Gladys is in da house!
Warming up
Victoire managed the group : everybody had to follow her movements on the music.
It was a relaxing exercise.
Working on the text
A friend of Anaïs came in the room to play the piano. It was fantastic. She played music before the short scenes and also during them.
The scenes took place in a pub. There weresome waitresses to serve the customers of the pub.
The first group : William & Florence :
They have to know perfectly their texts and maybe be more confident. ( it is the advice from TT because in my opinion they were perfect !). In their scene, Florence is a killer and she killed someone for William. Indeed, William paid Florence so that she would the victim. That's why Florence and William have to be terrifying. The scene takes place in a public place so they have to be a little bit discreet. Nobody in the pub must understand their dialog.
The second group : Thibaut & Farida
Farida was hurt so for her it was more difficult to play her role.
Farida and Thibault have a romantic date. They don’t know each other. Thibaut is focused on his questions to check Farida's personality. The problem is that Farida has strange answers. However, Thibaut is charmed by Farida and he becomes very enterprising : he touches Farida and he takes off his clothes !! Farida is afraid.
TT advised to know the text better. TT wants Farida and Thibault to know their text very well.
TT has a lot of demands. And she underlines that the actors have to note her advices and comments. Consequently they will be able to remember the advices and be better next time they play.
The third group : Anaïs and, replacing Boubakar and Gloria: William & Maria
Anaïs has to deal with a new mother and father because the original actors didn’t participate in the session. So William was a scatterbrained father, sometimes he was dreaming and he forgot saying some phrases (exactly like the original father played by Boubakar)
Maria was a stressed mother, she was less crazy than the orginal mother.
Anaïs can’t stand the comments of her mother, TT thinks that she has also to know perfectly her text.
The athmosphere the pub was very cool up to that moment. There are candles and some people who share a nice moment with a drink. But suddenly, the music starts and everybody gets up. The song is “Home” from Edward Sharpe …and TT wants that we learn the text. The objective is to sing the verse one after the other and to sing together during the refrain. Moreover we have to create a dance, Victoire manages this dance and the other members have to follow her. It was a groovy moment !!
As everybody is very invested in each role, TT was cool and let us have a break to smoke or to discuss in the room.
The second part of the lesson
We worked on the text and the different scenes of “The mousetrap” from Agatha Christie.
It will be our master piece.
We had to represent the different scenes in 10 pictures.
The play takes place in England.
TT wants us to create pictures to represent the different scenes.
In the first scene, Mollie and Gilles were proud to open their Guest House called “ Monkwell Manor Guest House”. On the radio, we learned that there was a murder recently in Paddington. Maureen Lyon was killed. This woman and her husband were in charge of 3 orphans. But they didn’t correctly assist these children, they ill-treated them.
The 2nd picture : Christopher Wren arrives, he is the first guest and he seems to be a strange person. Maybe he is schizophrenic.
The 3rd picture : Mrs Boyle and Major Metcalf arrive at the same time because they shared a taxi.
Mrs Boyle has a very bad temper. She was the magistrate who decided to place the 3 orphans. Now she is retired. Major Metcalf is also retired, he was a former soldier. Christopher comes back and chats up with Mollie.
The 4th picture : Miss Casewell arrives, she is nice. Mollie stresses because of the unpleasant Mrs Boyle. Christopher suggests to help Mollie to prepare the dinner.
The 5st picture : A new guest arrives but he didn’t book a bedroom. He is here by accident, because of the snow outside. He doesn’t want to give a lot of details about himself. He is mysterious. Mollie and Gilles agree to welcome him for the night.
The 6th picture : Mrs Boyle is more and more unpleasant. She criticizes everything. On the contrary, Major Metcalf and Christopher are friendly.
The 7th picture : The police calls the guest house because they want to check something but we don’t what exactly. The only thing we know is that a policeman may arrive to the hotel in the night. When the guests learn the news they worry and they are anxious.
The 8th picture : The policeman arrives and he explains that he is here to protect everybody. The reason of his presence is that the killer of Maureen Lyon lost a paper close to the victim. On this paper, the name of “Monkswell Manor” was written. Besides, there is another detail on the paper: there was a drawing with 3 little mice and a child song, the music was Three Little Mice
The 9th picture : Everbody is anxious and can suspect the other people in the Manor. Some of them are afraid , the other find this story exciting.
Final picture : The policeman wants to use the phone, but Mollie explains that the phone doesn’t work. At that moment, Trotter is really anxious. Maybe the murderer is there, in the house. Everybody gets out of the main room except for Mrs Boyle.
Mrs Boyle listens to the radio. Suddendly the lights go off. Mollie is afraid. There is a big noise in the room. When Mollie is able to switch on the light, she sees Mrs Boyle lying strangled in front of the sofa.
