PAUCARTAMBOOOOO

we presented a play very similar to the ones in paucartmabo. we prepared a ppp for this play a couple of moths ago and we finally presented it. my task for this play was costumes, it was easy to work this because we planned it and most of the costume was already in school because they did this type of presentation last year. it did fail in some aspects, neither mauricio or carlos brought their costumes complete until the day of the presentation and the costumes didnt match the design or each other.

this paucartambo plays are all about energy, it doesnt really matter what the play is about, but it has to have a very high level of energy. That was a really weak point for us, if the people from VI hadnt come to help us with the presentation it would have been a complete fail. The convention is that the presentation takes place for 3 days, we planned 3 days but because of lack of organization we did just 2 days.

our story evolved around useless authorities, we used the wayra as the authority. we did this to represent the in justice of the authorities in school and peru and the world in general, authorities are supposed to help their people, but they dont.

the 1 day i was the chola waka waka who was grazing her bull and qollas come and steal the bull from her and tie her to a pole. There is a poster of the wayra and i go and ask him for help, of course he does nothing, he is a poster, but we did this to represent the actual intention. The problems with this 1 day were not only the energy, but the amount of people there. at first i had to run through the kiosk tables with pineda (bull) but there were so many people that it was impossible to go through, other thing we didnt expect were the small kids from nido and lower school who were there, they stepped into the basketball court and run with us, it was very complicated because the mask limits your sight so it was difficult not to hit one of them with my whip. Also, the poster of the wayra flew, it was supposed to be sicked to the ground but it wasnt and by the time i was supposed to complain with him the audience could see or understand what i was doing.

the 2 day was planned to be just the V students, but we knew the energy was even lower than the 1 day so we decided to incorporate the qollas. i was again the chola waka waka who was tied in the pole and the wayra comes out with the saqras who were like the guards. the first thing i would have changed were the costumes that were horrible.
the qollas have a much higher energy than the other characters so when we did the sequence of our actions, the qollas were playing with the audience, so they didnt really payed any attention to us. that was i think the harder task of the 2 day to catch the audience attention over the qollas. i think the sequence we did in the 2 day was much better, we didnt make as much mistakes as we did in all rehearsals.

i think we did lack rehearsals, more responsibility in costumes, masks, props and scenery, and also in direction. i think we all lack organization, the costumes were not complete, the scenery wasnt complete, the masks were badly put, props were missing. over all i think more commitment would be essential, better rehearsals and more energy.

Hebras

last friday we saw a play called Hebras directed by robbie, it was performed in the school theatre.
the stage was not the regular stage, the curtains were closed leaving a closed stage inside. the chairs for the audience were in circle and the actors acted in the center and one single light illuminated the actors from above. i came late to see the play, but i was told the actors were in still picture when they got there. i know it was the same pose as like they ended, it was twist and bend, both actors crossed one over the other. They first things that come to my mind when i think of this pose is that it was very complicated to do, but the actors made it easy, the mood this brought to the atmosphere was great because you could feel the tension but at the same time you could feel the softness of the connection between them. This first image gives an idea, but not a complete concept, does this makes it an incomplete first impression? what would a good first impression require?
the play was played by two actors, a man and a woman. this gave me a hint of what the concept would be, love.

There was no speaking, it was a play without script, just like our supermarket, it all came to actions, but not face expressions because they were wearing white, plain-expression masks. The white masks were a very important factor when it came to building the atmosphere, for me it represented lack of personality, or it could be representing all human kind divided in women and men. The interaction of both characters along the play only gave me one concept, love, and indeed it was. most of the time the man was controlling the woman, making her clean, using her as a puppet, oppressing her, but there were moments were they both were free and connected with the audience and with each other only by the actions.
one thing i thought worked very well were the movement and velocity of the actions, there were tense movements followed by slow and clam ones. for example, when the man, rollie made the woman, luciana clean they played with speeds. the change of speeds really gives the actions more meaning and strength.

