Here are the exercises you did. For each one you should write what you learnt about the play by doing the task. Don't just describe the exercise. Say why you made the choices you did:
Working on the Prologue.
You created the prologue in pairs by adding in the other character’s lines.
What questions is the taxi driver asking and answering, what lines aren’t in the text?
You needed to think about staging this with imagination (not sat one behind the other, with the driver holding an imaginary steering wheel).
You had time to create, rehearse and then share some/all and discuss.
What did you create and why?
What did another pair do that was effective?
Hot-seating
You continued to explore the TAXI DRIVER.
You did a whole class hot-seat.
Why is hot-seating an effective technique to use in a rehearsal?
What did you learn about the driver?
What questions did you ask?
Ensemble taxi driving:
Whole group activity to explore being a taxi driver.
You all became taxi drivers and created some improvised movement, thought of some lines that the driver might say.
Developed moments of ensemble work – could potentially be part of the final piece.
Explain what you did as a taxi driver. Why did you make these choices? (Think about character- voice/physicality.)
What did other people do?
How did you work as an ensemble?
TALE 8
In groups you read through TALE 8.
You needed to underline anything that suggested a location, weather, or atmosphere to them.
Write some examples of what you underlined OR take some photos of your script.
CREATE/REHEARSE
Once you'd done this you went through anything you'd underlined and created a series of sounds and some movement to develop the scene.
You were asked to focus on creating the atmosphere and think about being the buildings, the weather, and the atmosphere.
You were allowed to use some of the lines from the text – however you might have decided to just use your sounds and movements to tell the tale.
You then SHARED the work with the class and reflected.
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What was effective about the sounds they had decided to use?
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What was effective about the movement they had decided to use?
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How did the work make you feel?
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What could have been developed further?
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Are their many similarities in what groups decided to do?
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Do the sounds and movement have the same impact as just reading out the lines? Is it a better way to help tell this story?
Mr Worden has set you the following for homework:
He put you into groups and has asked you to come to the class next week with ideas, character research and drawings of the characters you are exploring. THIS SHOULD ALSO BE PUT ON YOUR BLOG.
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