And that's all for tonight!
Warming up
Victoire managed the group : everybody had to follow her movements on the music.
It was a relaxing exercise.
Working on the text
A friend of Anaïs came in the room to play the piano. It was fantastic. She played music before the short scenes and also during them.
The scenes took place in a pub. There weresome waitresses to serve the customers of the pub.
The first group : William & Florence :
They have to know perfectly their texts and maybe be more confident. ( it is the advice from TT because in my opinion they were perfect !). In their scene, Florence is a killer and she killed someone for William. Indeed, William paid Florence so that she would the victim. That's why Florence and William have to be terrifying. The scene takes place in a public place so they have to be a little bit discreet. Nobody in the pub must understand their dialog.
The second group : Thibaut & Farida
Farida was hurt so for her it was more difficult to play her role.
Farida and Thibault have a romantic date. They don’t know each other. Thibaut is focused on his questions to check Farida's personality. The problem is that Farida has strange answers. However, Thibaut is charmed by Farida and he becomes very enterprising : he touches Farida and he takes off his clothes !! Farida is afraid.
TT advised to know the text better. TT wants Farida and Thibault to know their text very well.
TT has a lot of demands. And she underlines that the actors have to note her advices and comments. Consequently they will be able to remember the advices and be better next time they play.
The third group : Anaïs and, replacing Boubakar and Gloria: William & Maria
Anaïs has to deal with a new mother and father because the original actors didn’t participate in the session. So William was a scatterbrained father, sometimes he was dreaming and he forgot saying some phrases (exactly like the original father played by Boubakar)
Maria was a stressed mother, she was less crazy than the orginal mother.
Anaïs can’t stand the comments of her mother, TT thinks that she has also to know perfectly her text.
The athmosphere the pub was very cool up to that moment. There are candles and some people who share a nice moment with a drink. But suddenly, the music starts and everybody gets up. The song is “Home” from Edward Sharpe …and TT wants that we learn the text. The objective is to sing the verse one after the other and to sing together during the refrain. Moreover we have to create a dance, Victoire manages this dance and the other members have to follow her. It was a groovy moment !!
As everybody is very invested in each role, TT was cool and let us have a break to smoke or to discuss in the room.
The second part of the lesson
We worked on the text and the different scenes of “The mousetrap” from Agatha Christie.
It will be our master piece.
We had to represent the different scenes in 10 pictures.
The play takes place in England.
TT wants us to create pictures to represent the different scenes.
In the first scene, Mollie and Gilles were proud to open their Guest House called “ Monkwell Manor Guest House”. On the radio, we learned that there was a murder recently in Paddington. Maureen Lyon was killed. This woman and her husband were in charge of 3 orphans. But they didn’t correctly assist these children, they ill-treated them.
The 2nd picture : Christopher Wren arrives, he is the first guest and he seems to be a strange person. Maybe he is schizophrenic.
The 3rd picture : Mrs Boyle and Major Metcalf arrive at the same time because they shared a taxi.
Mrs Boyle has a very bad temper. She was the magistrate who decided to place the 3 orphans. Now she is retired. Major Metcalf is also retired, he was a former soldier. Christopher comes back and chats up with Mollie.
The 4th picture : Miss Casewell arrives, she is nice. Mollie stresses because of the unpleasant Mrs Boyle. Christopher suggests to help Mollie to prepare the dinner.
The 5st picture : A new guest arrives but he didn’t book a bedroom. He is here by accident, because of the snow outside. He doesn’t want to give a lot of details about himself. He is mysterious. Mollie and Gilles agree to welcome him for the night.
The 6th picture : Mrs Boyle is more and more unpleasant. She criticizes everything. On the contrary, Major Metcalf and Christopher are friendly.
The 7th picture : The police calls the guest house because they want to check something but we don’t what exactly. The only thing we know is that a policeman may arrive to the hotel in the night. When the guests learn the news they worry and they are anxious.
The 8th picture : The policeman arrives and he explains that he is here to protect everybody. The reason of his presence is that the killer of Maureen Lyon lost a paper close to the victim. On this paper, the name of “Monkswell Manor” was written. Besides, there is another detail on the paper: there was a drawing with 3 little mice and a child song, the music was Three Little Mice
The 9th picture : Everbody is anxious and can suspect the other people in the Manor. Some of them are afraid , the other find this story exciting.
Final picture : The policeman wants to use the phone, but Mollie explains that the phone doesn’t work. At that moment, Trotter is really anxious. Maybe the murderer is there, in the house. Everybody gets out of the main room except for Mrs Boyle.
Mrs Boyle listens to the radio. Suddendly the lights go off. Mollie is afraid. There is a big noise in the room. When Mollie is able to switch on the light, she sees Mrs Boyle lying strangled in front of the sofa.
And that's all for tonight!
