Arts Award

I am currently working towards the Duke of Edinburgh Arts Award formy drama at school. And as part of the award, I have to keep a diry style thing of what we do at drama club, as proof of our efforts. I'm just going to type mine up on here, and if that's not ok I cn copy and paste it into a word document!

1st May- Drama Club 6-8pm

Today at drama club, we discussed what we'll be doing performance-wise for the rest of the year. We are no longer going to be peforming at the Brigton Festval, due to the fact that we do not really have anything to show to an audience- let alone 40 minutes worth of stuff. I think everyone was agreed that it would be better to do nothing than to scrape together something that was rubbish. We're planning a performance in July, a mix of our Beckett work as well as stuff from drama club.
The first thing we had to do was to devise a piece of drama that showed the morning routine of a couple who had been married for so long that everything was done automatically, with the husband being dependent on the wife. I was with Sam, and out performance went as follows:

Alice: (As Sam walks in quickly) Morning
Sam: Morning
Alice: Paper (passes him paper as he passes)
Sam: Paper (sits down)
Alice: Toast (passes him toast)
Sam: Toast (eats)
Alice: Butter (passes him butter, then takes it back automatically as he pushes it away)
Sam: No
Alice: Orange juice (puts glass on one side of Sam, then walks past him. He drinks the orange juice as she is passing and then places it on the other side of himself. Alice proceeds to pick up the glass and wash it up)
Alice: Tea?
Sam: Tea
Alice: (She gives him is tea and proceeds to sit down, but he stands just as she is sitting, and she sits on his empty seat) Bye
Sam: Bye (He walks towards door) Bye Kids!

We could only use limited amount of speech and actions.


We then had to put together a performance of a newly married couple, and the only dialogue we could use was slogans from adverts (this should be interesting for Eric- yet more british-ism). This was much more challenging, and required a lot of thought. It was also rather disturbing in parts (Dan and Tashi's for instance, I'll never view the advert for 'Talk to Frank' in quite the same way as long as I live)! I was working with Joe and the sloans we used (In order) were:

Alice: Take a chance on a second chance Sunday
Twinnings
Ba ba ba ba ba
Joe: I'm loving it (spills his tea)
Alice: BANG and the dirt is gone!
Are you a crucnchy nutter?
It's a nine thing
Take a break
Joe: Have a kit-kat
Both: Resistance is futile
Joe: Have it your way (shouting at laptop, Alice turns around, concerned)
The future's bright!
Alice: Try something new today
They took a chance, on that second chance sunday.


We also practised throwing several juggling balls around the circle in a certain pattern, eventually so we were throwing many of them at the same time (with amusing results). Whilst doing this, we also were singing a song:

Pack your troubles in you old kit bag
And Smile, Smile, Smile
While there's a Lucifer to light your fag
Smile boy that's the style.
What's the use of worrying
It never was worthwhile
Pack your troubles in you old kit bag
And Smile, Smile, Smile

This seemed strange at first, but apparantly it is going to be used in the performace, with us throwing the juggling balls over the heads of the audience.