Shakespeare pre performance test lesson

• Drama
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 1

Lets get ready to perform!

Today

                      Hour 1: Test recap                                              

            Rehearse                     

                     Perform/feedback            

Hour 2: Shakesperian insults performance                         

Warm up

Smile if you love me

Rose Red

Rose Rose Rose red

Shall I ever see you wed

I marry that I ought

And thou doth stay

thou doth = you will

Remember

• Make the themes clear - tragic love/loyalty and betrayal 
• How are you using the stage?
• Use all acting techniques: Facial expressions, body language, voice, emotions, energy, concentration.
• How will you improve on your reflection points?
  

2 dramatic moments

Why is it tragic love?

Rehearse using your reflection points

REFLECTION

Get the reflection worksheet 

Fill in the questions using your previous reflections and thinking about the following: 

Did you make the themes clear - tragic love/loyalty and betrayal

Did you use the whole stage?

Did you use all acting techniques: Facial expressions, body language, voice, emotions, energy, concentration.

How will you improve on your reflection points?

The film...

Gnomeo and Juliet

Creativity points

Extra points given if...

You use lights and sound

You have a very original story

Your whole group has a costume

Choose a character name

Choose a character name from the next slide...

Female

Juliet

Olivia

Puck

Miranda

Imogen

Helena

Emilia

Hermione

Male

Romeo

Nathaniel

Lennox

Edmund

Julius

Walter

Alexander

Orlando

Insults

Thee - person you are talking to

Thou - you

Thine - your

Wouldst - you would

Dizzy eyed bugbear

Long tongu'd gossip!

Half-faced hedge pig

Spongy pignut

Fly bitten dog fish

You Banbury cheese!

Disgusting foot licker!

Lump of foul deformity!

More ear wax than brain!

Mountain of mad flesh

Shakespearian sword fight

In pairs counting to 3... then...

Come up with 3 sword fight moves

They must all be different

You may not touch each other

Now put them together to make one sword fight - one person dies dramatically!

Performance

Now put all three together

Think of a reason why these characters hate each other

Use their name and the insult in your performance

Now rehearse!