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Mirror Games: how to become an actor in three hours!

17février

A few weeks ago, we went to see a theatre play in English in Palaiseau. It was written by Dennis Foon and deals with youngsters' issues: love, schoolwork, violence... I enjoyed it and thought theatre was indeed the best way to send messages raising those problems. 

Last Thursday, the director, Andrew Wilson, and Luc, an actor of the play, came to see us and we did a workshop together. I really enjoyed it, although we sometimes had to face our shyness, we finally managed to play a character of the play we had chosen. Each of us played a short part of the play and we laughed a lot.

At the end, we learnt how to slap each other as actors do. This was my favourite part of the workshop, because I was allowed to slap Manon, at last, something I had been waiting for since almost the beginning of the year! (and M. Bouquerel always prevented me from doing it, which was a real pain!)

I will keep some great souvenirs of this workshop!

Léa

Workshops !

17février

Following a play we saw, Mirror Game, the director Andrew Wilson came with one of the actors. With them, we practised different activities.

First, we did relaxation exercises, then we had to play a character from the play,  and we were given different improvisations to do.

Finally, the actor taught us to give a slap. 

I enjoyed this session because Mr Andrew Wilson was a professional who knew how to speak to teenagers, so the atmosphere was very pleasant.

Thérèse.

 

How to give a fake slap? By Manon Murray.

17février

INTRUCTIONS TO FAKE A SLAP (advice from Luc, Mirror Game actor)

1) Stand face to face, about a metre away from each another.

2) The slapper stretches and raises his arm like you're about to give a slap to someone who's taller than you.

3) The slapper pretends to give a slap to the other person. His hand comes very near to his face (it's a " / "movement).

4) A bit more difficult: the person who gets slapped has to be on perfect timing: he has to clap in his hands at the same time the slapper pretends to slap him.

5) At the same time, the other person turns his head like he just got slapped (eventually falls to the ground if it's a really big one).

Don't forget: the timing is extremely important, it won't look realistic if the person who gets slapped doesn't clap his hand at the same time he's supposed to get slapped.

UPCOMING: A video of Léa slapping Manon ("I've wanted to do this for six months!") Be patient.

 

Manon :)

(Actually I can't put a video here, too bad...)

Mirror game Workshop : Mané Alexanian, Charlotte Bekache

17février

For three hours, we did many activities.

First we started with warm up exercices for our voices, it was very interesting to work with a drama professional because he gave us a lot of advice to relax and he gave us confidence for further work.

At the beginning everyone was quite intimidated by his presence but after few minutes everyone was ready to work.

Mr Wilson told us to choose a character from the play and to embody this character, and he told us to choose a partner and to play the scene we wanted to play in front of other students. At first it was intimidating but after a while they really managed to give us confidence.

Finally Luc and Mr Wilson taught us how to slap someone on stage. It was very funny because we really gave the impression that we were slapping someone...

We really want to thank Mr Wilson and Luc for coming.

Mané Alexanian & Charlotte Bekache

The super workshop

17février

On Thursday 27th January we had a theatre workshop in English. Andrew Wilson, the director of the play "Mirror Game" and an actor Luc Baboulène were the leaders of the workshop.

We enjoyed the workshop a lot! At the beginning we didn't really know what we were doing, but after a while we felt really calm. The workshop was fun, especially the warming up. After the warming up we felt relaxed and it was easier to do the other exercises. We liked a lot the exercise, where we were in groups holding fingers and turning around.

The most challenging exercises were the group exercises, where we had to walk in the middle of the circle and freeze in our character. We were a bit surprised that we acted so little in front of the others, but we liked all the other exercises we did, however. It was also nice to speak English, as we didn't feel pressure. Andrew and Luc encouraged us by making us laugh and making us relaxed.

Maija and Mohamed

The workshop, estelle bontemps

17février

A few days ago, we were lucky enough to welcome Andrew Wilson (the director of Mirror Game) and Luc (an actor in the play).

First, we started to speak about the play we had seen before, then we practised some little warm up exercises. At the beginning, the students were a little bit shy, but after some training, we became more and more interested in the workshop.

The director asked us to choose a character from the play, and then we played some extracts of Mirror Game.  

It was very interesting to play some extracts of a play we had seen before, it was different and funny. Everybody got into the spirit of the game.

Then Luc taught us how to pretend to slap someone. Many students didn't know how to do it, and they were excited to discover such a secret.

I think all my classmates enjoyed the drama workshop, and it was very nice from Luc and Andrew to come to Rabelais high school to meet us.

 

Funny Thursday

17février

Last week, we did an English workshop with the director of Mirror Game and Luc, an actor of the play, the one who played Luke. First of all we warmed our voices and did exercises, the aim was to relax ourselves.

Then we started to get into one character's shoes, we tried to feel as if we were this charater and tried to feel like him/her. Our attitude, and the way we were walking was changing, it was interesting to try to guess which characters the other people had chosen without talking with them,  and to  keep the attitudes of our characters.

We did a circle and one by one walked inside with one character's attitude. it was interesting because Luc always went further in interpretation because it's his job and he feels more self confident than us. 

At the end, we worked on a difficult part of the actor's work: performing violent scenes on the stage. We pretended that we were giving slaps to each other but it was not real. Despite his age, Andrew Wilson was really close to us.

Laure               

Thank you everybody!

17février

Many thanks to all of you for your reviews about Dr Jekyll and articles about the drama workshop. It was a pleasure to read them, and I'm delighted to see how much you enjoyed the workshop.Have a good holiday, everybody, wherever you are, at home, travelling or on the ski slopes...is there any snow, by the way???

Looking forward to seeing you after the holidays...but not too soon. Let's all enjoy the break.

Christine Pavard

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