What is circus? Is it still entertaining?
People Risking there lives to make others laugh and it keeps people on the edge of there seats. But Circuses have now so steroid typical that they are not as popular as they used to be. There are many arguments for and against circuses
Cultural backgrounds
Only one circus because of money, seen it all before,
Only one show so when it does finally come to your area you can only see it once
What is the difference between traditional and new circus's?
The Animals not as popular
Bigger- more seating, bigger company
Circus's are now a lot more choreographed
History of circus
With side show events- different trailers with smaller acts, dwarf in lions cage ect.
Freak shows
Barnum and bailey
Modern circus's are very theatre like with acting and monologs, dance, special effects- costumes/lighting
Clown conventions- look into it and research stock clowning characters.
When we started to block the scene we thought about the set. We thought about having a projected set. This is a good idea because then is there is any changes in scenery we can do it quickly and we can have what ever we want at a low cost.
In the script there are some stage directions but not enough to completely fill out all the dialog so we added in hand movements and gestures to make it more interesting.
My character only has a small part so I helped stage the rest of the act. I had to play the part of Dizzy as a student hadn't attended rehearsal. Next lesson I will go through the movements and where she is meant to be on the stage to save time for everyone so they don't have to teach her. Also I will be working on my characters accent as I haven't managed to achieve it to the best of my ability. I'm going to do this by looking on YouTube at clips of Russian people speaking about the accent and teaching the viewer how to speak English with an accent. For next lesson I would have looked at YouTube clips so that I'm ready to perform my part, I will also learn my lines so its easier to get into character and then I could use hand movements with appropriate pauses.
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