Today was the last day of the Shakespeare camp. So it was a day filled with excitement and sadness. I will probably see most of these students again because they will be in other camps but I will probably not be working with them again (at least this summer) because this is my first and last high school aged camp.
The excitement was for our performance for their parents. The showing was at 3:30pm, so we had since 9am to work on things for the show. We worked on the Shakespeare song parody (which are what the pictures are above) then we worked on scenes and then we just rehearsed the show over and over again (with some theatre games thrown in there as well).
The show was really fun and really good. I believe every student took something incredible away from this week. We learned a lot about parodies, Shakespeare, acting and friendship (awwww).
I feel so fortunate to have work with Leah (the awesome teaching artist). She really knows what she is doing and really works well with high schoolers. We have the same sort of philosophy about theatre and children (treat them like adults, like they know what they are doing and that they are serious about it. Because they are). I have this philosophy but I don't always act on it, so the methods she used that supported this philosophy, I know I will use in my theatre teaching in the future.
Awesome plans for the weekend:
Saturday: Sleeping in!!! YAY! At night I am going with some CTC interns and staff to see The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (AKA Sweeney Todd) at the Minnesota Centennial Showboat in St Paul. It is a theatre troupe from the University of Minnesota. They gave CTC free tickets to give to their interns and staff! So I am excited and not sure what else to expect, except what I just typed. So it should just be a fun outing with people from CTC.
Sunday: I am helping out CTC with the Stone Arch Bridge Festival in St Paul from 10am to 6pm. We have a booth and we are doing crafts and playing games. There are going to be other interns there and it should be, of course, enjoyable!
Videos of the song parodies. (They are less than 30 seconds because they are on my cell phone and it doesn't take videos longer than that!) Enjoy! They are song parodies about Romeo and Juliet!!!
First video is a parody of "Bohemian Rhapsody" by Queen. The second video is a parody of "Jar of Hearts" by Christina Perri. And the last two videos are the parody of "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey.
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