WORKSHOP: THEATRE (2ESO)
- Activity: The purpose of this activity is to introduce kids in the theatre world in a different and amusing way. We have chosen four plays which are related with four different emotions. They will choose one and they will read the beginning of the plays. Each group has to improvise an alternative ending for the plays. The rest of the class will have to say what they think about it. In the end, we will show them the real ending.
1. Love: Twelfth Night
3. Ambition: Macbeth
4. Jealousy: Othello.
1.
TWELFTH NIGHT:
Viola is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria and she comes ashore with the help of a captain. She loses contact with her identical twin brother, Sebastian, whom she believes to be dead (but he appears in Illyria, alive). She (Olivia) dresses herself as a young man under the name Cesario, she enters the service of Duke Orsino, that is in love with Olivia,who doesn’t want to hear about men. Duke Orsino sends Cesario regulary to visit Olivia and try to convince her of falling in love with Duke Orsino. Due to this visits Olivia falls in love with Cesario, believing she is a man.
So now we have Viola (Cesario) in love with Duke Orsino, Duke Orsino in love with Olivia and Olivia in love with Cesario.
-How will the play end?
2.
MACBETH:
Macbeth receives three prophecies from three witches: he would be named Thane of Cawdor, he would be King of Scotland, and they assured him that “no man of woman born” would harm him. They also predict that Banquo’s descendants will be the heirs of the crown. When the first prediction becomes true, his ambitious wife manipulates him, so he kills King Duncan and plans to kill Banquo’s son. Macduff, a noble man, and Malcom, Duncan’s son, discover the truth.
-Try to think how the other predictions will become true and how the play can finish.
3.
HAMLET:
Hamlet, the king of Denmark is death, and after his death the Queen of Denmark, Gertrude, marries Claudio, King Hamlets brother.
The main character, Hamlet (king Hamlets son) saw the ghost of his father, who tells him that Claudio, killed him and that he, Hamlet, should take revenge by killing Claudio.
Hamlet starts acting strangely and people start to think that he is getting mad. However he doesn't know if he should believe the ghost or not, so he tells a theater company to represent a play showing his fathers death to observe Claudios reaction, who reacts very badly, leaving the theater.
-What will Hamlet do to Claudio, will he kill him?
-Will people believe Hamlet or will they just find it as a sign of his “madness”?
4. OTHELLO:
Othello, a noble black warrior in the Venetian army, has married a white woman Desdemona, the daughter of a prominent senator, Brabantio. When he finds out, he is outraged, and promptly disowns her.
Othello’s ensign, Iago, is jealous about Othello, partly because another soldier,Cassio, has been promoted ahead of him. Intent on revenge, Iago hatches a devious plan to plant suspicions in Othello’s mind that Desdemona has been unfaithful to him with Cassio.
-How will end Iago’s plan?
-Will Othello believes Desdemona?