the meaning of the actions were supported by the sound of violins, all the play was accompanied by violins, there were short moments of tension were there was no music too, but it was most accompanied with violins. Another sound that helped with the atmosphere was the breathing of the actors, because they had a mask, we couldnt see their face expressions, but we saw a lot of body language and we kind of listened to the story by their breathing. the collide of the air coming from their mouth and nose with the mask created a lot of different sounds which i interpreted like words. there were some sobbing, breathing which heard like crying, other like laughing, other like if they were in pain. all the breathing sounds really helped with the story itself and the atmosphere.
there were no props in the play other than each other, but, the mask other than giving a meaning, it helps the audience not get distracted from the most important things in this play, which were the body expressions.

the story was very clear, it was a couple who had some problems in their relationship, like abuse which was shown when the rollie used luciana as a puppet, but there were also moments where the audience could tell how committed they were to each other, like the part when they exchanged hearts. as i said they used no props so they used their hands to represent the heart, you couls almost see the heart, they made as if they were holding the heart and pumped their fingers as if the heart was pumping. the basic key of creating a play like this i think is a lot of discipline, because it doesnt only require imagination, but a lot of physical effort to make all this actions, i could see how demanding this physical theater is, the actors ended up sweating a lot and to do this again and again while rehearsing, which it requires a lot i suppose, demands a lot of energy, discipline and effort.

the actors ended the play with the same position as they started , crossed over, mixed. it had a completely different meaning than at the beginning of the play, it was a more complete idea and understanding.
when it ended we talked with the actors and the director this helped a lot because we could ask questions, i could hear a lot of different ideas of what the play ment, that got me thinking, is it save to make a play with no words, no face expression and so not obvious, if you know that the audience will appreciate it in different ways??

supermarket

we did a small play that lasted 5 min, for the arts evening. The play was mute and in slow motion. We had to work a lot with our body and face expressions as well as with our rhythm. Because we made no use of words, our face and body had to express it all. It was hard for me to explore faces, to change my expressions for example. When it came to body language it was even more difficult for me, because of the slow motion. I had to have a balance to make all movements in slow motion and when i tried to do something like lifting one of my feet and staying standing on one foot and kneeling to the front it turn very difficult to keep balance. Other very difficult thing for me was the rhythm. All the play moved around one music that gave the sense of being under water so our movements became slow and heavy. It was difficult to keep this pace because we had to act it with other people. For example when i walked with Mauricio we had to walk at the same time, but there were moments where he did it a little bit faster, so i had to keep up with his fast pace and that is when it looked not very coordinated.

MEDEA.... y otro calato

Medea is a greek tragedy, in this case was preformed as a more contemporary play. The characters where kept the same, with their same characteristics. The design concept was changed, it was modern, the scenery of the play was simple, it started with a very street like look with the monologue from the nodriza, they even included a cigarette. This scenery changed when the Chorus was introduced, the idea of the chorus was kept the same, the woman all dressed in white tided up to an element to keep the idea of a whole. The actors made use of the theater stage a lot, this was because the stage was very small, but i didnt like that idea, i dont like when the actors mix SO much with the audience. The costumes of the characters where also modern for example Egeo, was dressed as a motorcycle rider, with leader pants and jacket, and a huge beard. I think he was represented in that way because in the play he is presented as a traveler in this case he comes from speaking with the "horáculo". Then, the nodriza is kind of a nanny for Meda´s children and like a maid in the house, she was dressed as a secretary, with a skirt and a blazer. This all represent the greek characters in our society. Medea was dressed with a bra, broken panties , no shoes and messy hair, this would represent the humiliation and disgrace she was going through.
The lights i didnt like, at one point of the play, when the chorus was talking the lights went intense, but in yellowish tones, but it was too yellow, i would have chosen a lighter color, with more white. Then, some colors of light they used didnt contrast well with the colors of the scenery making it look awkward. The sound effects where good, there was always a background music playing, sometimes very loud and sometimes you could barley hear it, but it worked.
The monologues where sometimes heavy, the one done by the nodriza was very nicely done, she used a great intonation, intentions, and use of her body to express the feelings. Medea also worked a lot of monologues. I would have shortened some of them, because it got heavy after a while. The characters i didnt like where Jason and Creonte. They both didnt have intonation at all, it was also the same tone of voice it was very boring. They didnt have chemistry with the other characters, i think because they didnt explore enough their character in action with the others. I think they lacked a lot of character building, most of all voice and body work.
In my opinion the play would have been better if the male character would have worked more with their voice and body.
But, would the play had been lighter if, despite the character building, the monologues would have been cut?

