3/6/14 -> 21/7/14

That looks like a really big timespan to cover in one entry, but it actually includes the three-week school holidays as well. The reason all of these entries have been condensed into one is because all these lessons have focused on the same subject - our Surrealist assessment.

But before we get into that, the first lesson after the 3/6 was half-assignment but was also the lesson in which we performed our Absurdist extracts. So, some feedback on how that went from my perspective.

Travis was surprisingly cooperative throughout the performance itself, especially considering how uncooperative he was when we were practising. I only had to make one compromise to get him to actually perform decently and to say his lines and not my lines (or my lines and his lines), and that was to let him have free range during the section in which he was supposed to pace back and forth across the stage. Considering that previously I had had to let him perform the whole thing lying under a chair to get him to even come close to doing the right thing, the whole thing went rather well.

Now, the assessment. The task was to create a Surrealist performance based on one of a few stimuli. I am in a group with Karen, Jack, Kate McLeod and Liam (okay seriously Google Chrome, you can recognise all the other names fine but NO LIAM IS OBVIOUSLY NOT A WORD THAT EXISTS), and we chose to do our performance based on the idea of 'Heaven's Waiting Room'. Only later were we to find out that almost all the other groups had also chosen that one, but when some groups were asked to change their subject we stood firm and kept our stimulus. That sounded a little strange.

There really wasn't any clear divide between any of the different tasks we had to do - we just kind of worked on each one at the same time as the others and switched to some of the more theory-based tasks when Liam and Jack refused to cooperate, which they did surprisingly often for two people so committed to the subject of Drama. I must admit that I missed most of the script-writing as that took place over the holidays on Google Drive, and I was in Sulawesi with no internet connection whatsoever for that entire time, but I still feel that I managed to contribute significantly in other areas.

Well, tomorrow is the big performance. I guess that's when we find out if all our hard work (for some of us, others tended to not do quite so much hard work) has borne fruit or not.

Hm. This needs a picture.

There. Perfect.