For Monday, May 13:
*Memorize the next part of the Hamlet speech COMPLETELY:
Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve, the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Email Ms. P if you have questions re: the following (npitman@tempeprep.org):
Find a partner or two over the weekend, if you were not in class today (Friday)
and get to work on your project for next week (you will not be given an extension).
The information below was distributed in class today:
~
Dramasaults ~
A.K.A. Elizabethan-Contemporary
Insult-Combat Scenes
GUIDELINES
Ø Work in
pairs or threes
Ø Remember:
SAFETY FIRST when it comes to stage
combat
Ø Language is ESSENTIAL! Really
getting your mouth around your words and enjoying the language – especially the
insults is key. You must be loud and clear enough to be understood, and try
bringing a sense of play and fun to ALL the words you use (even if you are “angry”).
Ø Your
scene may be set in modern times with contemporary themes or set in another
historic period with more traditional themes. Take a few minutes to see what
feels most appropriate for you and your partner(s).
MUSTS:
ü _____ Be
sure to use the Elizabethan insult that you “created”
ü _____ Incorporate
at least one of each type of combat move you learned:
|
-
Round-house punch
-
Slap
-
Hair Pull
ü _____
Each person in the scene must have at least four (4) lines, and up to six (6)
max.
ü _____
Lines MUST be written in iambic
pentameter (though two characters may
share a line).
ü _____
Your scene must have a premise, conflict, and a resolution, with clear-cut
characters/relationship
ü _____
Voice (projection/diction) and staging (cheating in/out, refraining from
upstaging)
ü _____
At some point in your scene, one of the characters must address the audience,
using repetition of a word three times, or by making three points, so that
he/she utilizes the “apron” stage (the current platform we now have), just like
in an Elizabethan theatre.
ü _____
“Scripts” must be TYPED and copied so that each person in the “team” has one to
work with over night. One extra copy
must be made/given to Ms. P as well, the DAY BEFORE PERFORMANCE. Scripts MUST
BE MEMORIZED.
Please
work creatively, productively and efficiently!
IAMBIC
PENTAMETER EXAMPLES
Iambic Pentameter has:
·
Ten syllables in each line
·
Five pairs of alternating unstressed and stressed syllables
·
The rhythm in each line sounds like:
ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM
ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM / ba-BUM
EX:
If mu- / -sic be
/ the food / of love, / play on
Is this / a dag-
/ -ger I / see be- / fore me?
Split
Verse/Shared Line:
Juliet: What
man art thou that thus bescreen'd by night So stumblest on my counsel?
Romeo: By a name
I know not how to tell thee who I am.
Feminine Ending/Irregular Line:
To be,
/ or not / to be: / that is / the ques- / -tion
*Also: okay to begin with a stressed rather
than an unstressed syllable, if need by –
EX:
Gallop/
apace/ you fie/ry foot/ed steeds
TIME
LINE
You will be given part of Friday, Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday’s classes to work on this, BUT YOU MUST ALSO FIND TIME
TO WORK ON THIS OUTSIDE OF SCHOOL!
*Be
sure to pick a responsible person from your pair/trio to type up the script and
get it to Ms. P by the deadline:
Script Due: Wednesday, May 15
Performance: Thursday, May 16
