The senior drama class got to see Axis Theatre Company's play today! (Thanks to Ms. Cheema and Ms. Kwon for leading the Grade 8's and 9's in my absence.) Axis Theatre Company is a great local story -- they used to be Axis Mime and their focus is on physical theatre and this show started with a bang with the moon climbing on a stack of chairs and balancing precariously on top. We were all freaked out and amazed at that and wondered if the chairs were attached somehow, or if she really was balancing! (I think she was.) All of theatre is a balancing act and the actors did a great job in this -- I especially liked Lil, the barkeeper/actress -- she had a great way of swooning while being ultra modern. And Simon Webb was very sweet as the older great great grandson of RIP, who had been frozen for a century and awakens to find the world ridden by selfies and selfish oil companies. I liked all the current commentary and the beautiful dog puppet and how it jumped around. We were stunned by the number of references to that great Canadian play, "The Wars of 1812"!! Bigfoot, and the Big Dipper and even "you look a little the worse for wear". It was very exciting to hear those coincidences. Mark was shouting "push on, brave York volunteers!" by the end! We did some exercises in class before we went to the play to remind ourselves to act as members of the audience and it paid off, because the actors and managing director of the show complimented us on our behavior. I was SO PROUD of my students!
It was a lot of fun to see the play and go as a class and we will have more discussion about it tomorrow.
Remember, we will see Grade 9, 11 and 12 monologues tomorrow!
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