Task 3 - Creating and Developing a Physical Theatre response to Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Creating and Developing a Physical Theatre Response to Shakespeare's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Notes: Initial Group Ideas and What You Completed in the Workshops To help brainstorm our ideas we carried out a paper carousel exercise. This is where we had three large sheets of paper, each titled ‘Physical Theatre’, ‘Me!’ and ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’. In three teams we rotated pieces of appear until by the end every group and every group member has added something to each piece of paper. This revealed what we thought are strengths were (as an ensemble and as individuals), the strengths of physical theatre, and what we think a production of ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ needs in order to succeed. One of the key things that emerged was our collective interest in the way the original play presents an antithesis between the natural and supernatural world and also between moral and immoral actions. This exercise definitely helped us to recall what we already know about the p...