Unit 3/4 Vinegar tom / Silent movie/ my rehearsal

VINEGAR TOM: A 1976 play by Caryl Churchill. As well as the added anachronism of the actors, who performed the songs in modern dress, despite the fact that the play was set in the 17th century. This play is about women's  Rights Act in 1970 and explored the thought that women were treated unequally to men in England, both at the time in which the play takes place, and the time in which the play was written.

PLOT: This play is about a girl named Alice who is in her twenties in a small village she with her mother is accused of Witchcraft. Witches back than were old poor single cunning or skilled to help temper social unrest. Alice is sexually discriminated because she had sexual intercourse without marriage and if your not married than you will get "prostitute" shamed and will be called and known as a witch

 

The opening of the play shows a woman who is in her early 20s and a character named, simply, Man. Rather than individualizing the character 'Man' by giving him a name, Churchill uses a shorthand, story-telling technique, as used by Brecht, in order to show a 'type'  to the audience. By 'distancing' the character in this way, the audience is more likely to think about the situation or issue rather than become over-absorbed in who the characters are. 

CARYL CHURCHILL

BORN: 3rd September 1938

OCCUPATION: playwright

NATIONALITY: British

Caryl was born in London England after the second world war she and her family emigrated to Montreal Quebec Canada where she attended Trafalgar school for girls. She returned to England to attend universality in 1956 and graduated in 1960  While raising a family in the 1960s and 1970s, Churchill began to write short radio dramas for BBC Radio. These included The Ants (1962), Not, Not, Not, Not Enough Oxygen (1971), and Schreber's Nervous Illness (1972). She also wrote television plays for the BBC, including The After-Dinner Joke (1978) and Crimes (1982). These, as well as some of her radio plays, have been adapted for the stage

She married barrister david harter in 1961 they have 3 sons that live in hackney east london

WITCHES AND WITCHCRAFT / 17 CENTURY:

Many faced capital punishment if they're a witch the punishment for this is either burning or hanging or beheaded if a woman was being accused of a witch the higher ups will tie her and throw her in the lake and if she drowned she is not a witch but if she was floating she is a witch but either way she still dies

Atleast 513 witches were put on trial between 1560 and 1700 and only 112 were executed 

HOW IT WAS / MY REHEARSAL

it was good considering i came college late all that matters was practise makes perfect and they practised until it got perfect for everybody to see.

KAI

My character that i played as was Man, he was a person who was a "gentleman" who compares and confuses him self about the devil. Man loved Alice but their relationship was controversial meaning that their relationship could change a lot due to emotion for example i would call Alice a "whore" but their relationship could mean something different 

MAN : A whore? take a whore with me?

Alice : I'm not that 

Paige 

Paige's character that she played as was Alice, Alice is in her twenties in a small village that she lives with a mother that is accused of Witchcraft.

Alice had Sexual intercourse with Man and because of this her reputation wasnt good and it was bad to the point Man would use that as a advantage against her 

Man : Didn't i lie on you so heavy I took your breath? didn't the enormous size terrify you

Alice : It seemed like a fair size like other "men"

MY REHEARSAL

 there will be times where my partner Paige wouldn't  be in class but for me is more of an advantage for me to learn my lines without disruption which could be anything. The only downside to that problem is Paige wouldn't learn her lines properly like i did so when she did come she did get stuck on some lines but sometimes i would help her to get through the problem we had.

We even practised after the lesson couple times to get it right and it did stress us a bit but the most important thing is we practised, practised and practised and we got it right.

the times Paige wasnt  in class i would also think about ways we could act out the scenes

ACTING TECHNIQUES

There're are many acting techniques but we learned and done Brecht's acting techniques In naturalistically or dramatic theatre the audience care about the lives of the characters onstage.

this was a good choice because even though it is not on the realism side it makes the audience think more about the character depict things realistically, but focused on determinism, or the inability of people to resist their circumstances.

SILENT MOVIE

Silent movies are movies that have no noise whatsoever During the silent era that existed from the mid 1890s to the late 1920s, a pianist, theatre organist or even, in large cities, a small orchestra would often play music to accompany the films. 

I personally done a silent movie which was 1 to 3 minutes long and i also got ideas on what to make and i had to think of ways to act it out and their was no noise of course because it would not been a silent movie.

In 1927, The Jazz Singer was the first feature length film to include sound. By the early 1930s, the silent film era was over as “talkies” became a theatre sensation. 

After 1927 the silent era was over because the first movie with sound came out and was published to the world to see.