How our play is progressing

Okey doke - now that I have Vineblogs figured out I can get started. The main thing that we’re focusing on at the moment in theatre are our plays based on the Greek theatre structure. I think considering that it’s one of our first plays that we’ve done in class with such a specific structure we’ve done pretty well but it would have been good had we been a little bit more prepared. Hopefully all will turn out good for the performance tomorrow.

My role in our production - I feel that I am being one of the leaders in the group and I cant tell whether that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Sometimes I feel that if someone doesnt take control a little bit we wont really get anywhere in our play, but then sometimes I find myself beign too controlling and I am unsure if it is that I am not letting others have a go or that they dont want to have a go. Occasionally if we have a session we will just sit there while everyone does there own thing, and by doing that we dont get anywhere. There are defiantely others in our group who are inputting heaps as well and thats always good. I hope that if anyone feels that those who are kind of directing the play are being annoying they’ll tell us. I am possibly being paranoid though.

How our play was made - I think if we would have sat down and concentrated on working out exactly what the plot of our play would be it would benefit us a lot because we would not push ourselves into a corner in terms of not knowing what to do next. We found ourselves in that situation a little bit in the making of our play but not to such a high extent. We focused a lot on creating the prologue at the beginning of the play which is to the song ‘Do you believe in magic’ and spent quite a bit of our working time on that. A lot of the play isnt scripted and we rely on our knowledge and recollection to make the plot clear, so I just home we can remember all of our blocking and queues that we originally made.

I hope that ….
-we can always keep in mind the structure of Greek theatre, particularly never to get carried away in modern theatre and always to remember to be over-dramatic with all our actions.
-we can constantly be aware of the next scene or the next sequence of actions that the chorus have to do together - basically everything that we have rehearsed.

I can see the play turning out well though. Even though it may be an unfamiliar genre of theatre that we’re entering, as we go further into our production process I think we’ll pick up more things that distinguish the Greek theatre style and it’ll be a great performance!
And in case any of those Dreamgods are reading this, to clarify, I do not want to be a Dreamgod and the fact that our original song ‘Dreamgods’ appears in our play is completely coincidental.