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Our assessment was based on the play Teechers.

Our first scene was the Christmas scene at the start of act two.  I played the role of Hobby who was a troublesome teen who had many insecurity’s about her weight. Despite this she wanted to shine and be treated just like anybody else.

Alice played the role of Gail who was a outgoing flirtatious girl whom craved Centre of attention. She was also a friend of Hobby’s and Salty’s.

Mackenzie played the role of a shop keeper and Martin Roebuck.

 

We showed Hobby as a insecure teen by talking quiet towards the start and lurking towards the background. We also showed her constantly eating and wiping crumbs of her shoulder. This could mean that she dealt with her insecurities towards food as she used this as a coping method. She could also use this as it will always be there. Towards the end of the scene she got louder to show that she was a troublesome teen. This could also show that she liked to keep her insecurities inside and block people out in her own world.

We showed Alice as centre of attention as always being at the front and being flirtatious by kicking her legs and grinning like a chesser cat. We also showed she was out going by talking loudly thoughout the seen. Which implies she is happy with herself.

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In our performance of John Godbers play there was a scene in which Gail was attempting to song Mr. Nixon in his car, but her attempts were duly stopped by Oggy who hopped into the back seat of the car and began aggravating Mr. Nixon.  We showed how annoyed Nixon was getting with the tone in his voice. At the start of the argument Nixon had a more polite tone as if he was simply asking Oggy to exit the vehicle, but gradually got fiercer up to the point where he smacked Oggy. This was a very significant part as it showed Oggy that Mr. Nixon was going to stand up to him and that he wasn’t such a pushover.

 

My understanding of john Godber play called ‘teechers’, there are three character Gail, hobby, and Salty they all have different personalities. Hobby’s personality is loud mouthed, largely built in size and eats to comfort herself and help her fell happy. Gail’s personality is she is always flirts with Mr. Nixon because she fancy’s him. In the scene we did was the Christmas scene   I played Gail she was very flirtatious she was with Mr. Nixon.  I think she like getting all the attention in this play Miriam played   hobby she all way liked eating food  and little snack    she was very largely fat  and Mackenzie  play salty. We done this because   we thought each person suited their roles well,.

 

 

 

During our “teechers” assessment I played the role of oggy (the school hard nut) in my first scene. Half way into the scene I came on acting all cool and walking with my arms swinging beside me. I did this to show that because he is hard he has to keep a reputation and keep being the hard kid at all times so he has to make an impression of being cool.I did this by having a sort of hunch on my back to show that I can’t be bothered to stand up straight and I think john Godber put oggy in the play to show the power changes between the 1970’s to the 1980’s were teachers were no longer able to use the Kane so the pupils started to take control and that’s why everyone is scared of oggy because he has made it clear that he is the boss with the power. Also I had to slouch to interpret that I don’t care and I swung my arms acting like I had swag meaning that I was popular and needed an action for me to stand out as being “oggy moxon”. When I approached Gail (the chavvy slut) my voice changed to a confident swagger boy who felt self-assured that he was going to pull Gail and get her into coming to his dad’s party. I used this approach because it interprets oggy as being the mean kid who thinks he can walk up to a girl and get her in bed by just saying “hi” which in the real world does not work. I proved this by making my voice deep and talking like a chav to show a manly but aggressive boy. The deep voice also shows that oggy is the dominate one of the conversation and that he is the Alfa male when really he is just getting mugged off.

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In our performance the scene we done where the planning of the party and after the dance  Mr. Nixon’s car scene hobbie was performed by georgie hobbie liked eating little snacks throughout the day and shes very shy and is chubby georgie played her by waddling when walking and kept on eating things and we showed she was shy by her not looking at a person when talking  I acted gail by being bossy towards hobbie and always being right and later on brooklynne played oggy in the car scene he always trys to annoy people and brooklynne talking like a chav And swears which means she has no respect for others and doesn’t care Mr. Nixon was trying to get the kids more involved in school and show its not  boring to the students and make it more  fun to learn

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The ‘Morning’ Scene:

We chose to do this scene to, not only demonstrate our use of multirole, but to give the audience a sense of the individual personalities at Whitewall School. Take my parts for example, for this scene alone I had to play 7 separate roles! Although this does include non-speaking roles as well, I still had to use different body language, facial features and gestures to imply those different characters. However with the speaking parts, some of them were often quite similar. For example, I played Gail at one point and then ‘Girl-with-gum’ at another. This meant that, because of these characters common dislike for school, the personalities might be difficult to portray without making them seen to similar. However, in our version of the scene, we wanted to show the idea that the ‘Girl-with-gum’ could not care less about the teacher, whereas Gail, being the flirtatious girl that she is, would most probably be very interested in the teacher considering that he is male. From this, I can choose distinct, stereotypical drama technique that represent these slightly different personalities; gestures. The gesture I used was that of ‘fiddling with my hair’. However, for when I was Gail, I curled the hair around my finger so to imply that she was trying to appear girly and sweet (flirting), but when I did it as the ‘Girl-with-gum’, I was just running my fingers through it to imply boredom or a desire to be somewhere else (thought). This just goes to show that, although being very similar, this gesture, if done in two different ways, can mean two completely different things.