my kabuki play

my kabuki play is called KASANE, its original name is Kesakake Matsu Narita no Riken , it is a dance drama, this means that almost all the play is build of dances. The play has 2 main character who are Kasane, the beautiful young woman and Yoemon, the handsome young samurai. The play is about this couple who intend to die together, but when they were about to die, a skull with a sickle stuck in the eye socket floats by. Yoemon recognizes it as the very one with which he long ago slayed a man called Suke.What Yoemon doesnt know is that Suke is Kasane´s father. Two police men arrive and accuse Yoemon for the murder of Suke, as this is happening, the soul of Suke possess Kasane. Yoemon had to kill her with the sickle and then tries to flee. But her ghost beckons, then drags him back to the scene of this crime, where his dead love lays ghostly her hands on him.

Music is very important in this Kabuki plays, for example starting the play there is a stage direction that says, "A drum pattern represents a rain shower." There are no sounds which are taped, all the representations of nature sounds etc are produced a live. This is for the audience to feel the music closer to the play and to feel the vibrations of the music also helps when the audience tries to get really into the play.
Also singing is important, all the first plart of the play is sang. It is used as an introduction for the play, it speaks of love, the setting of the play, a little bit of the characters, it is all used as a type of narrator. All this is for preparing the audience get into the atmosphere.
The text is very simple, there is a plain dialogue between the characters, because what its important in Kabuki plays are the actions, which are described very well in the stage directions, also the costumes and make-up.
The actions are very repeated. Very often the characters say something and then act it, this in our type of theater would look bad, is called "mantequilla sobre grasa", we look to avoid it, in Kabuki they look to do it. For example: "I had not a hint of the true deepness of your heart." (He holds his hands at his chest, suggesting his heart.)
I think they do so because they want for the audience to understand the important actions, like this one.
This is the reason why the choreography is so important, almost all the play is represented more than through words, but through actions. The actors have to be also dancers, all they say have to be somehow represented by difficult actions.

I think the choreography part will be the difficult part next year with the play...

KABUKI!!!

Japanese theater, Kabuki is all about actions. I haven´t deeply researched about it yet, but i know that the text is very simple and basic. The actors have to have extravagant costumes, and in most cases make-up and wigs. The main theme all the plays share are spirits, warriors, a little romance and fights. All the fights in Kabuki are choreographed, almost all the play is choreographed, i will be in charge of this on the play of next year. The costume and the choreography come hand with hand when it comes to production. That is what i am basing my research on. It depends a lot on the fabric and design of the costume with the dances and steps of the choreography to work.
All Kabuki plays are very visual, they have to have a lot of colors, big impacting images like scenery and props. Usually this plays need a runway extension on the stage for the characters to dance.
I have a lot more research to make, focusing more on costumes and dancing.

the stumulus i choose was the planetary system. I have thought of two similar stories i could use for my PPP.

the story has two options, one is a family of 1o people counting the sun, i havent create the story completely, the other option is use the little mermaid story, because she has a lot of sister and i could apply the planets characteristics to each mermaid.
as the picture shows, i would like to use each planet to represent one person, this person will acquire the characteristics of the planet. For example, the person which embodies the sun will be called Summer, or Sam, it will be warm and eccentric because the sun is hot and the biggest star. Or saturn, i wanted to do this person down, because is so different to all the rest with its huge ring.
i havent thought well about the story itself, but i think it will be staged on the countryside, and the family doesnt have a lot of money.it will be a way of presenting theatre based on the theorist Stanislavski's ideas.

