Five key points of DFTA;
1. Circus has no money left to perform shows and clown has just died
2. School children on the bunk come to get there money back and invade privacy
3.Children want to help put on a show and try to persuade Missy to agree
4. Missy finally agrees but they think they have no talent to put into the show
5. Finally they create a whole new show that hits book office records and they don't get shut down
Sparks Circus is on its way down. The owners have been forced to sell their star attraction Tiny the elephant and a rival circus is poaching their artistes. With a busy bank holiday weekend approaching, it’s down to acrobatic twins Zack and Missy to fill the house and stop their family business from going under. When a local gang of bored youths volunteers to help them, the twins are faced with the task of training an un-trainable mob in circus skills.
The style of the play is reflected from today's society, it speaks volume about the demise of good old fashioned family entertainment which struggle to capture audiences attention away from modern audience who have seen it all before on HD on there 50" plasma TVs. This expressed through comedy elements with a broad style of talents shown in act 3.
Rachel decided to do an exercise with us to help with learning lines and character building. This was done simply by her asking us a question, and us answering the question with a line from our script or any other line from the play. Evidenced below.
Highlighted lines - My scripted lines
Non highlighted lines - Are NOT my lines
What does my character say about other characters?
- Pinhead
- I cant do nothing without Midge
- He wants angel to lay an egg with him
What your character says about themselves?
- Im a bunny rabbit
- I want to see the rest of the show
- We make trouble
- We on strike
- I'll lose my pocket money if my mum finds out
- I cant do nothing without Midge
What other people say about my character?
- Shut up
- They closed the show you mushroom
What the stage directions say?
- Billy clowns around for the benefit of Midge and Lula who share headphones on an ipod and sing tunelessly to whatever song they're playing.
- Shows his phone to Midge and Lula
This is a brilliant task to help me engage with my script, helping to learn my lines as well as understanding the stage directions given to myself and others.
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Role Play - Gangs and Crimes
In our DFTA script most of my class mates and myself play a part in a very large gang, dominating Ben and Amy. To get across this picture we needed to act like a gang before people believe we are. We made an exercise where we could help our character for this scenario. The exercise involved us to get into small groups participating and demonstrating a shared experience in which a member of your group has had to do with the confrontation of either gangs or crime.
As evidenced above, I felt this made me gain an understanding on gangs and the feelings Ben and Amy should feel in the confrontation scenes. This has created character and knowledge for myself on gang culture as well as exploring the feelings and damage gained from the bad behaviour that occurs from gangs, which i can portray in my performance.
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Research - 'Circus Clown Acts' / Mimes that are achievable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMJGkrs2WkA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecznw1ZnHZE
Both links above show example of mime acts, this helps me to inspire and conjure up ideas for ACT 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMJGkrs2WkA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecznw1ZnHZE
Both links above show example of mime acts, this helps me to inspire and conjure up ideas for ACT 3
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