First Theatre Arts Lesson!

Summer is over, and we've now come to this time of the year. School has started- and with it, theatre arts! The weather is finally starting to cool down in Dubai which makes outdoor performances and wearing backstage all-blacks finally possible! All of us were really looking forward to our first theatre arts lesson- but it didn't live up to everybody's expectations....

First of all, having been used to a very close group of drama students that all considered each other family, it was difficult to have to adjust to acting and sharing concepts with people that we hardly knew. I thought that it would be easily overcome, but I was uncommonly shy and unwilling to share any ideas that I had. Our stimulus was a nonsense poem (see below), and we had to create a piece of theatre that included all of the nonsense words. The point of the exercise was to interpret the meanings of the phrases by speaking them out loud and listening to how they sounded. Our group decided that the poem sounded like a dialogue between members of a family who are getting ready in the morning, and that is how we presented it. However, as we spent too much time deciding which phrase meant what, I didn't really have time to decide what character I was going to portray and ended up being a grandmother but not acting like one.

For the next lesson, I will try to organise my time better and, more importantly, come out of my shell and become the Sophie I usually am!

Love & Sunshine