Double Performing Arts Lesson (27th November 2015)

In todays lesson we agreed to have a run through. We decided this to see which scenes we needed to work on and which need to be changed.


We began with 'The Three Farmers Scene'. However we decided that it wasn't only too short it didn't introduce Boggis, Bunce and Bean in a comical way like we wanted. So we devised a more slapstick introduction for the farmers.
It began with-

• Bunce running on stage with a chicken drumstick, looking around for Boggis (as if he was trying to escape him. Possibly because he stole his chicken.)
• Boggis come waddling on out of breath (gasps/ falls to his knees to catch his breath.)
• Boggis looks up at Bunce and marches towards him (Bunce still hasn't realised he is there)
• Boggis taps Bunce on the shoulder (notifying him that he is there).
• They fight over the chicken. Boggis snatches it off him and holds it above his head.
• Bean walks on and snatches the chicken from Boggis's hand.

This then leads into their opening scene 'The introduction to the Farmers'. Where Olly (Narrator) introduces us to the kids.


After we completed this we continued through the run through, until we reached the 'We'll never let him go scene'. As we ran through this scene we quickly realised we struggled to remember all of our lines as we'd only run through it with James 2 or 3 times. We also realised that the race between Bunce and Bean either needed to be cut out or needed to be reworked. We decided that it wasn't a significant part of the story and it wasn't worth reworking, so we decided to cut that part of the scene out and shorten it. This helped because it meant we didn't have to worry about learning those lines and we could focus on the more important scenes in the story.


After we completed our run through we received notes from Miss McSherry on how to improve our performances individually and as a whole group. Therefore as a group we needed to dedicate more time towards learning lines and providing a lot more energy!
She advised us to always keep our audience in mind, during the play we began to lose our over the top energy that was necessary for Children's Theatre.
When performing, "The Race," our facial expressions were very good! When we performed the chase during, "We'll Never Let Him Go," it wasn't choreographed very well and this would need work; this doesn't matter now as we have removed it.
Finally, our creeping scenes during the raids were very impressive and hilarious.