White Night Festival in Brighton this Saturday.

http://www.whitenightnuitblanche.com/brighton/

George and Bronya

I'm always available to give lessons (without sounding patronizing!) Give me a call/text and I will respond asap. This is open to anyone, tell your friends!
Gwen
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Have you both tried looking at the bottom of the post to where it says 0 comments? hover over that with the cursor, and click - this should allow you to type your response to specific posts...If that 's not working I'm not sure!

Response to George

Hey George,
I'd help if I could but I can't :( I'm having trouble too so I think there are now two people in your class!
Hey All,
Please help me too as I can only post new posts instead of reponding to others. It seems this bog won't let me reply to anything and I don't know why. It says I don't have a google account which obviously I do because I've signed in and I'm writing this right now!!!! I seem to be doing ok with pictures though :)

George is stuck!

Guys!! I haven't got a clue what I'm doing on this here Blog :( I could, in hindsight, really do with a hand learning how to iuse this thing to it's full potential! If anyone fancies volunteering that would be gratefully recieved and in return, I will buy the volunteer a pint! Woohoo! I've got two of our 'Disco Pigs' scenes on my iPhone; myself and Nicole's and Samantha and Hania's :) I dunno how to upload them onto here, and I'm thinking I kinda need to! So yeah, a bit of a tutorial session would be marvellous :) Also, the teachings of the Facebook Group and Blackboard have not yet reached me, so any know-how on those and how to upload etc. onto them would also be fantasmic!! Cheers peeps :) Hope you're all having a good half term?! See ya next week :) x

Cork slang

Hey all,
Here is a youtube link to hear interpretations of Cork slang:

Warning! this video link contains offensive language!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ownJd6P4xcU

There are many other related videos which may help with the Disco Pigs language and accent!

Marxism definition

Here is the definition of Marxism from AS Level Sociology 2008 Webb R, Westergaard H, Trobe K, Steel L.
"A conflict perspective based on the ideas of Karl Marx (1818-83). It sees society as divided into two opposed classes, one of which exploits the labour of the other. In capitalist society, the bourgeoisie exploits the proletariat. Marx predicted the proletariat would unite and overthrow capitaliam and create a classless society."

Bourgeoisie - Marxist term for the capitalist class, the owners of the means of production.

Proletariat - the working class in capitalist society. They own no means of production and are "wage slaves", forced to sell their labour to the bourgeoisie in order to survive.

Thursday and Friday's lessons

Although it seemed that I didn't do much on Thursday, I found that experience really interesting. It was odd watching other people's interpretations of the script and how people stage it. Friday's lesson was a bit tricky for me, because I didn't know how to stage my monologue and what technique would be best. I feel that Sarah was right, learning the script would make the scene easier to stage and portray.

Disco Pigs speech/characters

I'm finding the more we read through the play, we're starting to find our own way of understanding the speech and I think this is starting to show after watching some of the pieces we did yesterday for Sarah to film. We're all starting to get a better understanding of the characters and I think once we know the lines of the units we're looking at, the characterisation will come more natrually :)

Brecht. And films

Please update on your work on BRecht, the reading, today's work and upload films.

Also, what do we think this play is about?
How should we stage it?

I had another message from Ria, she says have a look at ''Frantic assembly book of devising theatre' I think it was written by Scott Graham?! There is some good stuff in there aswell about the chair duets!!"

Ria.M 20-10-2011 'Facebook' :)

Frantic Assembly

Hey all, I just had links sent from Ria (2nd yr) about the physical work Catia and I did on Wednesday. It is from frantc assembly. Hope these are of some help!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMI0WgKe_kI
http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/9780415467605/videos.asp

Voice

Amazing display of vocal skill!

Greek song.

Disco Pigs

Now I got this working, if you haven't seen my FB message: I found a website of an opinion that explains some of the language and a summary of Disco Pigs

 http://publish.ucc.ie/scenario/2009/02/schmittkilb/05/en

Is this working yet?

