Drama: Daydreams and nightmares

The issue we were set to explore in the lessons was reveryings and nightmares. I enjoyed doing this report because it allows you to act out scenes that are not real and what commonplace people think about in their e genuinelyday life. It also allows you to let loose your own cerebrations. I think that nightmare chair is a very effective way of putting crossways to the audience what has happened during the course of the assemble.We started the topic absent with nightmare chair. In groups of sextuplet we had to call up a con with the second scene as nightmare chair. Our group set up it very hard to think of a nightmare to do. So we terminate up with our story being about a boy called scalawag, who dared his friend, Paul, to paseo across the railway track. However while Paul was walk of lifeing foul a train crushed him. This meant that Jack, who dared his friend, was having the nightmare. Jack had to sit in the center and every wiz else in a circle around him. We were chanting things like You shouldnt bring forth done that, you killed my best friend and you killed my son.We hence had to develop our plays so that they had the beginning of the story, and then the nightmare chair, and then the end of the story. We had to stimulate a monologue at the beginning of the story, but it could not tell the whole story. I constitute that making up the beginning and the end was harder to find up then the nightmares was. This was probably because we had the middle of the play and had to work around that.We then began the daydream secern of the topic. We started off by involveing a few pages of a play, Ernies Great Hallucinations. This play was about a boy who used to daydream a lot however in his hallucinations they actual came true. The part we read was when Ernie and his Auntie whitethorn had gone to a fair, and the go to see a boxing match. The boxer want to win loses and the winner challenges anyone from the audience to go and fight him. No one fr om the audience goes so Auntie May goes in. thats when Ernie starts to daydream that his Auntie breaks the world unofficial champion and she does. We got to read the play once and then had to make our own interpretation of it from memory. This helped us to conk out us an idea of how we could do our undermentioned task.In different groups of six we had to make up our own versions of Ernies hallucinations. We had two choice of how to do our plays. We could both retain the daydream presume real life or bonnie take on it as a normal daydream. We chose to fork over the daydream affect real life. The play was about a young lady called Edwina who wanted to become a super instance. One day she was in her maths sort out and she started to daydream about being a world famous model and winning an award for being the worlds most beautiful model. Then the next day at school teacher asks for Edwinas homework and tells him she did not do it because she was modelling we then realise tha t her daydream was not actually a dream but did actually happened. When we first started doing the play no one liked it.NIGHTMARE CHAIR.In the nightmare chair play I did not have a very big part. I was the genus Passer at the railway station. When Paul gets crushed I offer Jack my mobile to call the ambulance. When Jack is having a nightmare I walk around him verbalism you shouldnt have done that. My piece sight that the boys should have had more sense than to play near the railway tracks. She was always facial expression up from her paper as she thought they were up to no solid whish they were.When I offered Jack my phone I had to make my part sound panicky and had to rush my words to memorialise that she was thinking pronto about what to do next. When doing the nightmare chair I had to make my theatrical role sound flat and cold, so that it sounded like we were all blaming Jack for cleaning Paul.I think my performance as an private could have been modify by me learning my words correctly and knowing when and how to say them. I think I could have also amend my performance by making my actions clear and confident, because I was not sure what I should have been doing all the time. As a group our performance could have been improved by making sure everyone knew exactly what they were saying and when they should be saying it, so that we did not have so many pauses. We have do our actions more confident.DAYDREAMS.In our play about Ernies hallucinations I played the part of Eddie Edwards. I was the boxer that lost. My character Eddie was a boxer and probably thought of himself as a tough and very good boxer. However he was not because he got knock out during the first round.In this play I did not have to speak, so I did not have to change my voice to suit the part I was playing. However I was brinyly acting, so my actions had to good. I had to keep my hands in a tight ball, and close to my head. I also have my back slimly bent in order to give the af fect that I was boxing.For our main play I played the part of a clever girl in Edwinas class, and I was a person watching Edwinas fashion show. My character in Edwina s class always had her hand up to wait on a question. She was a very clever and liked to show off she was not a very interesting person.As a microscopic girl in Edwinas class I had to make my voice hi pitched and sound child like. When I has to recite my two measure table I had to make my voice quite loud and make my mouth movement bigger like a young girls would. As the person watching the fashion show I did not have to say much. My actions as the little girl had to be different too. When I was sitting down I hard to sit up straightforward and place my hand straight up in the air when a question was asked. When I was playing the person watching the fashion show I had try to act posh. I tried to put this across when I clapped at Edwina. I had to clap very delicately and with my tips of my fingers. devising my voice louder and not being so self-conscience could have improved my individual performance. I could have also made my actions more precise and confident. I think everyone learning their lines so they do not stutter and resign long pauses could have improved the whole groups performance.CONCLUSION.When we were first trying to make up the play no one really like it, and we had a lot of problems acting it. No one could put in the sudor to make the play look and sound good, but after we listened to everyones ideas and thought of better ways to end it I think we made a very well acted performance.