Brothers Grimm: Schedule 16/4/2014

In our first lesson for Brothers Grimm, we went through our performance date which was June 19th. But this had to be changed because there are exams this week and there may be exams in our performance space so we have put the date back to 26th June. This gives us more time for rehearsals since we hadn't started at this point.

We then spoke about our performance space and whether we should go to the primary school to perform or if they would come here. There were only 5 of us within this lesson as everyone else was in an exam. We didn't come to a conclusion on this though so hopefully we can decide this on a later date when everyone is there. 

I then picked out all of the dates which are before the performance and wrote them up on the board. We figured out how many lessons we had left which are about 18 all together because we have two lessons on a Thursday and Friday. 

 I then moved on from writing up the dates and we decided what lessons we would do what plays in. I wrote up each play and then assigned them to each day and lesson.

They go as:

22nd May - Period 1 - IRON HANS
22nd May - Period 5 - LADY AND THE LION

23rd May - Period 1 - HANSEL AND GRETEL
23rd May - Period 3 - ASHPUTTEL

5th June - Period 1 - IRON HANS
5th June - Period 5 - LADY AND THE LION

6th June - Period 1 - HANSEL AND GRETEL
6th June -Period 5 - LADY AND THE LION

Each week repeats like this.

On our Monday lessons on these dates we are going to have the Historical Context lessons but during these lessons we will have one on one with our teacher to sort out all of our paperwork for our units. 

After this Sophie and I explained our idea as directors for Hansel and Gretel. Although these weren't accepted which then caused a 'heated discussion' with our teacher and everything quickly became awkward and silent. 

The next lesson Sophie and I started to direct Hansel and Gretel and talk about the forest scenes to do when everyone else would come back from their exam. We spoke about Snow White and The Huntsman when she walked through the woods and the trees would trip her over. This was the idea we wanted whilst she went through the woods. 

We then spoke about when Hansel and Gretel are left in the woods alone, the trees would move around them and enclose them but when they wake up the trees would suddenly move away. We also came up with when the bread crumbs are eaten, they will walk through the woods but the trees will move and make a maze and block off routes. The trees will be everyone else who aren't main characters in Hansel and Gretel. 

Once everyone else returned from their exam we put our idea into play but Sophie didn't want to direct so I done it on my own with other peoples help who were there when we discussed the idea. 

We went from when Hansel and Gretel left the house and moved into the woods with their parents. The trees would nudge us as we walked past the first time but only slightly. On the second time when we are with our parents the trees would move closer to us when we aren't looking. 

We also created a wall with everyone else in the class where Hansel and Gretel are listening to their step mother and father talk about leaving them in the woods. 

Molly came up with a new staging idea since transverse apparently wouldn't work. This was the staging idea. 

We will have the audience on a diagonal so they aren't facing each other and can see everything that is going on around them. This staging also works for the other plays as well. 

I feel like this was a successful lesson as we were further ahead in this play than any of the others which we hadn't started. 

Although a weakness of this lesson was that we weren't very focused because of the last lesson with an argument. We didn't really want to work and didn't like the idea of changing what we wanted. But we carried on anyway, well, I carried on and directed everyone. Molly did help me as I couldn't explain the forest scenes properly.