Stopping by the woods on a snowy evening Considering questions -> Metre: AABA, BBCB, CCDC,DDDD (Iambic pentameter) -> Structure? Voice? Tone? Sublime vs Banal Apart/ a part Natural life /city life He knows he cants stay in the moment, is dragged into the lullaby but snaps out of it in the break-in rhyme (AABA) Tone […]
Academics
Bodas de Sangre
Compare the Ted Hughes and the Gwynne Edwards translations to ours . . . and to the original if you can. What differences do you see? Which is the “best” and why? The poet Ted Hughes, who translated “Blood Wedding,” observed that “Lorca cannot be Englished.”—Dwight Garner on a translation of Lorca. With College Essay’s, […]
THEATRE WOW: Voice WR1
Key Takeaway’s Voice is dependent on the body. Main muscles ; Diaphragm, pelvic floor Important to keep knees not locked. Think of sand piling at bottom of the pelvic floor, and then legs hollow, so the sand falls down into the feet. make sure jaw is loose, shoulders are loose, hips are loose. Pull belly-button […]
Practioner workshop 1: Jerzy Grotowski
If you want to create a masterpiece, you must avoid beautiful lies. This is MY EYES encapsulates the essence of Grotowski. Throughout the workshop, I found myself understanding Grotowski as someone who wanted to deal with the raw, primal, ugly and beautiful emotions humans experience on a day to day basis but hate confronting. The […]
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“The Arrangements” – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
How is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie‘s writing style reflected in this work? Firstly, I think her attention to detail, and usage of mundane objects to explore the intricacies of human relationships in the story is clear. We can see this in her focus on the floral arrangements in the story, where she uses the mention of […]
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Atlantis
My first question before reading this ‘poem’ so to speak, was how a collection of six lengthy poems could make a whole, unified body of work. While there were observable unifying factors, i.e his use of liminal space and couplets/tercets, the development of his emotions and view of the same situation through the six poems […]
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Zen Zen Zo reflection 2 (Suzuki and Butoh Work)
In this session we developed the skills learnt from the last lesson, and worked on some Butoh work as well. Firstly, we developed a new resting position, which was going from the wide neutral stance to the ground, with hands over the knees, and upper body relaxed, i.e head hanging, similar to the picture here. […]
Zen Zen Zo reflection 1 (Suzuki work)
Reflection 1 ( 26th April) We started the lesson by reviewing the basics of Tadashi Suzuki’s acting method. Since this was my first time working with Suzuki, I found a lot of this very interesting as I had not engaged with the physical side of theatre as much as I would have liked to. The […]
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Act 4 – The War
ACT 4 This act seems to be more dramatic in nature as compared to the earlier acts, resembling more of a tragedy than a comedy. You can see the idea of French pride, culture coming out in the food and the song, you can see the unifying nature of it, probably to rile up the […]
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ACT III
ACT III Ragueneau wife runs away with musketeer Cyrano talks to Roxanne, fishes for compliments, she falls for it, ego boosted De Guiche heavily tricked by Roxanne, playing a back stabbing game. Tender Passion – Place of poetry i guess Christian refuses Cyrano’s help Roxanne demanding, Cyrano speaks in Christians place, Christian and Roxanne kiss, […]