costume suggestions

Okay, the fun bit. Costumes! here's what i think but i'm open to suggestion;

chung-jeans and a t shirt

Ara-black tights, black mini skirt with top

Kojo-jeans and a hoodie/gillet-maybe both-do you both have the same colour hoodie? be great if you did.

Hassan-jeans and t shirt

Roza- skirt and top or jeans and top

young woman-hair in a high pony tail,tight jeans or short skirt/pink hoodie-trashy looking

dying man-(Euan)-suit and briefcase

mother-maybe african dress-could you bring some options in?

father-sandy coloured trousers/top


Councillor-any sort of smart trousers/smart skirt (not a mini skirt), blouse or skirt and blazer/cardigan

Translators-same as councillor

social worker-as above

Refuge manager-cords, shirt or t shirt and tank top (don't have a heart attack Jacob it will look great!)

Market trader-jeans, hoodie/coat with fingerless gloves (sachelle's idea)

kojo's brother-football strip top and long shorts (when playing the street cleaner you will need a coat too)

the two kids with guns-army trousers- i can see if costume have any of these and t shirt

What should be on your blog so far-As of 21st Jan 2013

Hi chaps!,

Here is what you should have on your blog up to now if you want to get a distinction!;

• character work- what you discovered in the 'day in the life of' ex, what you learnt about your character in the self help group improvisation, the three character questions-what do i say about myself, what do other characters say about me, what do i say about other people? Discoveries about your characters voice and phsyicality during rehearsals, photographs of the 'role on the wall' that we created in class.

• Research-background research into what your character does for a living or research into the country your character is from-videos, images, links to articles/you tube clips, drawings that you have made

• Text work-annotated section of the section of text that you have in the play

• Observations of how others are working

• Observations of games and warm up tasks that we do-why did we do them, what did you learn about your character/yourself as an actor during it.

Casting

Okay here are the casting splits;

Kojo;

Kevaughn      start to scene 14

Brett             14 to the end


Ara;

Deja              start to scene 9

Tsion             9 to 17

Isabella        17 to 36


Cheung;

George       1 to 13

Ellis            14 to 36


Roza:

Willa          start to 10

Imogen       11 to end



Mother;

Ivory        1 to 11

Leanne    12 to end

Ara

This is what i think Ara might look like if she wasn't living in England;

 

London Markets

Thursday, June 30, 2011

Portobello Road

Portobello Road

A scattered cloud Saturday morning

and all that was old is born again.

Aged store fronts, all painted

with pastel colors and promises,

teem with urbanites eager to find

a peace missing from city life.

Antique dealers preen and polish

long forgotten treasures, and artisans

guard their works like museum curators

between falafel carts and T-shirts stands.

Costume jewels tossed in bins,

look like grandma’s button box;

they tell the story of wasted money

or a memory dead with the wearer.

It is serene, surreal and staccato

as the crowd flows down the street.

They stop momentarily and swirl in eddies

of painters and farm fresh produce

before the stream catches them

and they continue to bob on their way.

Zhongshan

A day in the life of

This is an improvisation exercise to help actors live a 'day in the life' of their characters. The actors could choose either to pick a day from when the play is set in London or from a day set in the country where they are from.

To answer this question you could write down a list of times and then write about what your character was doing at that moment and then write a couple of paragraphs about what you have learnt through the exercise. eg

7am -Ara wakes up. she cleans her house that her and her family live in. There are sounds of chickens/market stall setting up/people shouting at each other


10am- Ara gets ready for school and walks along the busy, crowded road to get to the place where she meets her friends every morning. There are soldiers on the street


1.30pm


3.30pm


5.00