If I were to do this scene with the aid of lights and music, I would have a set piece for when each actor came in, that clearly represented each character to further the audience’s understanding of the separate personalities. I would also use a darker spotlight and maybe even a step or block for the more sinister characters, (Mr Basford), to help show both personality and status.

 

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In our first scene, of our class production of Teechers, my interpolation of Miss Maureen Whitham. When playing this Character I had to show Miss Maureen Whitham being not in control. I did this by making the character talk slightly slower and a little quieter also she didn’t move around very much. I did this because Miss Maureen Whitham, being a teacher who can’t control her students, is a very soft teacher who doesn’t like to get in anyone’s way.

 

In our second scene we did a scene between Gale, Hobby and Mr. Nixon. Mr. Nixon arrives late to his lesson. When he arrives to his class, five minutes late, his is in shock to find all his students just sitting around doing nothing. The scene then turns over to Hobby and Gale who are both just sat on the chairs. Hobby is eating a chocolate bar and Gale is sat next to her talking to each over. To do this we had Mr. Nixon over the other side of the room talking to other students. Gale that notices Mr. Nixon on the other side of the room and suddenly has a big smile on her face. Talking to Hobby when Nixon is walking over to them Gale tries her best to flirt with him. We do this by Gale walking up to Mr. Nixon and him pushing her away. We did this scene so the audience could get the idea of the characters. Gale being the Flirt, Hobby being the fat one always eating and Mr. Nixon being the new teacher trying to do his best as being a good teacher around the school.

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We chose to explore the part of the teenagers underage drinking before the school disco. We chose this scene because it showed where the teenagers where in regards to they dont fit in with the group you have at school for example the geeks, the chavs or the popular people this is because they are different to normal teenagers. We showed this by acting them all very differently but they all had one thing in common and that was they are all slightly shy.

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I think we showed our interpretation of john godber’s teechers by using explorative strategies such as narrating. Throughout our performance we used narrating to show what the person was really thinking, for example in the scene where Oggy invites Gail to his father’s party, Gail says “I knew he fancied me” , she can show she is annoyed with him by adding a facial expressions so that the audience have a clear understanding of how the character feels. We could have also added some other explorative strategies such as cross cutting between two scenes to make it much more interesting for the audience to watch. Overall I believe that we showed a good interpretation of teechers through narrating but could of maybe added some more to make the performance stronger.

 

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Our first scene was the play’s opening in which I acted as Salty, Jade acted as Gail and Ria acted as Hobby. During the beginning we focused very much on showing the audience how we interpreted the character’s relationships with each other, we showed Salty as the leader of the group keeping him constantly in front of the others and center stage. In the line ‘Sit down first year, stand up second year’ in which Salty refers to Mrs Hudson’s school assemblies Gail sits down and Hobby stands up on command showing just how much authority he has over them and establishing him as ‘the one in charge’. In order to show Salty not only as the leader of the group but also a youngster who surprisingly had a lot to say I paced and made elaborate gestures when I gave his speech, showing that although he seemingly hadn’t rehearsed what he was going to say he was very determined to put into words just what he was feeling. Even dismissing Gail with a gesture at one point, demonstrating how much he really cares about what he’s saying. This action of authority parallels and further scene in which he surprises Mrs. Parry with his maturity as he explains to her that the politicians don’t care about ordinary folk like him. In turn I felt that the interpretation of Salty showed his many sides which shows John Gober’s trate of using stereotypes and multi-role.

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My Assessment (Teechers)

 

Discuss the intensions of your character. How were they shown?

 

In our class production ‘Teechers’, Our first scene was when Nixon walked through the school corridors and heard the different types of teaching, (Miss Whitem and Mr. Basford). My interpretation of Mr. Basford (the deputy head teacher) shows that he was angry and a strict teacher and that his life revolved around good math’s results and good grades. I did this by shouting and speaking in a fast pace. This shows that Mr. Basford knew what he was going to say next because he had said the same sentences over and over again. This also means that we showed how long Mr. Basford has been at this school. We did this because it shows that Mr. Basford’s life revolves around the school and the grades, this is what are intentions were for this scene.

 

Another scene in the play Teechers that we selected was when Mr. Nixon arrives late at his first class, drama class. My interpretation of Hobby (best friends with Gail) was that she was continually eating and that she had no presence about her/ she was nonchalance to what others thought about her. Also that she is a shy character that might want a boyfriend. I showed this by the way I sat, I was slouched on a chair and my legs were wide open. This shows that she doesn’t care what people see. This could also imply that she may feel like no boys look at her in a sexual way and that the only way boys will look at her, is if she sits with her legs wide open. We did this to show that Hobby might want a boyfriend and she secretly wants to be as flirty as Gail.  And these were our intentions in this scene.

