Forced fairy tail

For this project we have been put into 3 groups of 4 and have been given the task of devising our own performance of a Roald Dahl story. My group and I have been given James and the Giant Peach. Whilst creating our performances we have to combine elements of dance and story-telling together to make our performance similar to physical theatre. So far in our group we have came up with a few ideas of what we could do for our performance and as well as giving the members of our group roles to do in the performance. I have been given the roles the Criket and Aunt sponge, this meant I had to multi-role. I am very happy that I got these two roles to James and the Giant Peach because I have always been interested in these characters and have always wanted to play as them. I am also excited to play a villain role. We also had an insight into physical theatre by watching various physical theatrical groups. This was interesting to watch as much like myself and the rest of the group has never really seen a physical theatre. This has definitely helped me to get more of an idea of what it is like,  I did feel however when I was watching these clips that physical theatre wasn't at all like I was expecting. In fact, it was so much better and was interesting to see how people use their bodies to tell stories. I was very intrigued by it all. I am very much looking forward to this project as it will be something different and will be interesting. We also got given a physical theatre dance lesson by our course tutor and it was very enjoyable. It did get tougher as we kept getting more instructions to do but was interesting to see how I got on. I now feel like I know a bit about physical theatre and this will definitely help me and my fellow group members to do our later performance. We are now beginning to work on adding elements of dance into our performance to show the different motives and personalities of the characters. For example, my character Aunt sponge  is a very cruel women who takes pleasure in taunting and bullying young James (in this case Janice). So I had to show her personality more through movement. I did find this quite difficult because I didn't know how to use my body to show these characteristics. I got given advice by my fellow group members on how to do so. We chose another male member of my group to portray Aunt Sponge to walk more or less in time with myself as Aunt Sponge and lunge towards Janice for the first scene. I was happy how the first scene went and I am now feel more confident in using my body to perform. I do feel however that I need to show more facial expressions throughout my time on stage to create effect and show my character's personality more. I have also enjoyed giving feedback to the other groups. That way they can learn from their mistakes they make and can progress. My group and I have now created the first 4 scenes of our performance. In our first scene we will have Janice in the middle of the floor with the aunts walking on from different sides to taunt her. They then pick her up and fight over her which later ends with Janice pushing them off. I am happy with this scene but I do feel however that our characters need to be developed further because they don't look realistic nor believable. I have taken on board what my tutor said the last time we went through that scene ,and I agree that the aunts could be seen more as a comedy duo like the Ugly Stepsisters from Cinderella. This is something that can be worked on. By showing that the aunt sponge and aunt spiker are quite comical and dumb-witted, we could kthought I worked well and had lots of ideas which I then shared with my group. We have now put together a beginning, middle and an end to our performance piece. We had a lot of time putting this all together and now looks more like a story. We have worked on our characters more and have had an insight into creating a small dance routine for our characters. I really enjoyed doing this because we could come up with any element of dance and real-life movement and turn it into a piece of dance. I am now feeling really confident with our performance as things are gradually coming together. 

 

James and the giant peach "STORY BOARD "

Scene one

In scene one they is Matt,Luke as the ugly aunts and Tamrny as Janice playing James, Janice will be sit down on the floor when the ugly aunts come in and we pick her up and swing her 4 time then she pushes us away and we run back to get her then she kick us away,then we run off but the ugly aunts bump in to eachother tht the end of scene one.

Scene two 

 In scene two it begins with Tamrny and Georgia, Tamrny will be standing we Georgia walks in as an old man and they do they move movement.

Scene three

In scene Janice does her solo then she knees down and then every comes Matt Luke and Georgia the Luke and Georgia picks her up and she try to run and the pull her back then she falls in Matt catches her and he push her and she falls and then Matt Georgia and Luke lift her up in the air and we do the clicking and spinning going out.

Scene four 

Tamrny and Georgia goes in doing a duet then Matt and Luke comes in with a duets two and then Georgia and Tamrny goes out of stage and Luke and Matt have their own funny movement.

`JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH

In 1947, James Henry Trotter is a young boy who lives with his parents by the sea in the United Kingdom. On James' birthday, they plan to go to New york city and visit the Empire State Building, the tallest building in the world. However, his parents are killed by a ghostly rhinoceros from the sky and finds himself living with his two abusive aunts, Spiker and Sponge. He is forced to work all day and they threaten him with beatings and the mysterious rhino if he tries to leave. While rescuing a spider from being squashed by his aunts, James meets a mysterious man with a bag of magic green "crocodile tongues", which he gives to James to make his life better. The soldier warns him not to lose the "tongues" and disappears. When James is returning to the house, he trips and the "tongues" escape into the ground.


One peach is soon found on a withered old tree, and it grows to immense proportions. Spiker and Sponge use the giant peach as an attraction, making lots of money as James watches from the house, not allowed to leave. That night, James is sent to pick up the garbage. While doing so, he grabs a chunk of the peach to eat as one of the "crocodile tongues" jumps into it. A large hole appears inside the peach and James ventures inside, were he finds and befriends a group of life-size anthropomorphic bugs who also dream of an ideal home (Mr. Grasshopper, Mr. Centipede, Earthworm, Miss Spider, Mrs. Ladybug, and Glowworm). As they hear the aunts search for James, Centipede manages to cut the stem holding the giant peach to the tree and the peach rolls away to the Atlantic Ocean with James and his friends inside it.

Remembering his dream to visit New York City, James and the insects decide to go there, They use Miss Spider's silk to capture and tie a hundred seagulls to the peach stem, while battling against a giant robotic shark. They escape just in time. While flying, James and his friends eventually find themselves hungry and soon realize that "their whole ship is made out of food". After gorging most of the inside of the peach, Miss Spider, while using her web to tuck in James, reveals to him that she was the spider he saved from Spiker and Sponge. James then has a nightmare of him as a caterpillar attacked by Spiker, Sponge, and the rhino. When he wakes up, he and his friends find themselves in The Arctic, lost and cold. Mr. Centipede has fallen asleep while keeping watch, resulting in them further away from their destination than ever. After hearing Mr. Grasshopper wishing they had a compass, Mr. Centipede jumps off the peach into the icy water below and searches a sunken ship. He finds a compass but is taken prisoner by a group of skeletal pirates. James and Miss Spider rescue him and the journey continues.

Citizenship

My character is Stephen in the citiezenship and my costume for it is

White shirt

Green tie

Jean

White vans

Though the play I will be wearing a white plain shirt with a jean and a tie, I am student and my costume will make me look like a propare student.

Pros for the play

Alcohol bottle filled with water for Amy and Tom for scene 1 and a mobile phone for Amy

Fake cigarettes for the gang in scene 2-5 

Mobile phone for De clerk and Gary to use for scene 3,4

A plastic baby for the girls 2,5,7

SnapBacks for Tom,Ray,Stephen scene 2 and 8

Hair dye for Tom 

Card for Tom and Tarrot reader 

The roles in the citizenship and played by

Tom- Luke

Amy- Sarah 

Ray- Georgia

Stephen- Matthew  

Martin- Henry 

Tarrot reader- Tamrny 

Melissa- Roisin 

Alicia- Kelsey

Key- Amber 

Chantel- Emma 

Gary- Ricardo

De clerk- Daniel

Tarrot reader daughter- Sonia 

In November we started looking at our own show as level 2.The play is called Citizinship by Mark Ravenhill and we had to audition today. I auditioned for a called Stephen and Martin the reason i auditioned for them they fit me. I researched for the play before audition the play is about a teenage trying to figure what he is. Ella gave us a script to learn for our auditions. i think our auditions went so well today. we had to auditon in pairs with the people we learned the lines with the audition we soo amazing. I'm going to get the part i reckon cause i think i done well. 

The part which I got was Stephen. My character is called Stephen. Stephen is a school badman with his bestfriend Ray. stephen is still at school. I'm like Ray's pet. I follow what ever Ray says. Stephen is 16 years old he is in his last year of high school. stephen is trying to act the as badman but Ray is the biggest badman. Ray has more authority over the rest.if stephen wants to say something he looks at Ray to confirm if it appropriate for the conversation. Stephen and Ray are like Batman and Robin, Ray is Batman and Stephen is Robin a sidekick.

In December we started block our play and it was going very well but it took long time for people to learn their line our show ran in 22 and 23 January 2014 our first show went really well and funny, the second show went amazing people picked up the mistakes we done on our first performance.