Friday, February 29, 2008

Do Fairies Have Wings?





They do now, because the IB Theatre class have made them. And the bees, and the flies, and the cockroaches! Never mind a giant tree, four garden flats, three huge table cloths, bed sheets and a load of rubbish...literally.

It's been a very steep learning curve as the students put down their books and engaged their hands and minds in creating props and set for the primary musical. This is truly an exercise in theatre as a composite art form, and we have taken help and advice from the Design Tech department and from the Art teacher, learnt from books and through trial and error, and have eventually managed to produce the required items which will allow the play to take place next week. Now we just have to erect the set, figure out the lighting, plug in the microphones and make sure the maggots make it on stage on time!

Melodrama



IB students are renowned for their melodramatic tendencies.... but this was a class where they were actually expected to develop the skills of melodramatic performance.

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Okay I realize that the text that went with the video I posted last time didn't match the video. Explanation: the 30 minute video was too big to load onto this blog... It took forever to get nowhere... Hence, I put up the smaller, shorter video of the final performance.