Today we began working on scenes from A Midsummer Night's Dream with the larger NBHS class. We began class with a quick warm-up involving stretches and tongue twisters that the students seemed reluctant to do, but it definitely helped bring everyone (teachers included) back from the long weekend. The class broke into groups to attack three different scenes, and the work of the first read-through commenced. It was wonderful to see students get increasingly excited about deciphering difficult language and finding the meaning of each line as their characters' circumstances became clearer to them. We'll keep working on these for at least the next week, really delving into acting and staging for the first time next class.
John and I are off to rehearse for an unusual acting gig. We are performing a play as part of a training session with the school of nursing at Rutgers. Should be an adventure. More tomorrow.
-jen
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