What is children's theatre?
I feel that the main objective of children theatre is to help them think outside the box and to wonder. Also children's theatre is all about using different creative art techniques, for example, dance, music, art,musical theatre ect.
In my evaluative opinion It explains things to children in a creative way, it teaches them lesson about life or just lessons in general in a fun educational way.
Everything is eye catching and very vibrant. The colours help them to imagine , for example in when I went to watch Aladdin , and the villain jaffer came out the lights turned all dark and there was smoke feeling up the stage and it felt like suffocating feeling throughout his entrance.
It helped the children to know this is bad and this is good, therefore lighting is very important in children's theatre productions.
What skills does it take to be excellent children's theatre
To not care how you look and how silly you are to people. Live in the moment and dont try to act and commit to discovery because if you don't commit to discovery you will not know what to do , therefore you need to not feel but think.
Uses sounds to effluence your body, let the sounds and the body become one. Make sure you use non critical self awareness. You have to commit fully. Make sure you have 100% energy, if you are doing level 10 do level 10, if your doing level 1 do level 1 not level 10.
Makes sure you know your audience , know that this is my audience, and this how they are, for example little kids are always engeitic . More you body, make sure you experiment with vocal placement. Make sure you improvise and don't keep do the same thing because that means your not in the moment , which means your not committed.
You need to be able to your space, even if you are on three side.make sure ou understand the audiences perspective. Make sure you neutral and make sure you always ready to more. Make a connection with the audience, make sure you involve the audience. Make them feel like they are in a another world or in a different place.
Make sure you connect with your inner child which is creative and free, has no worrys. Be controlled and engaging
An evaluative comment
In my option if you do not try make eye contact and truly connect either the audience they will get bored and zone out. Epically children because they find it hard to stay concentrated.
The star of tension helps you to bring people into the zone.
Homework: How would you adapt an issue for a audience for 2-3 years about facts about tigers
Someone could be saying the facts and people could be acting it out as they say it . So the children don't lose focus from just listing to the facts.
I have noticed that children find it hard to pay attention, therefore I believe that if we have creative pictures or tiger mask that maybe arts strand could make to keep to keep are audience engaged. Also to give them something to look at to lower the chance of them being distracted or zoned out.
In addition, I think if we have picture of tigers and masks, we don't make them to scare because they are only 2-3 years. 2-3 years old get scared really quickly and cry over almost everything.
Therefore, in my opnion I think we should have a research class to analyse and evaluate the key point of performing children's theatre to very young children of the age of 2 - 3 years old.
I think we should all have are only little groups and think of ideas for little peoples day, when we have throught of ideas our groups should suggest are ideas to the rest of the class because this way we find the best ideas quickly and more effectively and for the benefit of the audience.
Video on Patte smith
Research Patte smith and William Blake. Patte smith was inspired by William Blake. William Blake was inspired by his younger brother Robert, Robert died at a young age, William kept Roberts sketch book and wrote his most amazing poems in it.
The words and poem is to difficult for a 2-3 year old to listen too. It's to scary for little children, they may feel scared, also there should be more them one person saying it. It need to not be so rhetorically.
We could layer in some sounds like a triangle because this could make the audience more engaged.
The rhythm is not modern, also the tiger who came to tea is also not modern at all.
•Make sure you Don't think, you feel that's being a good children's performers.
•Energy needs to flow through the performers
•Each movement and word need to express,for example like "am a slimy frog"
•We need to make sure we actual play to all sides of we are playing to all sides.
•You need to remember singing is just speaking with extended voules.
The song is like a dark hymn. The most of the whole song is about Gods creation of animals through a dis-embody sprit.
It says "Did he who made the lamb make thee?" This Is talking about God or a spiritual being and how the spiritual being created life and the earth. This song maybe boring to children's theatre because it's kind of sad and dull, therefore we should try to make it more happy.
1)what task did you do in the lesson today to with the tiger who came to tea?
Learning about a poet called Patte smith. We also looked at a poem about a tiger by Patte smith . We learnt to sing and to turn something evil into something for little children.
If you want to sing high think low and if you want to sing low sing high.
We started to make a human pyramid , therefore i learnt that I need to have trust in other people and they need to have trust me. This help us in the process of "The tiger who came to tea" because it taught us we need to have trust in are fellow actor and also that we need to make we work calm and slowly because it's dangerous to just jumping or off somebody's back or spine, It could result into a big problem.
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