All right, second class down and Drama is pretty much
becoming my favorite class. We
started off with our warm up that included doing some physical and vocal
stretching. Nothing especially
awesome happened during the stretching; I’m still as flexible as I was on
Monday. The vocal exercises seem
to bring everyone out of their shell and bring us all together. I’ve never tried to put my face in a
tea cup, but now I can say that it’s probably one of the toughest things I’ve
ever tried to do… considering the fact that the tea cup was just my hand and I
was imagining the whole thing. Our
second vocal exercise involved us sticking our tongues and counting to five,
but it was more like mumble, mumble, mumble, mum, mu, and mumble.
To
get us moving, Jeremy made us swim around the room and wait for his
instructions. This exercise was a
mixture of: ABC’s, 123’s and Captain on Deck. My notes say it included Velciraption, but I honestly don’t
remember what that is. My bad. Or, it might not be my bad as we never
actually got to that and then I’m terribly sorry for not playing complete
attention and for not getting this blog up sooner. (I just checked on someone else’s blog…. And it’s not my
bad)
Driving
the Bus deserves it’s own paragraph.
It was a very enlightening game and it managed to prove that the problem
with the world is a lack of communication. First we got into two circles, one inside of the other. The person in the outer circle became
the driver and the person in the inner circle became the bus. The buses had to close their eyes while
the driver’s had to perform simple movements, like tapping constantly on their
head and shoulders or placing a palm on their back, to get the buses to
move. The drivers had to maneuver
the buses across the room and then back without crashing into any other buses. The first run went pretty smoothly, I
think, as I don’t remember any huge crashes, but the second run was a different
story. The buses had to join
together to create a bus made up of three people and one driver. What does one driver + three sets of
closed eyes + some majorly delayed reaction time =? TWO MAJOR COLLISIONS!
Don’t worry though; no students were harmed during the course of the
second Drama 101 class.
The
next stop on the Drama roller coaster was Classroom 1115 and you know what that
means: POWER POINT! In this little
lecture we talked about the history of theatre and its Greek, Roman and Italian
connections. I took Classics 110
last year, so I already knew about Greece and Rome, so that, coupled with my
inability to take notes, lead to this picture:
If you look closely, I do actually have some important words
from the power point, so I think that it’s actually a step up from the usual. After that, we talked a bit about these
wonderful blogs and how to set them up and what they need to include. You may notice that there is nothing
about the blogs in the above picture, so yes, I many have zoned out just a bit.
We
got back into the black box and started a neat activity called
Picturization. We were all sorted
into groups of four or five and then preceded to tell each other about embarrassing
stories about people or ourselves.
My group didn’t get to perform, but hopefully we still remember how to
party…… :P
And
so, the second drama class came to a close. I think I remember nearly everyone’s names and it’s pretty
awesome how we’re all slowly realizing that there is a method behind the
madness that is Jeremy.
Catch you next week,
Cynthia
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