Creating a Play from a Scene in The Caucasian Chalk Circle by Bertolt Brecht We were asked to create a play from a scene in The caucasian chalk circle by Bertolt Brecht. The scene we choose was the scene of when Grusha and The dying man are getting married. The way we done this play was to make sure we had the rough outline of the story and use it to create are own play that had to be adapted we used loads of Brechtian techniques like Gestus, Choral speaking, alienation, montages and levels. The Group we got into was a group of four and they were Marlon, Josh, Colin, and Me.The scene we were asked to do was intresting because you could add loads of things that you could use to make it your own and …show more content…
Then following on from this me and colin start the opening scene and this is when grusha (me) is saying that she needs a birthcertificate for michael and colin goes on about that even the queen needs a birth certificate to prove that she is the queen and he says it costs £400 pounds so i shout out £400 pounds and look gobsmacked and say £400 pounds just for a piece of paper with his name date of birth and place of birth and i also say where are you going to get the money from and colin says Abbey National and then at the end of this scene colin freezes and i have a little conversation with michael saying that he has caused a lot of trouble and that i looked after him out of the goodness of my heart. Then everyone freezes and i walk over to the placards and say wedding arrangements and show …show more content…
Then we all freeze again and i go up to the placards change it to the monk and say the monk and in this scene you will see the mother in law collecting the monk from the pub in this scene the mother in law walks in and says come on monk your coming with me because were late for the wedding as it is so hurry up and the monk says wait let me just finish this pint and i will be along so the mother in law goes ok then and picks up the pint and in slow motion you see the mother in law throw the pint over the monk and go youve finished the pint now havent you so come on. We then frooze again while josh walked overe to the placard and changed it to the
Even the props we used we really simple in that we only used an apple
reach into the ideas and themes of the play so we will have a good
shall firstly do a summery of the play and give a basic image of what
And after some deep thought, we all agreed that the mechanical way would be the
have a specific purpose necessary to the story. For example, the main character, Clarence Earl
the play, so we can see the way they change when they meet for the
There were five of us in a group so we searched the script for a scene
persuaded toward it. As well as planning out my papers, and to make sure it’s the way I truly want it to
At the beginning of our meeting we made an agreement to not allow past grievances to impair our judgement in this matter. Throughout the meeting we realized that in order to move forward and to
our recent collaboration on The Tempest. In my opinion I think we need to make
This sets up the story for the play. Most or nearly all the play is
... idea and were clueless as to how to run that idea to its full potential.
Paulus, P, B and Brown, V,R (2003) Enhancing Ideational Creativity in Groups. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Hence, at this stage it is to explore and experiments with models, dummies and storyboards so that we can portray a glimpse of how the design will look like in reality, not to mention this method also can be used to convey ideas so that they can be understood in this context.
the rest of our year to have a talk with our head of year. It was easy