What skills did we discuss today?
- interpretative skills
- technical skills
- interactive skills
Children's theatre
Why is theatre so important and valuable for children?
Theatre is important for children because it is most likely their first piece of theatre they have watched and therefore they will get their first chance in judging whether they like theatre or not. If children's first piece of theatre they watch is terrible, they will have a bad idea on theatre, however if they see a good piece, it could possibly be a trigger of them having a passion for theatre.
The Polka Theatre
- Who are they? They are a theatre company in the UK who put pieces of theatre on for children of young ages- aged 0-14. They have been open since 1979 and it is a fact hat over 90,000 children a year come to the Polka Theatre and are inspired, stimulated and engaged by theatre, often for the fist time.
- Who do they make work for? Children aged 0-14
- What's on at the moment?Dot, Squiggle and rest
World of Stories and Music
Gorilla
What to do when you find a dinosaur
Claytime
Thumbelina
Hurricane Boy
Beasty Baby
Beauty and the Beast
The Bear
The Sagas of Noggin the Dog
Not now, Bernard
The Paper Dolls for Toddlers
The Paper Dolls
The Tigers bones and Other Stories
4. How might this company help us with the work we are devising? This company can help us to understand what young children like and enjoy. Watching and studying this company can give us ideas on how to introduce theatre to our young audience.
The Unicorn Theatre
- Who are they?
It is a company who produce theatre for young children. They think it is very important to "give children a valuable, and often first ever experience of quality theatre". - Who do they make work for?
For young people of all ages. They welcome families, schools and young people. - What's on at the moment?
The longest ride
Far from the Madding Crown
Frozen (singalong)
Enchanted
Mary Poppins
Zarafa
Frozen
Labyrinth
Willow
The Never Ending Story - How might this company help us with the work we are devising?
They will help us to expand our minds to incorporate good, quality ideas to add to our piece so that it is a good experience for our young audience.
What activities did we do today?/ What ideas did you/ your group come up with?/ Was your piece suitable for the target audience?
Today, we got into groups of 5 my group was: Amaia, Jake, Michelle, Antonia and myself. We had to create an atmosphere where "dreams were dead" but we had to include animals in our piece. Amaia was a caterpillar, Antonia was a Sloth, Michelle was a bunny, I was a frog and Jake was the human. We decided to portray the "world where dreams were dead" by using a human who had no imagination, and everything he/she touched would turn into something lifeless, where dreams did not exist. For example when Jake came and touched me (the frog) i turned into a re-filled water machine, when he touched Amaia (the caterpillar) she turned into a bench. I suggested that this would be a good idea to show the world as lifeless, because it was a visual way of showing exciting, energetic life, turning into dull lifeless objects. We also took into consideration of our target audience and thought that our piece would be simple and quite easy to understand because it would look as if the animals died once the person came in contact with it. The young people, would get a sense of death.
Why did we reject some ideas?/ Why did you chose to expand on some decisions?
We decided not to make our piece to complex and too hard to understand with a complicated meaning because otherwise it wouldn't be simple enough for our target audience to understand. We decided to keep our ideas as simple as possible so therefore, it would be easy for the under 4's to understand. We expanded on our idea of showing the death of animals. We used a person to show them killing the animals, making them die. This was a visual way of showing our audience how the life became lifeless.
What acting skills/ performance skills did you use? EXPLAIN WHY these are suitable for the piece and the target audience.
We didn't use our voices to talk in the piece, instead we used our voices to make different animal noises to make the piece more child suitable and more interesting. Using animal noises made it clear for our target audience what we were acting, as animal noises are one of the first things you learn when you are a young person. Once the noises stopped it was a way of communicating to the audience that the animals had died.
Also we used our body language to communicate that we were not humans but animals. Body language is a very important thing in acting. People use it to show how they are feeling or what they are. We used our body language to show that we were animals.
Today, we got into groups of 5 my group was: Amaia, Jake, Michelle, Antonia and myself. We had to create an atmosphere where "dreams were dead" but we had to include animals in our piece. Amaia was a caterpillar, Antonia was a Sloth, Michelle was a bunny, I was a frog and Jake was the human. We decided to portray the "world where dreams were dead" by using a human who had no imagination, and everything he/she touched would turn into something lifeless, where dreams did not exist. For example when Jake came and touched me (the frog) i turned into a re-filled water machine, when he touched Amaia (the caterpillar) she turned into a bench. I suggested that this would be a good idea to show the world as lifeless, because it was a visual way of showing exciting, energetic life, turning into dull lifeless objects. We also took into consideration of our target audience and thought that our piece would be simple and quite easy to understand because it would look as if the animals died once the person came in contact with it. The young people, would get a sense of death.
Why did we reject some ideas?/ Why did you chose to expand on some decisions?
We decided not to make our piece to complex and too hard to understand with a complicated meaning because otherwise it wouldn't be simple enough for our target audience to understand. We decided to keep our ideas as simple as possible so therefore, it would be easy for the under 4's to understand. We expanded on our idea of showing the death of animals. We used a person to show them killing the animals, making them die. This was a visual way of showing our audience how the life became lifeless.
What acting skills/ performance skills did you use? EXPLAIN WHY these are suitable for the piece and the target audience.
We didn't use our voices to talk in the piece, instead we used our voices to make different animal noises to make the piece more child suitable and more interesting. Using animal noises made it clear for our target audience what we were acting, as animal noises are one of the first things you learn when you are a young person. Once the noises stopped it was a way of communicating to the audience that the animals had died.
Also we used our body language to communicate that we were not humans but animals. Body language is a very important thing in acting. People use it to show how they are feeling or what they are. We used our body language to show that we were animals.
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