ONE ACT PLAY

METAMORPHOSIS
the play was perfomed by the Cambridge. The play was based on a book, but the play was badly produced. First the backstage crossed every 10 seconds in front of the actors. i dont know if it was planned that way, but it looked messy. There were 5 actors. A family composed of a mother, father, son and daughter. and the boss of the boy. The father i think was the best actor of the play, he worked with his voice, played with his costume, he worked with his body and had a loud clear pronjecting voice. The mother, the daughter, the son and the boss didnt use their body enough. they offten interrupted other actors texts and said their texts wrong. i think the son needed a lot more work in characterization. they used wooden frames to simbolize things i couldnt understand. if i could re make the play, i definitely would change the mothers voice, the boy´s acting, review the cues and wouldnt allow the back stage on stage at any moment, use more clear scenery and worked more with spaces and color.

MARY POPPINS
the play was performed by the Flemming. we one thing i thought it was great about the play was the energy the actors had. The play was terrible, the text, the acting, the scenery everything, but it had a very high energy level. The actors i thik lack concentration, volume of the voice, pronunciation, and body expression. The script was too torn, i think the idea of the origins of mary poppins was to away from focus. the idea of mary poppins being latina didnt worked very well, i would´ve changed that content.
other thing i would work on would be the scenery, when they dropped the cloth to represent the woods and a boy "runned" towards it, it seemed too fake, not real. The actions and intentions worked on the play werent clear.

BE MY BABY
this play was performed by the san silvestre. The content of the play wasn´t very intresting, a house full of tennagers pregnat isnt a theme i would pick. The acting in this play was way betten that¡n Cambridge´s and Flemming´s. There was a very important thing that failed with this play, the volume of voice was so low i could bearly hear what they were saying. i constantly had to ask people what did the actress said! The scenery was simple, but changed constantly. The worke with the lights fufilled its purpose, but there were too many blackouts, every 2 minutes there was a blackout,. this i think tired the audience.
I would work with the volume and pronancuiation, cut some useless scenes which created unnecesary blackouts

porque tiene pajarito y esta embarazado!!!!!

the play halcon de oro, qorihuaman was a play difficult to understand, but at the end it all became evident. the most important facts for the play, were light and sound effects and the body language. it started with one man painted white, he looked crazy, he was shirt-less, a broken military shorts, no shoes and had a bandage in one of his knees. all there was in the stage was a metallic bed and the man. the mimics were also important, there was a time, my favorite part (technique part), when he rolled through the wall, but the wall was imaginary, he was touching the air, but it looked as if it was real solid wall. the use of costumes and masks are very important too. this man represents three different characters, himself, his mother and an uccucu. as he represents his mother, he gets pregnant after the baby was born he is taken away from his mother. a mystic character, every time this mystic character appears, the man changes of character. after, the mystic character comes once again and leaves the costume of the uccucu. the man flips all his emotions and represents a jubilee,instead of the feeling of being lonely and abandoned. once again the mystic character comes when the man has become the first personality he had at the start of the play, ensaine, he is hanging from the celling with the bed. the mystic character gives him two white flags which he puts on the bed and makes the bed spin, he stands before the mystic character and this tells him something with the look, the play didnt contain any words, the man takes all his cloths off and naked just as god brought him to life he sat on the floor as the mystic character baths him with water and rose petals. this is a representation of pureness and cleaning of the soul. the mystic character goes through the imaginary wall, the one the man couldnt go through, and as the man follows it, he goes through. this means that because he is now clean and free of sin he is able to go through.
at the end of the play we talked about it and i realized that eventhough the play didnt have any words, it was very clear because of the actions and even more because of the music and light effects. the way in which the LSF tell the story without words is amazing. this proves that the LSF builld a very important atmosphere in order for the play to take place

