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Reflecting on WTT

on December 8, 2019

Currently in our drama class, we are learning world theatre traditions.  Within this unit, we explored many different kinds of world theatre traditions for example puppets, traditional masks and traditional stories. In this post I will be comparing this three.

  • WTT story : For WTT story, we did Ramayana without using any masks.This was really hard because we have nothing to cover our face and because of this, we had to show the character’s facial expressions really clearly using all our faces and bodies.
  • WTT traditional mask: For traditional mask unit, we used two different kinds of  masks which are Indonesian traditional masks and a mask that have a specific characteristics in their facial expression. For the first class we did about masks, we used the characteristic one. This was harder than it looks because you have to use the body to be in the character since our faces are fully covered. I did “full” and it was really fun to pair up and do a performance with Hailey who was doing an old man. After doing this mask, we did Indonesian traditional masks. For this masks it was easier than the characteristic mask because our mouths were shown to the audience. We did fairy tails first and then Ramayana using this mask. When we were doing Ramayana, it was difficult to show the scenes in Tableau but it was really good to understand the rise and downs of the story. Also it was difficult to change our masks on stage.
  • WTT story with traditional puppets : For puppets, we used two different puppets which were puppets from National theatre, Indonesian traditional puppets. When we were using NT puppet, it was really interesting to make it look like the puppet is alive. We have to think how the puppets breath, move, look at something all in once. We also watched how Lion King puppets are used and made. For Indonesian puppets, it was really interesting to experience because we had to think a lot of think in one movement and it was really interesting to learn how the people play  it train. We have to move everything with one hand and also, it was hard not to make the shadow of ourselves.

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