WORKSHOP

                                                       

WORKSHOPS

• They're generally small, usually from 6 to 15 participants, allowing everyone some personal attention and the chance to be heard.
• They're often designed for people who are working together, or working in the same field.
• They're conducted by people who have real experience in the subject under discussion.
• They're often participatory, i.e. participants are active, both in that they influence the direction of the workshop and also in that they have a chance to practice the techniques, skills, etc. that are under discussion.
   

• They're informal; there's a good deal of discussion in addition to participation, rather than just a teacher presenting material to be absorbed by attentive students.
• They're time limited, often to a single session, although some may involve multiple sessions over a period of time (e.g. once a week for four weeks, or two full-day sessions over a weekend).
• They're self-contained. Although a workshop may end with handouts and suggestions for further reading or study for those who are interested, the presentation is generally meant to stand on its own, unlike a course, which depends on large amounts of reading and other projects (papers, presentations) in addition to classroom activities.
   

• A workshop provides a way to create an intensive educational experience in a short amount of time, when the time for a more comprehensive effort may not be available. Participants may be working, they may be too far apart to gather together regularly, or may simply be unwilling to commit large amounts of time. A workshop can introduce a new concept, spurring participants to investigate it further on their own, or can demonstrate and encourage the practice of actual methods.
• It's a great way to teach hands-on skills because it offers participants a chance to try out new methods and fail in a safe situation. Failure is often the best teacher, and failure in this instance doesn't carry a cost. At the same time, feedback, from both the presenter and peers in the group, helps a participant understand what she can do to avoid failure in a real situation.
• A workshop is a way for someone to pass on to colleagues ideas and methods that he has developed or finds important. Teaching a graduate course may not be possible, but he may be able to reach large numbers of people by conducting workshops in various situations.
• Especially for people who work together, a workshop can help to create a sense of community or common purpose among its participants.

DEVISING PERFORMANCE AND WORKSHOP

I really enjoyed our devised performance. I reckon that if we had worked a little bit harder, the whole performance would have been performed really well. I believe that we didn't rehearse enough for the play to turn out the way we want it to be. While rehearsing in classes, everything would go really well, and everyone would share their ideas and the way they wanted to perform, because its their role and they can do pretty much whatever they want and add whatever line they feel comfortable with, but of course it has to be about the play and make sense into it.

The whole devised play, turned out well but I still don't believe that, that was the best of us. We needed more rehearsals. Another thing, during each rehearsal, we would always miss someone, which it leads us to not focusing as we meant to be because, one of us is missing, and we would sit and write ideas down. Which, if everyone was there, we would of been acting instead and that would have been much better. The thing that I really enjoyed about my play was, at the end of the play, we got the whole audience evolved because our play is about murder and detectives, which at the end 'Mary' dies, and it doesn't really show it in the play. Therefore the audience had to pick one of us, and see who was the actual killer. In the play 'Stephanie'. The way she killed 'Mary' was during my scene The Captain and Mary talk, Stephanie enters with coffee, and she had put a death pill into her coffee which killed Mary. This is really hard for the audience to see because they can not see the pill, they only see, when she gives the coffee to Mary (Dulce).

In the beginning of the play, I play as a 'bad' guys, only to confuse the audience and get them thinking that I may be the actual killer. ONE, because I got arrested at the start of the play. TWO, because I was wearing a hoodie and I looked like a killer and THREE because I'm not 'American' therefore they will think that I killed her. Which at the end of the performance, when Dulce said put your hand up if you thing 'The Captain' is the killer, there were 9 hands up, which I had the most, and then when Dulce said put your hard up for Stephanie, she had won, she got one more vote, which I think it was a really close call. Even though there were no signs of Stephanie being the killer, the audience still chose her, showing that the whole audience was concentrating during the performance and they knew what was going on.

Overall, I really enjoyed the final performance,  even though we all think we could have done it 100 times better, but we still didn't give up, we gave it our best shot.