one-act-play

i am in charge of scenery. Firt we had to think of the theme of the play, once we fought because of it for two hours, we came to the idea of the orphanage. After we decided the atmosphere would be freaky we had to think about the scenery. We knew we had little space, so we decided to build a 6 pieces. the closet, desk, arm chairs(2), the mirror and a stand to put pictures. Then we had to imagine the space we had and draw the furniture with all the measurements. I had to draw them accurately, with annotations and explain the drawings to the man who had to talk to the man who will do the things. After the things were made, i had to check they were ok, the armchairs were done wrong so i had to redesign them in order to make them again. The idea of the armchairs were that they were covered with fabrics. my mom was going to buy them, but i have to go to see the texture, thickness, color and design so that it matches the rest of the scenery. i have to go today and find different options and then choose.

We went to see Extras. It was a play by just two actors that represented several characters. The play was in Spanish, and in verse. The most important performance techniques I thought were used were the use of the voice, pitch, intonation and volume. And also the posture, and mannerism. Because they had to play several characters, the most important things needed to make clear the change of character was those I mentioned before. The characters had to play women and they did so by changing mainly their voice, they used a much higher pitch and exaggerated intonation of a girl’s way of talking. And the posture was much feminine, not only the voice, but also the way they walked, moving the hips from side to side and arching their backs very exaggeratedly.

They used screen projections that represented the background. This image came out also with music that went with the picture; like for example they put the image of the dessert they put a song that was country and cowboy like. These images made the idea of they being extras in a movie, and feeling sorry for themselves.

The play was a comical play and had a lot of our culture right now, the language they used was very much of our own. The "gerga" they used was the same we use, and that made it intresting and easy to understand for me. It catch all my attention, i did fall asleep but because i was tired not because of the play. I would have enjoyed the play a lot more if i wouldnt have been tierd..

con-cierto olvido

we went to see the play con-cierto olvido from the group yuyachkani. The scenery was very simple, nothing else but 7 chairs with different instruments around the chairs. The costumes they were using was also very simple a basic black and white outfit.

As always it was difficult to understand the play, but eventually i realized that it was a mixture of several plays they had done.

The play had three parts, the three of them included music (played by themselves) singing (by themselves also) and talking. The way they sang was amazing, they didn't use microphones and they're voices were so loud that my ears started hurting, it was incredible.

i liked very much the part were one of the actresses acted as one of pataclaun's characters and talked like us, and talked about things that happens to us in a simple language, one everybody uses. I think that is really important because compared to the parts were they talked about i dont know want in a type of speaking that no one else uses its boring, and it was hard for me not to fall asleep.

What i really dislike about the acting in yuyachkani is that is very dry, in some way, i cant conect with the message they are sending, im not saying they are bad actors, NO WAY, i think they are great, but is not the type of theatre i enjoy, like cocina y zona de servicio, which no one liked, but i did. my personal taste for plays are much more of this time, more dinamic and easy to understand.

i think they would have been more clear in their acting if they've had had costumes, not just a simple outfit in black and white, because as the costume changes the intention of the actor and the characteristics of a characters also changes. i think a more clear costume of the character they were representing would have been a good idea. Not a whole costume, but at least one prop or one piece of cloth, like the one that used the one actress that played pataclaun who changed her character completely only by putting on a red nose.

Of course it would have been much better when they changed their costume completely like one of the actresses changed completely to act as another character(one that i dont remember right now, but she came to school and showed us that character)

if the actors would wore a different costume for each character, would the understanding of the audience (mostly people who think like me) be more clear and adecuate?

LA NI;A DE CERA

Maritza Nu;ez came to the school to explain to us her monologue and tell us something about her life as a dramaturga.