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In this scene I was Mr. Nixon who had just arrived at his first day of work at Whitehall. I was walking through the corridor as I watched the different types of teachers at work. I showed the different teaching by my reactions, which showed the relationship between my characters to the different teaching style. This was achieved by being shock when Megan (who was Mr. Basford) was shouting and me being amused when Charlotte (as Mrs. Whitam) tried to quiet down her class. I did this to show that MR. Nixon is from a completely different school, and that he isn’t used to being in this area. Even though I showed him as being confused with the attitude of the classes, I wanted him to show that he has a determination to make things better.

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We performed our group assessment on the play ‘Teechers’, in the first scene I played Hobby. Gail, Hobby and Salty are all really over excited with the fact they are leaving, Salty repeatedly shouts ‘Knackers’ to show freedom, he lets all his emotions out. They go through everything that they aren’t going to miss about their school. Hobby is constantly eating showing she is uncomfortable in herself, and eats to be happy. Gail chews her gum and twirls her hair to show she is girly, confident and makes her look in charge. We are all on stage for the whole of this scene, I would mostly sit down out of the way to show I am not as confident as Gail and Salty, I would be quite blunt with my voice and again, eating. I did all this because Hobby is very quiet, she doesn’t really like to be noticed, Hobby is quite a large girl so she shadows behind Gail, this is why she is not confident and eats to hide this.

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My interpretation of "Teechers" showed my understanding of John Godbers play in many different ways. One way I did this was by useing many types of multi rolling in my scenes. For example in one scene I played Mrs whitam who has a soft and calming voice but is known as a push over to her pupils, she has a very hard time controlling her pupils as they are out of control and crazy. I played the character Mrs Whitam by being very fragile and nervous when teaching her students. In the same scene I then switched to the character of Gail who is a student in Whitewall school who is uncontrollable and demanding in the way she acts. I played Gail by being flirtatious and talkative in lessons and outside of school.  This then meant for each different character I had to change my voice, and body language to show I knew how to interpret many different characters in my scenes, which showed I understand how to multi roll.

  

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In our opening scene we explored different drama mediums such as music/sound, use of space. We chose to interpret Godbers characters as young and fresh and we showed this through our use of inappropriate dance moves showing our immaturity. The music we used was well known and showed that we interpreted John Godbers characters as regular yet lively kids that, like any other normal kid, love music. The music heightened the atmosphere and the impact of energy from our first scene affected all our other scenes as well. Also, we travelled round the entire stage during our performance varying from using all the space on stage and the audience. This was to indicate that we were playing characters that were confident and feel dominant in their own space. Our opening scene showed many levels as we explored the different levels we could achieve on stage. We had moments on the florr, crouching, jumping , standing and even on a chair. The use of blocks and chairs were used throughout the performance as props to add emphasis to our lines. For example, Gail and Hobby hid behind a block at the thought of Oggy Moxon, emphasized their fear of him.

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Our interpretation of John Godbers play was the characters would have a large difference between each one. Oggy would be more of an excitable miky taking character rather than one that would step right up to people and puff his chest out as if he was about to punch someone. Gail would also be excitable but with a subtle flirtyness about her. Hobby would be a self-conscious character who would always look to find her way into the limelight. Salty would be a character that would play everything cool as if he knew about anything and everything. In our scenes we showed our characters I think quite clearly. We tried a little bit of a comedic side to characters like Mr Nixon. We showed the comedic side of Mr Nixon most probably in the dirty magazine scene, during the conversation between him and Oggy. The excitable and subtle flirtyness of Gail was probably shown best during the scene where Gail and Hobby where talking about Mr Nixon coming to the Christmas dance and how Gail was going to snog him. All three characters in the car scene I think where very well plaid especially Mr Nixon and Gail, the way there was a constant awkwardness between them was a big factor in creating a scene that really sucked in the audience, this also meant that we were really able to gauge into the minds of the characters that we were playing and play them as though they were really us. This helped allot as it meant that we were able to perform with fluency and this scene rather easily.

During our class module of ‘Teechers’, I was involved in the scene which was when Oggy Moxon and Mr Nixon had a heated argument in front of a massive group of Whitewall high school students. Ella’s Interpretation of oggy showed understanding and domination over the whitewall students. This was shown by Ella changing her whole facial expression and appearance by clenching her jaw to show anger and arrogance.  By Ella showing this facial expression shows her understanding of the Character of oggy moxon. Oggy moxon grew up in a pub surrounded by violence and inappropriate language, so this whole surrounding and a violent environment from a young age.  Ella played oggy to be full of arrogance and to have a huge ego by her changing body language, alternatively when I played Oggy Moxon in the scene of Oggy inviting Gail to his party I used a soft voice. I decided to use this voice drop to express his affection for Gail. I did this by having a softer and less common vocal voice and also a more tender look in my eyes. This showed his effect for gail and slight expression of love. However when I  finishing up my scene I said ‘oh where something easy to get off your luck might be in’ the use of this speech showed oggy moxon cheekiness and rudeness slightly coming into to play. This then reassured gail that oggy was a a rude, stuck up average teenage boy. This is cause oggy moxon never usually shows this side of him as he is known for being tough.

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