https://padlet.com/elliew218/q4hljknfs7yu rehearsal process and evaluation en-us 2017-06-23 10:15:17 UTC 2025-12-23 05:52:05 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Rocket.png elliew218 https://padlet.com/elliew218/q4hljknfs7yu/wish/177285354 Siobhan is Christopher teacher and mentor and has been since he was twelve and one of the only people Christopher trusts. She is seen to be very compassionate and kind. Christopher trust her because she understands his behavior and is able to explain things to Christopher in way he understand. In the play Christopher often imagine Siobhan in moment of need and she helps him find a solution to the situation he is in, this can be seen the the train station scene when Christopher gets lost he imagines what Siobhan would do and she appears and helps him to find a way out. She want to support Christopher but he is also hesitant about what he's doing and wants him to be safe 

Character descriptions:

Age: early 30s to 40s 
Relationship status: married 
Children:2 
Traits: intelligent, caring and patient 

]]> 2017-06-23 10:25:08 UTC https://padlet.com/elliew218/q4hljknfs7yu/wish/177285354 elliew218 https://padlet.com/elliew218/q4hljknfs7yu/wish/177286322 The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime follows the journey of 15 year old Christopher Boone, who is extremely talented at maths and a keen mind for investigating. The play starts with Christopher find a dead dog in the garden of his neighbor, Mrs shears. Despite all the warnings from his farther not to become involved, Christopher decided to investigate the death of the dog. He also discovers that his mother is not dead as his farther told him, but alive and well and living I London, he also found out that it was his farther that killed the dog. 

Christopher believes that his farther is a murderer and that he's not safe with him so he bravely ventures to London to live with his mother who welcomes him happily. However Christopher has a lot of difficulties settling in and decides to return home to Swindon to take his A level maths exam. The play ends with him passing the exam and with his new belief that he can do anything that he sets his mind to]]> 2017-06-23 10:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/elliew218/q4hljknfs7yu/wish/177286322 elliew218 https://padlet.com/elliew218/q4hljknfs7yu/wish/177310391 The themes are extremely important in curious incident and often run throughout the whole play, some of the themes I found were : 

Truth: Christopher is obsessed with the truth and won't rest till he knows it,He makes a point of always telling the truth.

Fear: Christopher has to over come a lot of his fears throughout the play to get to find out or get to what he wants 

Love: Christopher doesn't really understand love or why it exists but the love form a farther to his son is clear throughout the show 

Isolation: Christopher like to be on his own and like to remain detached from other people, isolation theme also run into his fear of people which is another theme of the show ]]> 2017-06-23 16:34:57 UTC https://padlet.com/elliew218/q4hljknfs7yu/wish/177310391 elliew218 https://padlet.com/elliew218/q4hljknfs7yu/wish/177317636 For this piece we were able to chose what segments of the script we wanted to use and we were able to build our show around that, this meant we were able to take more ownership of the show and were able to make to flow and move the way that we wanted to. One of the biggest issues in our class has always been attendance, with a show like curious if very difficult to rehearse when people are Adsense from lesson because we are having to often build shows around people who aren't there. This also meant that when they returned they didn't know what they were doing and took up a lot of rehearsal time catching up. 

One of the issue I came across was that sometimes soihan would become the narrator and address the audience instead of the other actors, this was struggle for me because it was hard for me to learn my cues when some of my lines come out of nowhere within the show, this was however something I enjoyed learning to do and getting a better experience with breaking the forth wall. 

For soihan I wanted to make sure that she very natural in the way she acted,this was because curious is a very abstract piece and soihan is the reader entrance to the story so there needed to be a level of normality to her. I didn't however wanted to make her boring, this meant I needed to give her own quirks to help add and build to her character. During this process I think I was able to improve the way that I use my movement and voice to portray a character, and was able to use to technique to build on other piece have done.

I think during this process even with the issues with attendance all the actors were able to create and build strong performances that were interesting and fun to watch, one person in particular who came out of her shell was gabby, who is very soft spoken the majority of the time, during this process she was able to build as an Actor and was able to portray multiple part with in the show and was able to play a very firece Mrs shears.  

One note I got from the director was that I needed to not be afraid of making soihan bigger and more loud, although I agreed I was being too soft spoken I didn't want to take away from soihan gentleness however after thinking about it I realised that it was important to relay the story in a exciting way and my voice needed to do that , this meant in certain part my voice needed to be bigger to help get this message across.  
 
While rehearsing curious there were certain things that we tried that we realised didn't work for example, we wanted to at one point lift one of the actor playing Christopher into the air while he gave a speech about space and using this lift we would give the impression of him flying. Although we workshop this idea throughly and really like it we realised that there wasn't a clean way of executing it with the number of actor we had and with the extract we were using.

For this piece we followed the guidance of the original play and kept the cast on stage the entire time, this was really useful as curious is very fast paced and everyone being on stage meant that we were able to keep the speed up while still making it look clean and stylised. 

Personally I see soihan as another mother figure to Christopher. I Believe that Christopher while think his mother was dead saw soihan as a mother figure to. Given this idea I wanted to make sure I gave the impression of a parental figure while the still making it clear that I was Christopher teacher and not his mother. some of my own contributions to the piece were able a certain level of fear to soihan, I wanted to make it clear that soihan cares very much about Christopher but knows that he is wise beyond his years and should not be underestimated, she not afraid of Christopher but she afraid of the terrible his actions might get him into.]]> 2017-06-23 18:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/elliew218/q4hljknfs7yu/wish/177317636 elliew218 https://padlet.com/elliew218/q4hljknfs7yu/wish/177319344 I think that overall I was able to create a interesting performance and was able to give more layers to soihan then I had thought I could have. I think that one of my main strengths was being able to stay focus during the entire performance and being able to react well off my fellow actor who in turn gave brilliant performances, I think one of my biggest weaknesses was my confidence, for some reason when we came to actually performing the pressure suddenly hit and made me stumble a lot of my lines which frustrated because that never happens to me when I'm performing and if it does I'm able to record quickly. One of the reason I thought this was that once I started to mess up lines I couldn't stop and given that I knew that I knew my lines effected me even more. 

I feel like all my performances in dress rehearsal were so my more effective and engaging than the one in front of an actual audience, when in the dress run I was able to think about what I was doing and what I needed to do next and my lines came a lot more naturally to me, and then once we had an audience my brain suddenly would not let me process all the things I needed to do and do believe it effect my performance a lot. 

I think personally I needed to recap more of the things I was doing within the show to make sure I was 100% confident on what needed to do and that I completely focused on what was happening. I really think however that even with my slip up the rest of the actor put on a truely brilliant show and were able to deliverer performances that were really moving and fascinating to watch. Each actor interpreted their character in there own way and it was great to see what they all did with there performance. 

As a whole I throughout enjoyed curious incident of the dog in the night time and I really Believe I learnt a lot from performing it and being able to see the stage show itself really help to focus myself on what needed to do in my own performance as well. Overwall this was a really enjoyable unit and something that I think really help to bond are class together. ]]> 2017-06-23 19:25:36 UTC https://padlet.com/elliew218/q4hljknfs7yu/wish/177319344