Workshop

During acting classes, we would write down each specific thing about who's going to do what and what their purpose in the workshop is. I was chosen to do Vocal and Physical warm up, which what I done was, the person is meant to say their name, then their hobby and then do a gesture to finish it off, for example, (My name's Marion Tasic, I love boxing and then I would throw couple punches), we done this throughout the whole circle. This was a really easy and simple warm up to complete.

The second one was Brunilda, her Game was 'The Wink Murder'. Students gather around in a cirlcle and you choose a detective. The detective goes outside whilst you choose the murderer. When the murderer winks at you, you must play dead. The detective then must try and catch the murderer. Another element my class likes to add the 'dramatic death' where they are allowed to act while they dying.

The third one was Isaiah, his game was the splat game, asks the group to make a circle, when everyone is ready, He will clap towards his right side, and everyone has to follow the clap, and the purpose of it is to focus on the clap and see how fast we can bring it back to him. Our best time was around 1.8 seconds with around 25-30 students.

The fourth one was Tarkan's 'Guess the movie name' where you make a group of four people, and Tarkan would give you a movie name for example 'Titanic', then that group has to create a really short scene from the movie titanic, but before that, a person is sent out and when the groups are ready to perform their little scenes from different movie names, then the person tries to guess which movie they were playing.

The fifth one was Dulce's game, which was very similar to Tarkans game. Dulce gave them a way of death. how the incident happened, like was it a death by gun, knife, curse, etc..
She gave them the word death because our play was about death and it was she who died in the play.

Peter Pan Evaluation

Barrie's most famous creation, Peter Pan, first appeared in his 1902 novel The Little White Bird. Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, was first performed in London in 1904. It was transformed into the novel Peter and Wendy, published in 1911.
Peter Pan started in Kensington Gardens in 1897. By then Barrie was rich and famous as a novelist and playwright but unhappily and childlessly married. 

Walking his St Bernard dog Porthos he met two delightful little boys, George and Jack Llewelyn Davies, aged five and four, enjoying an outing.

Tiny Scotsman, huge dog. The boys were tickled pink and instinctively knew Barrie was one of them.

A child at heart, that is. To us it would all seem dead fishy – a dwarfish loner in his 30s befriending children in a park – but in those days innocence was presumed.

The brothers (there were to be five in all) were sons of the lovely Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, wife of a barrister. She was from the literary Du Maurier family (novelist Daphne is its most famous member) and her brother was the actor Gerald Du Maurier, who would twirl his moustache splendidly as Captain Hook in the original Peter Pan.

BARRIE found what he had been looking for all his life – a happy mother and a brood 

of boys he could call his own.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_Wendy

Peter is an exaggerated stereotype of a boastful and careless boy. He claims greatness, even when such claims are questionable (such as congratulating himself when Wendy re-attaches his shadow). In the play and book, Peter symbolises the selfishness of childhood, and is portrayed as being forgetful and self-centred.

Peter has a nonchalant, devil-may-care attitude, and is fearlessly cocky when it comes to putting himself in danger. Barrie writes that when Peter thought he was going to die on Marooners' Rock, he felt scared, yet he felt only one shudder. With this blithe attitude, he says, "To die will be an awfully big adventure". In the play, the unseen and unnamed narrator ponders what might have been if Peter had stayed with Wendy, so that his cry might have become, "To live would be an awfully big adventure!", "but he can never quite get the hang of it".^[

He and the boys together invented Neverland, Tinkerbell, Nana the dog, the Lost Boys and the crocodile with the ticking clock. They had wonderful adventures and Barrie became part of the family, known as Uncle Jim. So farso good.

When The Little White Bird was published in 1902 (the bones of the Peter Pan story) it was hailed “one of the most charming books ever written”.

