1st lesson: In our first lesson last week we were given the simple task of maintaining eye contact with one other person from the group, without fidgeting or doing anything. Although the task was simple enough, I did actually find it

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25/11/14 Today we started the lesson with an activity based on eye contact. It was fairly straightforward, all you had to do was look at someone else straight in the eyes with your face and body in neutral. However we found

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What a week! We finished off the week before by creating Acid Tests, where you record your scorch moments from a performance. We did ours to Curious Incident: The circle in the middle is the face that Christopher draws at the

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Acid Test Response To Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime An acid tests show scorched moments of a performance. I decided to have my acid test in the shape of a circle to represent the face which was always projected onto

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What is Surrealism?  a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature which sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images. The fist thing we were given to do was look at

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This week we used 3 different types of techniques to write up and respond to a piece of theatre:  using TEAM to write on post it notes. using MOVEMENT to express an emotion. using a DIAGRAM to link up director,

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We had the task of watching an interview between the playwright, director and main actor of Curious Incident. It was very interesting to watch and learn about how everything came together as we watched this production in London. After watching

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This weeks we worked of the three different ways used to produce a response to the three different theatre performances we had seen while on TAPS/in London. Charlie and the Chocolate factory, Electra and (for me) The woman in Black. Using

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This week in drama we learnt all about directing and directors notebooks. On Friday a director called Helen Leblique came into school to talk to us about what being a director means and her steps on how to successfully direct.

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Remember Helen Leblique from the Royal Shakespeare Company that I said I worked with in TAPS? She came to our school to talk us through how she approaches the directors notebook as she is a trained professional director. We got to

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