Lyrics

The teacher gave us a song with a video to listen to, we had to think about what message the song was trying to get our attention to. From ust watching the video, I noticed only girls/women were present no boy/men. As the ladies were singing, the lyrics were all about women and what they do to pleasure men. When the video finished and I read the lyrics sheet, I realized that the lyrics is talking about how women have to do certain things in order to make a man happy; just love him and squeeze him and kiss him. Meaning some women can't be themselves around men, they only do what satisfy their needs. In the song it also points out that once you are 'his' he owns you, your his property. The women have to do all the effort to make men happy but the men would just expect girls to do it and not do anything in return.

Interpretation # 2

We had to listen to a song and interpret what the song might be about. As I was listening I noted down some words and sketches in my book that came to mind. As soon as the music started I got the sense of Italy, it was evident to me that the music was from Italy. I made a story taking place in Italy in a Pizza restaurant. A couple went out for lunch to celebrate their anniversary and the husband set up Italian musicians and dancers and called some friends to surprise her. As they were eating the musicians entered and music started playing and everyone was dancing around. When I pictured this, I kind of imagined mute people and no talking just movement. As the music got faster, people started getting happier. They started dancing in a line, then in a cirlce around the couple. The music towards the end got intense and deepend which made me think that something went wrong, all of a sudden the girl fainted and the music stopped.

We also did an interpretation exercise where we had to get into groups of 2 and the teacher would give us a theme, oppression was one. We had to come up with a look which represented this theme, so my team and I decided to be racist against arabs, 2 was lying on the floor and I and my partner was kicking and punching them at the same time smiling because we are doing a 'good' thing. Once we got the pose in place we had to freeze and the other team would look at us and see if they can guess what we are doing. When the teacher taps you on the shoulder you tell everyone how you feel in the moment. When I got tapped, I said I felt angry but happy at the same time because I hate Arabs since they're not white, in the moment. The difficulties I faced was when I was kicking the person I couldn't stay in place, I kept losing balance and also keeping in character and not laughing, I think I can improve my facial expression since it tells the story. We did another them, forbidden love. My team and I decided to do two families which hate eachother due to money problems, a rich and poor family which children were in love with eachother but I as a mother could not let my son date a rich child since we were poor. The two partners the mother and the daughter; the mother held the daughter from going to my son, and I also held my son back from her because they were madly in love. When I got tapped, I said I hate you! get your daughter away from my son, you filthy rich person. That time I was better at keep my face straight, however it's irritable staying in one place for so long. The difficulties is to think of something that you can do and make the other group know what you're doing.

1st October 2011

On this day we discussed a dolls house, we had to look at a picture of a dolls house and interpret what the play might be about. The dolls house itself, reminded me of when I was small and how I loved to play with barbies. I'd give them names and make them do what I always wanted to do, make my fantasies come to life. When I think of the word doll, I think of someone who has no emotions or is fake. Inside the house I noticed that there were a lot of people and wondered why there was only one bathroom and one bedroom. The one thing that was also strange was that there was no staircase leading to the second floor. The dolls were placed in difference sections of the house, they are doing different actions but not interacting with one another, this could be a sign that the family does not have a close relationship. Which is why I got the idea from seeing 5 pets in the house that maybe the pets are used to acompany someone, since the family is not there for eachother. There is a white fence surrounding the house, which could be to protect the kids and pets another possibility could be that the fence represents closure and they are trapped however the gate is opened. Afterwards we each got a different topic from Mrs. Morris, my topic was; does society's expectations prevent a parents indiviual growth. I went around asking my classmates what their opinion is, overall the anwers were that, No society's expectations do not prevent a parents individual growth because it depends on how the parents raise their children in their own way, so the expectations don't affect them but somewhat try and make them better parents.

Ppp

Colin presented to the class his Ppp. The puropose is to look up a play thats, Peony Pavilian in China. There is 55 scenes and the story is about a girl who was not allowed to go outside, so she would go and relax in her garden. While she's there she has a dream of a guy, that is surprisingely real. She really wants to dream and see him again. The girl dies of a disease due to not see him and then her family moves away. Her spirit came back to earth because she needs to find Ling mu mi so she can return back to life and be with him. Because she had a tutor he goes to her grave everyday and realizes one day that her body is missing and told her father. Ling mu mi travels to the city and then gets married and goes to the city to write the scholar exam and did the best. Her father goes to war. At the end the father says that the daughter is a demon but her mother however believe differently, she said she met her daughter and that she is real. The mother proves the father wrong and the father realizes that the daughter is real.
The theatre design has elaborate colours since they do not use a lot of props on set, mostly they use symbolism on stage. The dancers wear water sleaves it helps them with the rhythm of the music. All the music is played with tradititional chinese instruments. The actors wear a white base colour on the face and eye and mouth. The villians wear blue and black and the hero wears pink makeup around the eyes. They also wear lipstick and the heros have their hair pinned back which looks sophisticated as the villians have ther hair big and wild. There are young and old men, old men have beards. The stage used is as a percemian arch and not as a framed thrust. The musical instruments are unseen by the audience and is played offstage. The audience has a 270 degree view of front and side. The play is 55 scenes long and take a period of 2 days to complete, because of this the actors and directors have to remember where the actors were set, to start again the next day without the audience being confused. I found this really interesting, especially the time period it takes to get it done, I don't think I can sit and watch a play for 2 days. I like how the makeup and hair diffrientiates the good from the bad. And I think it's a brilliant effect to have all the costumes elaborate with a plain background and set. The color contrast must be good. I think it is very challenging to be one of the actors on stage and to improvise to use the props inorder for the audience to know what they are doing. All the memorization which also takes place must be very tough.