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creative groups develops a show used to address social issues, create moments of revisionist history conversation with audience street theater physical performances text based or entirely physical start with script, rehearse through improv and collaboration unique concept conversations about hard topics

red lights catcall metronome sound dance match song men smiling women dancing amsterdam prostitution few people watching at first crowd grows men dance along filming cheering at end stop trafficking as at end people look confused when we first watched the piece i was very confused and didn’t understand the point of what was happening. i was disturbed by the faces that the men were making while watching the women dance, and i though it was not appropriate of them to be catcalling and filming. i finally understood the purpose by the end. it was to raise awareness about the problem of prostitution anoung women. i though that this was a strong message that needs to be talked about more, but all the men looked ver disappointed. some looked ashamed, but most just looked flat out disappointed. i think that once u get to the end it was a very good way of starting a conversation that may be hard for others to talk about. though many problem are just ignored and set aside these da...

it started as  just another average day  went to school, came home with nothing to say got home late and decided to turn on the news. after that it wasn’t just an average day  the second that bright screen flickered on i saw those words and my world went grey 17 dead, i didn’t know what to say  17 dead, how many more must pay

overall i enjoyed this movie very much, even though it was quite different than our classes movie. in their movie you could definitely easily tell who’s character was who’s, and they kept it steady through out the whole movie. it was entertaining to watch and i enjoyed the music they picked. in this silent movie all the actors had really good facial expression. their face easily told the entire story. i also really enjoyed the music they picked while editing. i though it was very fitting and complimented the acting well. i also liked the comedy aspect of this movie, it made me laugh. one thing i think they could have done better would have been editing. if they had added in another sound affect here and there, or some words at the bottom i think it would have added more humor. all in all i really enjoyed their movie.

This silent movie project was a very eye opening experience for me. It was a entire new set of skills needed in order to produce the final product. Since no words could be used, we had to really work on our facial expressions, camera angle, and staging. When we were filming I had to constantly remind myself FACE FACE FACE not WORDS WORDS WORDS. I think one thing we did well with was each character was very unique, and each had a very funny and special quirk. These quirks made the overall movie very funny. Whenever one of the would “Wipeout”, it had a taste of their personally in it. This made it so interesting to watch. In my opinion it was so hard not to use words. In everyday life when you want someone to know something you say it. But in this project you couldn’t. If you wanted the audience to know something you had use your face to say it. This was a very new and difficult skill for me to grasp. Another aspect I really enjoyed about this project was process of it all coming toget...

This scene project taught me a lot of things as the process went by. When we first chose our scene, I knew that this would be something new for me. Working with more than one person on a comedic scene. In the end though, it was one of my favorite project we had done. I though in this scene we did a good job of all interacting together well. At first I thought this would be difficult since the host talked to both contestants separately. But in the end we did a good job at incorpering everyone at most times. It was very fun to work on this aspect. Deciding where the other contestant could cut in and make a snarky comment. I also thought we did a good job of memorizing our lines. It's was a long scene compared to what we had previously done. But all things considered we were able to remember our lines and keep the scene moving in a funny way. I think one thing we could have worked on was making sure our bodies were more towards the camera. At some points it was difficult to see a pers...

Les Miserables Review I had the pleasure to view Cheshire Academy's production of Les Miserables, written by Claude-Michel Schoenberg and Alain Boublilon on Friday February 23 in the Black Box Theatre. Les Miserables starts with a man named Jean Valjean. After serving 19 years for stealing bread, he is released by Inspector Javert. Once he is released he meets a young girl Fantine, a young girl left to take care of a child. Soon after she is forced to leave her child in someone else's care in order to find work to afford the child, she becomes ill. While on her death bed she asks Valjean to care for her daughter, Cosette. The next we see Cosette living in a brothel house where she is being treated very poorly by the masters of the house. Once Valjean finds Cosette, he pays to get her away from the house. Years later Valjean changes his name and becomes mayor of the town. As a young lady, a man named Marius catches sight of her and instantly falls in love. Sadly though, this...