March 29 - Memorize all your lines for Act 3

Memorize all your lines for Act 3. We want everyone off script for the first 3 acts by this coming Thursday. You all did a great job being off script for acts 1 and 2 this week. Great job!  Practice over and over until the words flow well!

March 23 - All Lines Memorized for the First 2 Acts!

We have asked all of you to commit to having all your lines for the first 2 acts completely memorized (so you're OFF SCRIPT 🙂) by this Thursday's class! Work hard. We know you can do it!!!

We have a number of props we are hoping to start gathering. We'll create a Google doc soon that you can add to if you have things we're looking for.

You're fabulous!

Katherine and Jessica Brown

Hello fellow Shakespeareans! This Saturday from 11-1 at the Brown's house we will be having play practice! Mark it on your calendars. If you can't make it, be sure to contact me and let me know.

Since the performance will be in May, we'll only be having practice every other Saturday, but still come prepared. That means, as always, memorize, memorize, memorize!

Remember, Saturday from 11-1, at the Brown's house.
I hope to see you all there!

February 22

Memorize, memorize, memorize! Get those lines down, because this play is going to be absolutely amazing. We are so excited to see it coming together.

Also, here's a bit of joy to brighten your day.

February 15 - Date of our play determined!

Keep working on your memorizing. Have a parent or older sibling quiz you and help make sure you are pronouncing all your words correctly.

This week we'll continue blocking Act I and start blocking Act II. Come with your lines for those two acts memorized as much as you can. This means you've got hard work ahead of you, but you can do hard things!!  Wow us! During blocking last week you guys came up with some great ideas. Thank you for sharing your brilliance.

We have chosen the date for performing our play. Drum roll, please.....:) We will have an evening performance Friday April 27th and an afternoon matinee Saturday, April 28th.

This is going to be great!

Sister Brown and Jessica

February 8 - MEMORIZING

Shakespeareans, the goal is to memorize, memorize, memorize!  We are going to work on blocking Act 1 of the play this Thursday and if you know your lines well we'll have more fun and things will go faster. Make learning your lines by heart a priority.

Everyone arrive at the Martin's by 8:15 - even earlier is great!  We need all the class time we can.

We also need to start discussing our rehearsal schedule so bring your planners!

February 1 - Line Corrections, Acting, Memorizing

LINE CORRECTIONS

We needed to do some line corrections last week and since not everyone was able to be at Shakespeare here are the corrections. The words in BLUE are the changes. Please go through your script and make the changes.

page 2 line 7  your brother Oliver.

page 2 line 18 I am Orlando, the youngest...

page 3 line 11 Whither wander you Touchstone?

page 4 line 44 broke three of his opponents' ribs (crossed out the first "his")

page 6 line 97 Orlando, my liege; Duke Frederick, I am the youngest son of...

page 7 line 125 duke, Rosalind by name, and here detained

page 9 line 6 Happy is your grace Duke Senior, that can

page 9 line 9 Come Amiens, shall we go and...

page 10 line 18 I partly guess Silvius, for I have...

One new change EVERYONE still needs to make is that on page 9 it lists "First Lord and Second Lord." There is only one lord in our play so the line should now read "I cannot hear of any that did see her my lord, and the roynish clown, is also missing... (First and Second Lord's lines are now just one longer paragraph said by one lord.)

ACTING (Please spend at least 15 minutes doing this)

Have fun practicing different emotions like we did in class last week. You can do these either on your own or with your family. One of you calls out an emotion (sad, silly, confused, tired, etc.) and all of you show it on your face, then it's another person's turn.

MEMORIZING

Have you highlighted all your lines and either highlighted or boxed the lines for your speaking cue (the person's line/s right before your part)?

Have you read your lines out loud a minimum of 5 times?

Have you recorded your lines onto a recording device? Are you practicing them?

Remember Sister Maurer's advice to listen and recite with your recording when you get up in the morning and before you go to sleep.

Have your parents or siblings help you practice your lines. Think about what emotion you are showing. Make it sound interesting.