Linda’s blog

This week I was able to make a lot of progress, including fixing my script, changing my staging, changing my characters, running an experiment to help me define Brecht’s theater aspect of multi rolling, and also re-think about the light and props I will use. I adjusted my script to make it shorter to fit into the time restriction of the IB performance and also clearer and more straightforward for better understanding and defining  the theater elements for the audience. I changed my staging, including  the narrator, the prince, the bakers’wife, to help my transition on the scene to be smoother, which I do not need to move for a long distance that takes a lot of time and unnecessary attention from the audience. The narrator is going to be down stage center and the story is only going on in the center stage. I changed the lighting into just darkness or a bundle of light on a specific character each time. This is because I want to highlight Brecht’s theater aspect of simple te...

In-class writing:  What do you intend to set as your intention(s)? Base on my plots of my scene, I want to express a central message: whereas a temporary and overwhelming crush can be very attractive and strong in someways, but people are all controlled or ruled over by their dark side of morality and their fates.  For example, whereas the baker's wife and the prince really had an affair in the woods, there were still parted by their own destinies: the prince need to find Cinderella and slaughter the giant, and the baker's wife need to find the things for her son. And why they  had an crush on each other is not they really fell in love but for their own desire of wealth and lust. The Prince liked the Baker's wife because of lust and loneliness; and the baker's wife had an affair with the Prince because she thought she could use him to be her fate to wealth and thus a much better life. What do you hope the impact(s) on the audience will be? I want the audi...

After reviewing the solo project video from the last semester, my teachers and classmates were able to remind me many of my strengths and aspects that I can work on more. In this reflection I am going to talk about what I did well last year and what aspects I wish to do differently and improve on. Just a reminder, my theater theorist is Brecht and his aspects that I have referenced are: coming out of role, multi-rolling, third person narration, and stage techniques such as costumes are laid bare for the audience. The text I used is from  Into The woods by James Lapine. Overall, my plots were brilliant, the costume for each character is simple, and I also picked good source of texts and materials and music too. The scenes I picked has a clear story line that consists of a setting, conflict, climax, down fall, and final resolution. Thus, the audience can easily understand the story and its messages. In addition, particularly changing the costumes and the carnival and circus music h...

Staging: Siobhan in the down stage right White chalk circled the dimension of the body and fake blood on and around the chalk (center of the stage) People dressed in circus costumes dancing Around Christopher in a circular motion with creepy circus music and splashy bright light alteration with dark red light. Christopher sitting on the ground with his hands on this neck and bowed deep into his knees and groaning.  As ms. Shares came out from the upper stage darkness the caircus people ran away and the music fades and screamed when she saw the dog and start chasing Christopher then went back to her dog.