Category: Communication
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Comparison between Hamlet’s Soliloquy & “On My First Son” by Ben Jonson
Hamlet Soliloquy HAMLET: To be, or not to be–that is the question: Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune Or to take arms against a sea of troubles And by opposing end them. To die, to sleep– No more–and by a sleep to say we end The…
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What is “On My First Son” By Ben Jonson about
Original Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy; My sin was too much hope of thee, lov’d boy. Seven years tho’ wert lent to me, and I thee pay, Exacted by thy fate, on the just day. O, could I lose all father now! For why Will man lament the state he should…
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Drama – How does “This Flesh is Mine” relate to Greek Tradegy
I believe that “This Flesh is Mine” relates to Greek tragedy mainly due to its ending and the amount of people who die in the end, Mainly the guard while trying to rape Briseis and Achilles when he is driving away in his car and the car bomb inside kills him. The piece is also…
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Drama – Mine and Dillon’s Performance
Hello Everyone Mine and Dillon’s GCSE performance is now available to watch at http://white10d.teacher.edutronic.net/this-flesh-is-mine-final-performance/ You can also find other great performances by other students in my Drama GCSE class here aswell
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Drama – Reflection of my performance
When I look back at my drama piece I believe it was quite successful in a number of different ways, including the symbolism of the old versus the new approach to the piece which when I look back at the performance was very easy to look at and make a connection which meant that when…
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Drama – My Change in character
In the piece I changed my character quite late in the process of the work due to unfortunate circumstances , However I believe this worked in my favour because I found that by changing from Act 1 Scene 1 to Act 2 Scene 5 and Achilles to Agamemnon who as a character I understand more…
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Drama – Use of Props, Lighting and Sound in our piece
In the performance the main props was the mobile phone which was in the original script and we decided to keep in as it worked with the whole semiotics of the piece, it rings twice at the beginning which shows that Agamemnon is getting annoyed at his phone going off while he is working and…
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Drama – Use of spacing in our Performance
In our performance we used spacing to our advantage by having the guard stand nearer to Agamemnon than somebody who is scared would stand next to somebody who they are afraid off. We used this to symbolise that the guard has some in kind of stronghold to Agamemnon and isn’t completely afraid off him, this…
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Drama – Employment of process from other practitioners
For our performances we used Stanislavski’s system and in particular two ideas of his including the given circumstances e.g.: What the actor has been though and his current motive and thoughts and the “magic if” which is what I would do if I was in the circumstances in which the character I was playing is…
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Drama – Choice of costumes and Semiotics in our performance
In myself and Dillon’s piece we decided to wear costumes that clashed with each other to represent a semiotic of the old clashing with the new, so in other words the trojan war and Palestine Israeli conflict which are to very similar conflicts are from two different times of history. My costume was a bed…