Last week before the holidays!

It's spirit week!  Dress up to earn points for your improv team!  Monday -- White Out (dress in white!); Tuesday - Red And Green; Wednesday - Ugly Holiday Sweater Day -- wear your ugliest sweater!! ; Thursday -- Let's pretend it's New Year's Eve!  Dress up in your very best "bib and tucker"!   Friday -- Breakfast with Santa -- get up early, come to school and stay in your pjs all day!

Remember, in your journal, if you have a preference for one person to improv with, write this at the bottom of your journal.

I, (your name here), would like to work with _________.

Journal topics:

Grade 8's:  How do you think the world was created?  Could you make a play about your theory?  Explain how.
What have you and your group decided for your "creation" play so far?

Grade 9 and 10:  What current event would make a good play for our school?  Describe, in detail, what you would do to design a play about the current event you chose.

Theatre Production:

One thing theatre production people have to do is to create sets and props out of common household things.  Last year, we made a fire extinguisher out of a plant spray bottle.  We covered it with red duct tape, trimmed it up with silver duct tape, and attached labels and warning tags, just like an actual fire extinguisher.  This year, we simulated a car with a platform, a big wooden box, an old car seat and a blue cloth.  Even "Charlie's Funhouse" was quite a simple arrangement.

Here are a couple of problems we've dealt with in the last few years staging plays here at Steveston-London:

- how would you create the severed head of a character?  (He appears at the beginning of the play and then is attacked by rebels.  They drag him off and return shortly afterward with his head!)  What would you do?  /5

- a character is locked in a cage and made to think he's in hell, in "foul damp darkness".  A group of four other characters torment him and we need to hear the trapped character and see him.  This is a funny scene.  What would you do?   /5
 
- the opening scene of your play is an airplane crash.  The rest of the play takes place on the beach where the plane has gone down.  What will you do?   /5

- a character kills his best friend and then serves a banquet for a group of acquaintances.  The ghost of the best friend appears at the banquet.  What will you do about the food?  (Be specific.) What would you do to stage this?   /5

It's good if you can draw pictures to illustrate your ideas.