Drama Performed to Others :: Drama

Drama Performed to OthersOur drama class was given the task of introducing a year nine class tothe renovate Macbeth. Apart from the obvious, there were quintette themes inthe play that the group as a whole thought necessitate exploring insanitygood versus mediocre the supernatural guilty conscience and murder. Welooked into each of these topics individually and decided on how wecould include them in our final performance, in each lesson we erudite much and more about both Macbeth and the skills needed to teach a young year group the basics of the play. We decided that the firstthing that needed to be learned was the creation of atmosphere onstage. We did this by get d avouch the lights, putting just a candle inthe centre of the room, and play the sound effect of rain andhowling gales. We each had to find whiz word that summed up thefeeling in the room. The key words that came up were remembered passim our development of the piece of drama and we tried tocapture these feeling s on stage. retention in role and developing aconvincing character was crucial for the task and I learned thisover the period of time twist up to our final performance.We had decided to show five still-images to the year nines and, onwith a narration, tell the story as an introduction. In groups wepicked out the five points that seemed most significant the meetingof the witches on the heath the persuasion view (between Macbethand peeress Macbeth) the banquet scene the second witches scene (thepremonitions) and the scene where Macduff finally kills Macbeth. Inthese groups we performed the still-images and showed what eachcharacter was thinking through thought-tracking, which added depth tothe image.In pairs we performed our feature versions of the persuasion scene, withone playing Macbeth and one playing Lady Macbeth. throughmanipulation, Lady Macbeth always beats Macbeth one way or another,and we learned to create the right mood on stage, this extemporizationalwork helped d evelop characterisation. subsequently discussing the scene we were to study (the banquet scene ActThree, Scene Four) and read through the original script, we beganimprovisation of a modern-day remake of the scene. Our class decidedto work in just one group and we were sure we wanted to bring thescene to a modern-day setting so we could come up with our owninterpretation. As a group we had to decide on who the Macbeth of the21st snow would be, and came up with plenty of suggestions. The onewe finally decided on was a night-club owner, the night-club