Old & New

These past few days have been filled with assignment after assignment, or though it seems. On Monday and Wednesday, I finished introducing my class to the work of Harold Clurman. He brought something a little different to the table, at least with regards to our past expert, Uta Hagen. With his directorial background, Clurman grounds much of his work in what Stanislavski had set forth. Referring to Stanislavski's teachings as "The Method", Clurman adds his own experience with directing new plays. For this reason, Clurman's work is limited as much of his protocol only applies when one has the opportunity to direct an entirely new play. Most often, productions are simply done with plays that have been around for quite a while. Upon completing all our reports, we then moved back focusing upon the various IB tasks. We've now read and critiqued two examples of the Research Investigation. Simultaneously we have been assigned to write three monologues based on some stimulus from the room. The first will be performed the following Monday. As you may remember, I chose a knight's mask and would use that to create the story of an all too adventurous girl who got too many scrapes and scratches. And so, her mother has now armed her with this knight's mask from her younger brother's Halloween costume to at least protect her daughter's head. From then on, I wanted to take the character to the opposite spectrum by developing her sense of mysophobia, or more vernacularly known as a "germaphobe". Well that's what I've developed so far, better get to work. FYI, just began work on the practical performance proposal. Re-writing my research investigation questions as well, as we all failed miserably.