Theatre Sports

We have been practicing many things so far to get ready for Theatre Sports, but i'm not really sure whether its going to be all taht helpful if we dont start supporting each other as a team and it also wont work if some of us dont start becoming more optimistic. There are a few people on our team who seem to have no positive input really, but who also dont provide any help with making it an easier/better time. They seem to complain quite a bit and say, "that's stupid" under their breath but then dont give any help or any fresher ideas. But i dont know, thats just what I have noticed, and i definitely could be wrong.

Other than that issue i think were moving along a bit more than before, because I think were more comfortable with making things more physical, but were still not there yet. We just have to work on being more spontaneous and just using whatver just pops into our head at the second it pops. We should also be more willing to take our own idea in a different direction if that is where the plot seems to be going.

So far my two most favorite games are props and also foreign film, especially when I am the translator. i like being the translator because that means i can take the scene in whatever direction i want, i have more control. Still, i also dont mind being the actor because then I dont have any control and its basically up to the translator to make the scene interesting, which takes off a lot of the pressure. So there are plusses and minuses to being whichever. As for "commercial break" i think I have to work on that a bit. i can easily come up with two totally different objects or uses (which is what most people seem to do) but then finding a small way to connect the two is the problem.

Altogether though i think our team is definitely coming along and will do a pretty good job at theatre sports.

Oh, and another issue is our cheer and group name. Like many other people on our team i think the name and cheer doesnt seem to be so funny and random anymore, it jsut seems a bit....dum. Its not funny its just like "ok this is stupid, what the heck were they thinking?". Its like someone put on some hideous colored dress and thought "ok, i can work this, it can be different, in good way" but then while walking down the street and looking into a window of a store they think "holy crap what was i thinking? i look embarassing!". So yeah, thats just my personal take on our name and cheer. But its too late now, so i think the best thing to do is just work that dress (while being in a figurative mood i chose to keep that analogy) and totally embarass myself and laugh about it later.

Theatre Sports Action Plan!!!

Here it is:...

Action Plan for Theatre Sports
Day 1:
· Keith Johnstone
· There are different teams and within each team everyone loves each other but while onstage there is:
o Mockery, hate, animosity, and then grudging acceptance

Day 2:
· Researched Keith Johnstone:
o Did the opposite of what he was taught
o Play Reader
o Performers were spontaneous
o Canada
o Status transactions
§ Lots of comic potential
· Human nature
o Royal Court Theatre
o Loose Moose
o Improv. Maestro
o Invented Theatre Sports, ETC
· Status
o The worth of someone/something (in comparison to someone else)
o Ex:
§ Salesperson-buyer
§ Doctor-nurse
§ School teacher-student

Day 3:
· Find a cheer/name of group
o Decided on Spider Pig Vs. the Seven Sins of Staggering Stupidity
§ Envy-Maria
§ Gluttony-Jordan
§ Lust- Laura (me)
§ Pride-Ezgi
§ Greed- Tasha
§ Sloth- Stacy
§ Wrath- Nick
o Costume:
§ All black with different color wigs
o Mascot:
§ Ezgi’s pig
o Cheer:
§ Spider Pig spider pig does whatever a spider pig does, can he swing from a web? No he cant, cause hes a pig. OH hes a spider pig…..sinfulllll

Day 4:
· Talked about layout:
o Intro:
§ Grade 9:
§ Grade 10:
§ DP1
§ DP2
§ ETC
o Die Game
§ With team captains
o Rolly Role
o Props
§ For scenes trying not to laugh, make it people who know each other
o Writers block
o Song song
o Freeze tag

Day 5:
· My costume:
o Black top with lace edges
o Black short skirt
o Black leggings or tights
o Red strappy heels
o Red wig

Day 6:
· Learn about the Action Plan
o Before each project you create one
o From the start till after the deadline
o Action planning, executing, and reflecting

Day 7(currently):
· Practice the cheer in our costumes
· Practice theatre games

Day 8:
· Another dress rehearsal
· Possibly practice with other teams, to get an idea of what to do

Deadline:
· Arrive early to get into costumes, warm up
· Start practicing a bit, before audience starts coming in
· Get introduced, say cheer
· Do THEATRE SPORTS!!!!
· Help clean-up
· Put away costumes, go home
· Or (if possible) have a little after-party with cast….
Day 1 (after deadline):
· Give feedback on how it went
· Give feedback on what we did well/what we did wrong

picture of our feet

During one of the warm-up games we all had to stick our feet into the middle of the circle. and here is the picture of it. I believe it goes in order like this :

1. Nicks tennis shoe

2. Stacy's flat

3. My flat

4. Mr. Sarstedt's...sneaker?

5. Ezgi's sneaker

6. Tasha's flat

7. Jordan's all star converse

8. Maria's flat....which is exactly like mine.

Well this is my first post, all my journal reflections i have written down but I promise Mr. Sarstedt that I will take pictures of all my journals and post them on this...blog.