Journal topics for February 19, 2021

 Drama 9:  Describe your twisted fairy tale.  What was the plot?  How did you "twist" the original story?  What role did you play?  What did you do to create the character (costume, gestures and posture, way of speaking, etc.)  Was it funny?  Explain why or why not.

Also, which scripted scene (written by one of your classmates) are you in (give the title and a sentence that explains what it is about) are you performing in?  Who are you playing?  How will you make yourself believable as that character? 

Senior Drama:  

All:  Write a paragraph commenting on the short film, "The Sender", which is part of that CBC series called "21 Black Futures".  You can look at it again if you forget it.  You can access it for free on CBC Gem.

Fill out the Love Connection survey (in the previous blog).  You can fill it out as yourself, or as a character you would like to play.

Actors:  What sort of character would you like to play in "The Love Connection"?  Describe them in detail, including their age, occupation, family situation, hopes and dreams, hobbies, etc.  What would they wear to the show?

Theatre production:  Design a set for the tv show -- "The Love Connection".  How would you dress the hosts of the show?  (Gabrielle and Romauldo)  How would you dress the Electrical Connection singers?  We'll need theme music -- find something that is not under copyright!  

Directors/Scriptwriters:  Choose two actors from the class and describe the characters they will play in "The Love Connection".  Write a scene for them  (in the style that Ms. Kosar has kicked off in the intro, which is attached below).

If we kill somebody in the show, how will that be accomplished?  Write a scene for the murder/killing/death.

Attachment:  Kosar's opening for "The Love Connection":

Love Connection!

 Music.  Flashing lights. 

 

“Love Me Do” – presented by the Electrical Connection singers.

 

Gabrielle Storm and Romauldo Carduzzio run out from opposite sides of the stage, waving at the crowd.  (Crowd noises.)  They wave happily at the crowd.

 

Gabrielle:  Hey everybody!  Welcome to the Love Connection!  Hi, Romauldo!  How are you doing?

 

Romauldo:  Just great, Gabby!  You?

 

Gabrielle:  Great, too.  Hey, did I see you with a love connection last night?

 

Romauldo:  (coy)  I don’t know, Gabby.  Did you?

 

Gabrielle:  Are you blushing?  Audience?  Is he?

 

Audience:  Yes!  He is!  He’s blushing!

 

Gabrielle:  Well, folks.  I saw this young fella HOLDING HANDS WITH A LOVELY YOUNG WOMAN yesterday at the park.  They had one bubble tea between them . . . and not much else.  No social distancing there.  (She wags her finger at him.)

 

Want to tell us more?

 

Romauldo:  Well, not too much more – don’t want to jinx things in these early days.  We just met, and I am very interested – she’s not just beautiful outside, Gabby.  She’s beautiful inside, too.

 

Gabrielle:  Yeah, I think you were close enough to examine her internal structure!

 

(Audience laughs.)

 

Romauldo:  Well, enough about me.  Let’s get the show started.  Watson and Coralee went out on a date on our dime last night – let’s hear about how that went.

 

Gabrielle:  Come on down, you two crazy kids!

 

Watson and Coralee come down the opposite aisles.

 

Gabrielle:  Let’s give them a hand, everybody.  (The audience claps.)

 

Watson leans over to kiss Coralee, but she rejects him.

 

Romauldo:  Whoa!  That’s not a very auspicious start.  Coralee?

 

Coralee:  He was a bit of a disappointment, Romauldo.

 

Watson:  What?

 

Coralee:  He TOLD me he was a college graduate, but the college he went to was advertised on his own Youtube channel.

 

Watson:  So?

 

Gabrielle:  Audience?  What do you think of that?  (Mumbles from audience.)

 

Woman in audience:  Was it a real college?

 

Coralee:  It was called the College of School and offered degrees while you waited for your pizza to bake.  We went there for our supposed gourmet dinner.

 

Man in audience:  What kind of pizza did you order?

 

Watson:  Ham and pineapple!

 

Man in audience:  Okay, you’re a loser.

 

Other woman in audience:  I LIKE pineapple on pizza.

 

Man in audience:  You’re an idiot.

 

Watson:  In my defence, I did get straight A’s.

 

Coralee:  In what?  Anchovies?

 

Romauldo:  Ouch!  What do you say to that, Watson?

 

Watson:  Well, I didn’t think much of her either.  All she talked about was herself and her job – she wasn’t interested in me at all.

 

Coralee:  My job is interesting.

 

Gabrielle:  What do you do, Coralee?

 

Coralee:  I’m an astronaut.

 

(Audience hums with excitement.)

 

Coralee:  And I’m punting Watson to the moon.

 

(Wa-wa-waaa sound.  Watson and Coralee exit.)

 

Gabrielle:  Well, that date didn’t go as well as we had hoped, did it, audience?

 

Audience:  NO!

 

Romauldo:  Did everyone in the audience fill out their love connection forms?

 

Audience:  YES!

 

Gabrielle:  Great!  Let’s get our beautiful and talented Taylor Sinclair to collect the forms and feed them into the love connection computer, Hal!

 

Audience:  HAL!  HAL!  HAL!