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intially I believed that the 3 by 4 stage wouldn't allow for a production quality as great as if we were to perform on a normal stage. i didn't understsnd why anyone might want to perform on that type of stage with the lack of space to be creative with

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Non-naturalistic theater uses techniques that doesn't happen in real life to portray a story

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when and where did non-naturalistic originate from

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when and where did non-naturalistic originate from

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non-naturalisitc the theather can be traced all the way back to 1920 germany from Bertolt Brecht's epic theatre but the first complete non-naturalistic perfomances are from polish perfomer Jerzy Grotowski's Poor Theatre in opole, poland.

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mind map

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this lessons main purpose was to introduce the class to a variety of stages that the students could take advantage of to make their play better. the stages introduced were the round and traverse stages

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the teacher showed us multiple examples of how this stage could be taken advantage of, as the narrow nature of the stage allowed it to gather more audience intimacy aswell as the audience being in full view of the actors body. the stage though can limit the audiences ability to view the actors face.

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the round stage allows for a more thorough view of the perfomance with the audience always having a view of the actors aswell as perserving some of the intimacy in the catwalk stage, but actors will find it difficult to set up props that dosen't block the audience view aswell as having smooth transitions as the audience will always be watching the performance

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the class was split into groups, with the task of perfoming a extract of (CIDN), using one of the stage types

my group chose the traverse stage, believing that it was easier for the audience to view the perfomance. the houses was placed to the side and close to the audience so that would have a great view and chose to place the lighting behind the houses to create an emphasis on the conversation

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we were introduced to the concept of a smaller 3x4 stage which relies heavily on creativity, transitions and facial expressions to create a funny and enjoyable play that can compensate for the lack of space given

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the class was once again split into groups and was allowed to come up with a play that was related to the theme car chase and in a 3x4 stage

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my group elected to have a police chase as our concept, we found it rather hard to fully develop our play in the time we were given so we had to cut down on some few details, there were a few problems we faced throughout the trials with the main ones being that the small space made it really hard for us to transition from scene to scene. aside from that my team also struggled to communicate to each other in the beggining which hindered our progress. overall though I believe that the process itself was very helpful as we experimented with new techniques and even question perception

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we were introduced to multiple techniques that are related and used in non naturalistic performances like, puppets, freeze frames, multimedia ect....

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Feedback:
- Instead of being in a straight line behind Christopher, we can give the effect that the information is engulfing him by surrounding him instead.

- Each person can represent Christopher's feeling and emotions.

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multimedia is projecting a scene or image to create a background and set the scene in a particular area. it's main purpose is to allow actors to set the scene without having to use props in a non-naturalistic setting

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freeze frames are used to create atmosphere and to communicate a large amount of acting in a small time frame (in the setting) or could be used to represent sophisticated ideas like thoughts, emotions or anything of a similiar caliber

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Multi Rolling is used so that a small crew of actors can efficently portray a wide variety of characters. this technique needs actors skilled in facial expressions and body language to make sure that the audience can identify the change in character

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Ms nicole told us about the task at hand and introduced us to the extract of (CIDN) that we're going to focus on. after that she told us to split into groups of 3 then paired the groups together to create a group of 6

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Students will use non naturlistic performance ideas to stage the thinking of Christopher from A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime

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Global Context: Personal and cultural expression

Exploration to Develop:

Creation

Key Concepts: Communication

Related Concepts: Interpretation

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Interpretation is communicated through artistic expression

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Factual Question: What is non-naturalistic theatre?

Conceptual Question: What are the benefits of having a "blended" approach of Naturalistic and Non-Naturalistic styles

Debatable Question: Is it possible to have a direct page-to-stage adaptation of the Curious Incident of the dog in the Nighttime?

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Social

II. Collaboration skills

Working effectively with others

Delegate and share responsibility for decision-making

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our team chose to create a comedy-action themed performance that features ninjas. the play took advantage of freeze frames, to symbolize a flashback in time. our play featured many side characters, so we had to utilize multi-rolling to fill in all of the roles. the play was recoreded in doors so we used multi-media to estabilish a setting and atmosphere. overall I enjoyed making the play and I think we really did a good job utilizing non-naturalistic techniques, but I think we could have done better with the transitions, as well as the fighting scenes becuase we struggled to create a emersive atmosphere during those parts.
feedback:
make the fighting scenes more realistic

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To inspire humour and creativity through the plays/performaces by experimenting with unusuals ways to portray a scene

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The play itself was quite rushed and we didn't do great at communicating with eachother. the scene wasn't very well rehearshed so we didn't well coordinating on stage. aside from that the single file technique we used created emphasis on each word he was saying but failed to create an overwhelming atmosphere needed for the scene. we could have also made the multi-rolling used in the play more obvious as well as the fictional props. the play was lacking in sound effects aswell

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Bertolt Brecht who was born into a german family is seen as one of the most infleuncel people that ever graced theathre. him and many others were considered to be the pillars to the foundation of non-naturalistic theathre. He believed that the audience should stay logical and be able to analyse his work at any time, so he implemented techniques that would break the viewers immersion in the play by reminding them that this was fictional. these techniques included, Breaking the forth wall, freeze frames, multi-media, narration, non-linear timeline etc...

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- add more evidence & reflection
- Create and introduction
- Get a better understanding of the techniques

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most of my feedback consisted of the same things, primarily that I don't have enough evidence, missing information and a lack of videos. the positive feedback would be that I had good info for non-naturalistic styles and lables. from the feedback I have made a to do list, that allows me to adress long overdue issues. for example having no introduction to my padlet as well as minimal information. I have also tried to understand the topic a bit more, so I can write more detailed analysis of the work I have done.

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I think personally, that we did really well to increase the amount of communication and coordination in our group and this lead to us solving multiple issues that plauged our original idea. we improved on the volume and movements in the scene with the voices to create a more hectic atmosphere. aside from that we also used a few techniques that we learned from the 3x4 stage and I enjoyed the way we visualised christophers hallucination of his dad by making it seem that christopher was talking to nobody. I think we could improve even more if we used techniques such as freeze frames or pratice with a bit more multi-media to give the play more depth.

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Well, I had a great amount of fun making the play and experimenting with my team. I think we did really nice on the hallucinations part and the ending I think was very dramatic compared to the other plays. I think we could have done better if we practiced with our multi-media while we were praticing our play but it was already occupied by another team. I personally also got a case of stage fright and fumbled a few of my lines so that was pretty embarrasing

we made multiple changes to our play from the beggining, at first for the voices scene we wanted christopher to try to get out from the circle but eventually elected against it as it made it hard for the audience to fully see the play. we also changed up the police part so that they would be facing sideways for a better viewing experience.