From the beginning of the novel, the narrator focuses on a mother: Mrs. Darling. She dreams of having children; unfortunately, she must first convince her husband that children are financially viable. Despite all the evidence to the contrary, she gets her husband to agree to have kids. A mother’s role is not in measured in numbers or money; it is rooted in the homely: the house, the stories, the children. When Wendy and her brothers fly away, Mrs. Darling is devastated, but she does not give up on her children. She leaves the window open, awaiting their return.

I really enjoyed the way the performance turned out to be, if I had a chance I would easily do it again. This performance was one of my favourite plays that I have taken part in, I really enjoyed my time with my team mates practising the whole play, and fixing up mistakes that we done. Everyone was contributing and doing their best towards the play.



Im really proud of everyone and how hard everyone was working during rehearsals. Each rehearsal everyone was concentrated in their work and done their best to complete it they way its meant to be done. I really enjoyed it when we had to start singing the songs that were given to us as Lost Boys. We had more than enough time to practise singing with the music group and memories the song lyrics by heart, which for me it wasn't hard at all. What was a little bit tricky was the lyrics while dancing, because at the end of the play, we had a little dance and it was really confusing to sing and dance at the same time. We had enough practise to fix our mistakes and what we did wrong, which then it became much easier to do.

I was playing a character from lost boys, i had a made up name 'tiddles'. My aim in the play was help all other lost boys, make Peter Pan proud and wishing Wendy was our mother. I had a small role which I didn't complain about because I was happy with whatever I would get. The original six boy's in "Peter Pan" are named, Nibs, Tootles, Slightly, Curly, Twin One and Twin Two. The lost boys found themselves in Neverland after falling out of their prams as babies, according to the story. My role was the seventh lost boy named Tiddles.



My favourite scene in the play was the fight scene where the lost boys fight against the pirates and Peter Pan vs Hook. The fight was very dramatic and enjoyable to watch, well, at least from our point of view. We had a lot of time practising that particular scene because we had to be careful because there were a lot of actors in the stage with fake sword just swinging by, and others like myself jumping and kicking. We had a couple run through's to check that everything is turning out the way we wanted it to be. I really enjoyed being in that scenes, because, even though its not real life, even though your just acting, it still feels as if your actually fighting the pirates. The adrenaline and the energy into the fight scene was really good which I was amazed by my team mates.


The lost boys were described as;


Tootles is described as the most unfortunate and humblest of the band, because 'the big things' and adventures happen while "he has stepped round the corner". His is the one who shoots Wendy with a bow and arrow after Tinker Bells tell them Wendy is a bird that Peter wanted killed. When Tootles realises his mistake, he asks Peter to kill him. Wendy however survives, and Tootles is spared. Though he is clumsy and silly.
Tootles is the first to defend Wendy when she wants to return to London.



Nibs is described as happy and confident, possible the bravest Lost Boy. The only thing he remembers about his mother is that she always wanted a cheque book and says he would love to give her one - if he knew what it was.



Slightly is described as the most conceited of the boys, because he believes that he, unlike the others, remembers what life was before he was 'lost'. However, most of his 'memories' are either based on misunderstandings; for example, he claims to know what his last name is because his pinafore had the words "Slightly Soiled" written on the tag.



Curly has curly hair, hence his name. He isn't very smart but very loveable. Curly is also a little limid but has a kind heart. He's the one who sings with Wendy after the Lost Boy's finish singing "Our House" from the play.



The Twins - First and Second Twin know little about themselves as they are not allowed to because Peter Pan does not know what twins are, and no Lost Boy is allowed to know anything that Peter doesn't.


Tiddles is a made up character by myself. The reason why is because there were seven of us actors and everyone got their character. I had to come up with my own character name and its purpose to the play. I believe the name Tiddles is a decent name for a Lost Boy as it sounds really familiar to the other Lost boys names. I've described Tiddles has a helpful boy who wants nothing but the best for all the other lost boys especially for Peter and Wendy. Tiddles best moments were when Wendy was telling them Stories at night.