difference is that  in Drama Workshop we choose tales to be performed or we write the necessary dialogues for the number of actors of the class.

Our first tale will be Clever Jackal. It's an interesing and witty story situated in Africa. Different animals give different solutions  not to be eaten by Tiger.
                          

  In the pictures we see them reading aloud and setting the story on the class stage.

Games and Techniques

We have started rehearsing sketches; but we don't forget improvisations and other techniques.
In the first pictures several directors direct their group to present the elements of a Drama.

 If they feel proud of their performance, they shake hands. If not... who knows what will happen?

 Besides, they have a time to improvise. On this occassion there are two topics.
"You are eating a sandwich and a friend comes to be invited. You don't want to."

"You are reading a book under a tree. The rest of students go there with a different action."

3rd week: The Tkt Inspector

Our warm-ups for this week are based on improvisations.

First, they play "hot seating". They sit down in front of their mates and talk for a non-stop minute.

Then, they go on working with Characters & Emotions.

       Expressing five emotions

      1.     You are…  kind

      2.     You are… cruel

      3.     You are… aggressive

      4.     You are… sensitive

      5.     You are inquisitive

Ways of working:

a       -  Write a sentence of what that person might do and say

         -  Use an action using the sentence.

c       -  Use the action and the sentence: at home, at a table in a café, on a park bench or wherever you want.

More words that can be used:

proud	greedy	shy	nervous	stupid
friendly	careless	clumsy	mad	old
peculiar	Bad.tempered	worried	angry	happy
conceited	ignorant	sexy	overworked	depressed
enthusiastic	intelligent	sad

In the second part of the class, we read the first sketch for the next play: The Ticket Inspector.