Performing Arts in Context Log Book West Side Story, The Romeo & Juliet
(Baz Lurhman Version) And The Original Version: Character Analogies
Voice 1 Log Book
Vocal/ Physical Warm-Ups for Actors and Speakers
Breathing:
Inhale through the nose, exhale through the mouth. Do this 5 times.
Inhale through the nose, filling lungs to 90% capacity, and then
quickly fill up.
Exhale with a relaxed a-a-a-h. Do this 5 times.
Stretching:
Stretch your neck to one side (ear to shoulder), then the other. Do
this twice.
Stretch your chin to your chest, then back. Do this twice.
Stretch all the way around (chin to chest, shoulder, back, and chest)
5 times each way.
Shake all over, like a wet dog, starting from the top and working
down.
Voice:
Say "hah," "he," "hi," "ho," and "huh" from your diaphragm.
Say each of your vowels from head to toe, toe to head, as if the sound
is coming out of those parts of your body.
Say each of your vowels as if it is coming from you mouth only, then
nose, then eyes, then top of the head.
Say each of your vowels from your facial mask (your whole face).
Say "b-r-r-r-r" as if you are a race car. Do this several times.
Say "gutter, butter, butter, gutter, good blood bad blood, good blood,
bad blood red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather"
Say "The Swiss wrist watch sank swiftly" 5 times.
Good Posture:
An exercise for practising is to pretend that you are supported with a
‘metal rod’ going through the top of your head and through the back of
your body down to your ankle; this is the ‘Alexander theory’.
Something also similar is to imagine that you’re a puppet dangling on
a single string attached to the top of their heads.
Research for My Chosen Monologue
The Shawshank Redemption is a 1994 movie, written and directed by
Frank Darabont, based on the Stephen King novella Rita Hayworth and
Shawshank Redemption. The film stars Tim Robbins as Andy Dufresne and
Morgan Freeman as Ellis "Red" Redding.
This movie is primarily about Andy Dufresne's life in prison after
being convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover, despite his
protests of innocence.
Theatre in Education Log Book
In theatre in education we have been progressing on the play ‘Romeo &
Juliet’. We have chosen as a team to produce the play in the style of
‘Goths & Chavs’ and the conflict will be a cause of trend.
The Uses & Role of Theatre in Education
* High quality, entertaining and educational performances for young
people
* Expertise in Drama with disaffected and disadvantaged teenagers
* Facilitating forums and workshops with all ages
In an experiment, around 350 Chicagoans, were recorded reading the following paragraph, titled “Too Hot for Hockey”, this script was written specifically to force readers to vocalize vowels “that reveal how closely key sounds resemble the accent's dominant traits” (Wbez). The paragraph is as follows:
Decker, Pamela. "Romeo and Juliet." Theatre Journal 62.4 (2010): 681-3. ProQuest. Web. 18 Apr. 2013.
The play West Side Story, by Arthur Laurents, is based upon the play Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare. Despite a few differences, both works, in essence, have the same plot. The source of violence in Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story is the ever-present hatred between families and between gangs, although, because of the "star-cross’d lovers" motif in Romeo and Juliet, the hatred plays a larger role in producing the ending of West Side Story than it does the ending of Romeo and Juliet.
I decided to go about this assignment by making a table (table 1.) and marking how many times I hear or notice nine different vocal changes, as well as certain miscellaneous anomalies.
William Shakespeare composed the tragedy Romeo and Juliet in the 16th century. This play vividly portrayed the banned love between the heirs of two families. Spoiler alert, Romeo and Juliet killed themselves in the end. Every person in Romeo and Juliet held responsibility for their death. Among all of the characters, Friar Lawrence and Capulet were major catalysts of the casualties. Let's not forget Romeo, the one that started it all.
Establishment consisted of teaching the children correct placement of articulators to produce the targeted speech sound across all word positions. The randomized-variable practice began once the child could produce the sound 80% of the time in certain syllables. It usually took children 1-5 sessions to complete the establishment phase. Random teaching tasks such as imitated single syllables, imitated single words, nonimitated single words, imitated two-to-four word phrases, nonimitated two-to-four word phrases, imitated sentences, nonimitated sentences, and storytelling or conversations were selected in the second phase. Participants remained in this phase until they obtained 80% mastery across two
< http://callisto.gsu.edu:4000/CGI:html> (5 May 1997). Rozen, Leah. "William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet."
The classic play Romeo and Juliet by the famous playwright William Shakespeare is one of the most beautiful love stories of all time and has captured and inspired readers everywhere. Regardless of the fact that it was written in the 1500’s, it is still being performed and extolled today. There is a multitude of reasons for such continuance of the play. First of all, its everlasting themes of love and hate enable people to deeply relate to the story. Secondly, its memorable characters deeply imprint on the minds of readers. And lastly, above all, is its magnificent language which many writers today regard in awe. These three elements make the acclaimed play, Romeo and Juliet, one of the most timeless stories of our lives.
Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story share many similar themes. Romeo and Juliet both chronicle a story of overcoming prejudice and hatred, forbidden love, and defying stereotypes that nobody thought could be broken. The two stories are similar in a multitude of ways, even though their settings are centuries apart- Romeo and Juliet set in the 1500’s, and West Side Story set in the 1950’s. Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story both teach a lesson of how prejudice can teach you how to hate, and how one of your rivals may be the one who helps you remember how to love.
Every time my parents read to me, I tried to say the words along with them. As a result, anytime I had problems pronouncing a word, my mother made me sound the word out until I sounded it correctly. She told me to take each word, syllable by syllable.
Garrett (1975) represented four characteristics of slips of the tongue. The first one is that the exchange exists between linguistic units of the same positions. For example, initial linguistic segments are replaced by another initial linguistic segment. The same generalization is applied to the middle and final linguistic segments. Additionally, slips appear in similar phonetic units. This means that that the consonants are replaced by consonants and vowels are replaced by vowels. Furthermore, the slips occur in similar stress patterns, which signifies that stressed syllables are replaced by stressed syllables and unstressed syllables are replaced by unstressed syllables. Finally, slips of the tongue follow the phonological rules of a language (cited in Carroll, 2007, p. 195).
These three groups were then asked to complete three different tasks. The first was to repeat and segment 20 different words (5 consonant-vowel-consonant, 5 CCVC, 5 CVCC, and 5 CCVCC) and two overall scores were administered to the participants. Both scores were out of a maximum of 20 points; the first score was based on giving 1 point for each correctly analyzed word, and the second score was based on giving 1 point for correctly analyzing medial vowels.
Being a director in a production such as Romeo and Juliet is no easy task, and I enter into this paper with that in mind. My goals are to be creative, and do things differently from the many versions of the play we have viewed in class. Each of those directors took the original text, written by William Shakespeare, and turned it into a unique version of their own; unique in the sense that they changed the tragedy by taking out lines, conversation or even entire scenes to better suit that particular director’s needs.
The vowels “I” sound in pin and “e” sound in pen may sound with the same vowel sound if it is preceded by a nasal sounds (n or m)
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