When i tried to read the monologue i didn’t understand a thing! But as we read it with miss Alicia and Maritza i actually enjoyed it. When they read it with intonation it made sense, the character of the girl interpreted her mother, her boyfriend and sometimes-other people, which weren’t really important.

When she talks as two characters as once its very confusing.

When we asked her the final questions, she didn’t answer with a concrete sentence, she diffused in branches and talked and talked endlessly for hours without stopping, not even answering the first question. I really didn’t learn much about her concerning play writing, but I sure learned some good life advises.

golpe... golpe!

well what could i say...

the play was not bad, it had all the possible performance techniques.

Before we entered the theatre two actors divided the audience in two lines one had a sticker that said home sweet home and the other one said go home. I didnt understand what was its purpose, as we entered the theatre both groups were sitted on different sides of the theatre.

The music was been played a live and interactuaba with the actors, they communicated back and forth. It started with a monologue which i didnt fully understood, i think it had something to do with a boy leaving his house because his father didnt want him to go to war. The five actors represented one character at a time, even though they were enough to divide the characters, they didnt.

As the actors played the boy, they stand in a diagonal line and acted in unison, the same actions. This made it emphasied the actions of the boy.

The play was in spanish, spanish from spain.

The actors mixed with the audience and made us fight with each other. The group that had the sticker of home sweet home had to scream to the other “team” of go home and the one group that screamed stgronger won.

The actors explained to us that we were like cows in a farm, we do what we are told. We sitted were they told us to and did what they told as to do.

I think it was good to mix with the audience because it Wole me up, because i was falling asleep.

The performance techniques were so good that made the play obvious and boring.

es broma?!

i would like to start with charging robbie ray 15 soles because the plat was a complete disaster!!!!

i hope we never get to THAT point of sucking! jajaja

well...

i thought the idea of the three scenarios being completely different from each other was good, and that as the play evolves they started to get mixed and worked with each other. The theme of the part of the "english" ladies was dumb. That whole story evolved around the fact that some people had stolen the tea time (5 o'clock). The characters in that story were two sister which i don't remember their names... The older sister was the one hysterical about the tea time being stolen and the younger sister was the one that didn't care about a thing about the tea time and was a naive lover. In the second scenery there were two characters also, a man and a woman, the woman was the captain and the man was the man in charge on the boat. They were suposed to be sailing. The captain was lesbian. They didn't want to be heroes, that why they didn't want to go back to their land.

The third scenery was with two actors too. A man and his wife. The wife was stupid and "good" and the husband abused her.

The story gets all mixed up and messy in a way. The naive "english girl" fell in love with the helper of the captain, the helper of the captain was in love with the captain, the captain (who was a woman) fell in love with "dulcinea", the stupid wife of the agressive man from the third scene and the agressive man fell in love with the hysterical sister from the "english girls"

I personally didn't like the fact that the captain, who was a woman, fell in love with another girl. I don't have any judge against homosexual relationships, but i think that what they did showed in the play a little bit too much, i found it uncomfortable and disgusting.

One of the things I did found good in the play was that the actors made in some point interaction with the audience, they sat in between the audience.

Then something i didn't like at all was the fact that when the "english" sisters were having tea, they were not using anything!!! It was like they didn't have time to prepare it properly or something... Then, the older sister had the wig bad arranged... I could see her dark hair popping out of the wig!

in conclusion the play was awful.

Could it had been better if our perspective and expectation would have been low?

tengo sue;o!!!

cocina y zona de servicio

i really liked this play. It was the second time i've gone to that theatre and it looked completely different than the first time i went. The scenery of the play was divided into three different atmospheres, the kitchen, the inside of the house and the laundry. The kitchen area had all the props imagined, it looked like a real kitchen, the light was yellowish light and bright at the same time, there were plates, a kitchen with electricity, gas and water, there was a phone, a table, etc, all that a normal kitchen would have. The laundry area had a more dull white light that seemed as the moonlight, but a little brighter. The scenery of the laundry was, for me, perfect. The typical rotten, falling apart dirty white walls, erode by the humidity of Lima, the detergent bag on the floor, the hanging bed sheets, etc. The third zone, was the indoor of the house, it was of a very dark yellow.