Stanislavski workshops

I found today really interesting, I enjoyed the combination of yesterday's subtext lesson and Stanislavskian activities/techniques! I also enjoyed the last activity despite not knowing what to say to Alex!

in response to the Autocracy post by The Wannabe Finn

hegemony

oligarchy

heterodoxy

more to come? More to be added? Explored? Refuted?

Stanislavski Workshop

Dan & Ryan lesson

I feel this lesson has made me realised that I'm still quite shy

Disco pigs

I have really enjoyed the work so far on disco pigs. The subtext lesson i found really useful when not just reading scripts but also watching tv programmes and reading books/magazines! I have learnt that most things we do or say or read has subtext. I am really looking forward to creatingthis production and exploring different ways to do so.! :)

Disco Pigs

I genuinely didn't think that I would like disco pigs, but today has changed my view. I may just enjoy it now :) The subtext lesson was really helpful and has openend my eyes on how to read a script, without just glancing and repeating the words on the page.

Film Screening tomorrow Thursday 13th October in the bar at 4pm

Mark Ashmore Ex student at Northbrook College, graduate from the theatre arts course, is screening his debut feature film documentary 'Invisible Circus: No Dress Rehearsal' in the Northbrook theatre bar at 4pm thursday for a free screening with Q+A after, the film is about a traveling arts theatre troupe and street theatre/circus acts who take over empty buildings and bring them back to life, with no money, just passion.

 Mark was the executive producer on the film and his company future artists is now touring the film, via twitter across the world, see screening number 5 @northbrook, for trailer/dvd and vod and more info see the films website http://www.invisiblecircusfilm.com more info on Mark Ashmore here http://www.futureartists.co.uk 

Invisible Circus : No Dress Rehearsal on tour Newcastle/Worthing/Bristol/Salford

Future Artists @ Channel 4 16/11/11 *SPECIAL EVENT* tickets here 

Project Lost Generation - Changing the way Stories are told here

FUTURE ARTISTS or become part of the Co-op

Autocracy

Noun
autocracy (plural autocracies)

1. A form of government in which unlimited power is held by a single individual.

from Wiktionary.

Actually think I'm going to like Disco Pigsssss, after the work we've done today its seems interesting looking at the subtext

Disco Pigs

I'm really looking forward to working on this play, I think it will be challenge, but great. I'll try help when I can. :)

Disco Pigs sub-text pieces

I really enjoyed todays lesson. Although people had different interpretations of the sub-text, the same over all message came across with the people who were doing the same pages. Well done guys! :D

Subtext

You can see subtext in everything we do. This is something i believe we have all established here today.

Disco Pig

really looking forward to doing this play something new bring it on :)

Class

I Really loved todays lessons, learnt new shizzle guys <3 taa :) x

Alex's List of Books

Here's a short list of books that can be found in the LRC (Library) relating to Grotowski, Stanislavski and Artaud.

Grotowski - Towards A Poor Theatre (792.28)

Stanislaski - An Actor Prepares (792.028)
Creating A Role (792.028)
Building A Character (792.028)

Stanislavski: An Introducition (792.028)
Stanislavski: In Rehearsal (792.028)
Stanislavski for Beginners (792.028)

Artaud - Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty (792.015)
Artaud on Theatre (792.015)
Artaud Anthology (792.015)

Disco Pigs vs Yellow Moon

Minority vote came through. Democracy? Autocracy?
The decision has been made and we are starting to work on the script Disco Pigs by Edna Walsh.
Our first exercise after our staged reading is done in pairs. Pick any page from the script. Read through and find the subtext. Rewrite the scene as subtext and stage.
Please post your ideas on what the challenges and opportunities in working on and staging this script are.

Unit 3 beginnings!

Hello all and welcome to our new blog for unit 3 and maybe beyond.
This is a shared space for our new project where we can reflect as a company, share photos, links, ideas. It is not a replacement for Blackboard where all important course related information will still be found.
Thanks