Monday, December 6th

Farida is in the house!


Welcome to the new summary.

Everyone has noticed the attitude of the teacher... she was.... well upset...  because this Monday most of us were late, and it was unacceptable dixit TT. By now, each Monday we should be on time... meaning  7.30pm. OOOOh yes!!!TT says!!!

WARMING UP : The circle, warming the voice and shaking the body to take off all the tension of the day.

Also, a new exercise inspired by a workshop on puppets TT took part in on the weekend: in circle, one froggy created a sound that came from his/her body out from his/her mouth, played with it and gave it to another froggy who played with it, swallowed it, created a new sound and so on.

PLAYING IN PAIRS: back to back, we did the same exercise as a couple of weeks ago and developped it : in pairs (usually our partner in the scene we are working on), back to back, we had to try and move together, one being the leader and the other the follower and swapping from time to time. There was some music on: Edward Sharpe of course! But a slow one : "Brother".
Then, face to face, we had to touch each other's face and body. And finally, still facing each other, we had to express different feelings according to TT's ideas: love, hatred, sadness, first touching each other, then only with the face and eyes.

After that, we were ready to work on our short dialogues!


WORKING ON THE TEXT :

We had to work in pairs with our own text and find :
  - Our goal and how we can achieve thiat goal
  - Who the leader is and who the follower is and at when they swap.

TT gave us 20 minutes to work on our text. Then we showed our performance to the class and to TT as well.

FIRST TEAM ==> Thibault and Farida
- PLOT : A cocktail party. A woman and a man had a conversation with "questions and answers" to see if they.
- TT's direction : Farida has to be sexier and tries to charm Thibault . Thibault has to be shier and focus on his questions and her answers. Then he becomes more entrepresing.This is when the woman begins to be afraid.

SECOND TEAM ==> Florence and William
- PLOT : A man (William) paid another one (Florence) to kill a man. They speak about how and when the killer killed this man.
- TT's direction : William has to be more confident and more directive with the killer when he is speaking. Florence is nconfortable about the situation. Then, Florence feels very confident and speaks loudly about how she killed the man with details. William is impressed and begins to feel less confident than at the beginning.

THE LAST TEAM ==>  Gloria, Anaïs and Boubakar
- PLOT :  A mother was completly hysterical because her daugther didn't get the audition and felt that it was not fair. She fights with her daughter who is fed up with the behaviour of her mother.
- TT 's directions:  Boubakar doesn't need to speak, Gloria was great and Anaïs as well ( sorry I don't, really, remember he commentary of the teacher -:)  ) NOT good Farida, not good at all! TT says hé!hé! Actually TT said that the two womend did not need to care about Boubakar, they had to fight around him and then in front of him. Boubakar, the father, couldn't care less.

To finish, we watched some extracts from "Thank God You're Here!", an Australian comedy show where comedians have to improvise in an environment they knew nothing about. Ex: One of the actors discovers she is the anchor of a sports show and has to present a new machine to work out.
The aim: do the same in 2011!


Everyone has worked very hard during this session... and TT added that we were ready, now, to learn by heart the text. Congratulations everyone!

And that's all folks ;-)

By the way, Bradra.... where were last monday ???????
Also, we welcomed a new Froggy: Jiani, who is great of course!