The thing that impressed me the most is the character building that they have worked on. They way each one of them had their own way of moving, speaking, walking, dressing everything. Depending of what was the character like, it changed in the way of dressing even.

The character i liked the most was Jorge, the friend of the couple. He had a very sarcastic way of seen thing, all his comments on the play made me laugh. He smoked almost all of the play, and the fact that he was smoking might have done it much difficult, to concentrate on the play itself rather than enjoying the cigarette.

The costumes were not so important for this play, because it was at this time. What i didnt like to much was the fact that everybody, mainly "Carla" said a little bit to much bad words, it was at some point annoying.

Maybe the fact that there would have been less bad words, it would have been more intresting for me.

arrow!!!!

i had to create my character as fast as i could so i couldnt really think about it and analyze everything i wanted. I finally decided that my character would be a mixture of cupid and aphrodite (superhero) my power would be to make people fall in love between them and with me only when i want to.

in one of our drama meetings i founded out that one girl (villan) had a power similar to mine, but made people fall in love with her by blowing them a kiss, we talked and figured out that we maybe cousins or sisters one being the mean one and the other the good one.
we havent decided yet what is our relationship, but because we dont look alike at all we could be cousins.
my costume could be an acient greece goddess dress, all white with one shoulder only, with lentejuelas in gold or silver and a long heavy drop so as to make it look more like and aphrodite look.

Other idea was to break the stereotypes and make my look dark and a little bit emo, it would look good because of my light hair and very white skin, it would make a very cool contrast with the dark clothes, on the other hand my "cousin" which has dark hair could use more "angelical" in a way, look, all white and shades of light colors , that would break expectations and would make the children think.
i would need to talk to my partner and discuss how she plans to dress her character and tell her my ideas.

maybe the change of colors and the break of stereotypes will change of sides our characters at some point of the play. or ... could it make it confusing for the children who expect a superhero in white shades and a villan in dark ones??

i found my batch....

spanish golden age theatre!

It was difficult for me to find information about the stages and scenery of that time. I wasnt really that interested in the subject i had to research.

What i founded about the staging and scenery was mainly form information robbie gave me. A book and papers. The staging was simple and the theaters were situated on the back of "quintas" that were a group of houses with a patio on the centre of the houses. The plays had to be done in verse and the actors had to memorize the lines with the help of the intonation and the rhythm.

It was difficult to work with verse for me because the language was very formal and had strange synonyms that makes the phrase hear more beautiful.

Another thing that made it difficult was that because of the order of the words and the way the comas were used, the intonation of a type of song sticks to the words making it sound as a lame poem.

Today i had to say the monologue of Laurencia and i hadn't memorize all of it, so it was very difficult, besides i didint understand what it meant. The intonation for me wasn't to difficult, because i had worked on that last year. But the intention, that was hard for me. When we said the monologue with our own words and could say what we understood, it was much easier. After that exercise i could really show the intention i had with that monologue.

Puppet play

character...

We went to see a play of puppets to the Telefonica building. There were four different presentations.

The first one was a play about animals, the puppets were hand puppets. The purpose of the play was to teach a moral to the children. I couldn't recognize any performance techniques because there were no actors. At first the puppets didn't speak, they only did sounds to express what they were thinking. Just at the end of the story they talked so the children could understand the moral.

The second play was preformed by paper puppets operated by one man, this man spoke for the three different characters. In this play all the characters spoke all the time.

The next play was again a hand puppet play, but i didn't understand it.

At the end a person came out with string puppets and made them dance with peruvian music, but there wasn't a story.

robbie ray no entendi NADA de las obras rueron una cagada!! lo odie horrible felizmente fue gratis!!! jajajaj

yo se que mi review es una caca pero no se que mas poner..

see you tomorrow±