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The Tempest In-School Residency Created By: Kat Martin Session #1 The Tempest In-School Residency Created by: Kat Martin Session #1: Text and Choices – focusing on opening dialogue between Prospero and Caliban, ​ Act I, scene 2 3/23 B Block: 8:30-10:00 D Block: 10:15-11:45 F Block: 11:45-12:30 3/24 E Block: 10:15-11:45 A Block: 1:45-3:15 Kat introduces team and text (3 min) Discussion of character and activity: (30 min) Kat introduces the activity: We can tell a lot about who characters are and how we as performers should embody them by analyzing what the character says and what is said about the character by others. Remember how your character says something is as revealing or more than what they actually say. Also keep in mind the relationship that the speaker has with your character because will undoubtedly color their perception of them. By pulling apart the text in this way we can draw conclusions about the characters physically (height/weight/race/gender/age) economic (class) psychologically (what patterns do we see in their behavior? What patterns ground their decision making?) and moral ethically (what represents the highest good to your character) Activity: Split the class into 3 groups one group will work with Caliban and one with Prospero one with Miranda using their full text: Make lists of what the character says (thinking about how they say it) and what is said about the character then use that List to draw conclusions about the 4 levels of character: physical, economic/class,psychological, and moral ethical Share the findings (10 min) The Tempest Residency Norfolk Academy Created for Virginia Stage Company by: Kat Martin 1 Performance of I,ii (40 min) [using our cut version below. I will also print out copies for everyone] Miranda and Prospero visit Caliban [Ryan-Prospero Grace-Caliban Jenny-Miranda] Things to consider: while making adjustments based on what the students have found How should the actors embody their character physically? What is the quality of the relationship between the characters? Keeping in mind class and power Do the actions of the character in the scene fit in their patterns or break them? What do the characters want? How do we want this scene to effect the audience? The Tempest Residency Norfolk Academy Created for Virginia Stage Company by: Kat Martin 2 I,ii (Prospero finishes telling Miranda how they came to the island) MIRANDA The strangeness of your story put Heaviness in me. PROSPERO Shake it off. Come on; We'll visit Caliban my slave. MIRANDA 'Tis a villain, sir, I do not love to look on. PROSPERO But, as 'tis, We cannot miss him: he does make our fire, Fetch in our wood and serves in offices That profit us. What, ho! slave! Caliban! Thou earth, thou! speak. CALIBAN [Within] There's wood enough within. PROSPERO Come forth, I say! there's other business for thee: Come, thou tortoise! when? PROSPERO Thou poisonous slave, come forth! Enter CALIBAN CALIBAN As wicked dew as e'er my mother brush'd With raven's feather from unwholesome fen Drop on you both! a south-west blow on ye The Tempest Residency Norfolk Academy Created for Virginia Stage Company by: Kat Martin 3 And blister you all o'er! PROSPERO For this, be sure, to-night thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up; urchins Shall, for that vast of night that they may work, All exercise on thee; thou shalt be pinch'd As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em. CALIBAN I must eat my dinner. This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother, Which thou takest from me. When thou camest first, Thou strokedst me and madest much of me, wouldst give me Water with berries in't, and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night: and then I loved thee And show'd thee all the qualities o' the isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile: Cursed be I that did so! All the charms Of Sycorax, toads, beetles, bats, light on you! For I am all the subjects that you have, Which first was mine own king: and here you sty me In this hard rock, whiles you do keep from me The rest o' the island. PROSPERO Thou most lying slave, Whom stripes may move, not kindness! I have used thee, Filth as thou art, with human care, and lodged thee In mine own cell, I pitied thee, Took pains to make thee speak, taught thee each hour One thing or other: till thou didst seek to violate The honour of my child. CALIBAN The Tempest Residency Norfolk Academy Created for Virginia Stage Company by: Kat Martin 4 O ho, O ho! Would’t had been done! Thou didst prevent me; I had peopled else This isle with Calibans. PROSPERO Therefore wast thou Deservedly confined into this rock, Who hadst deserbed more than a prison. CALIBAN You taught me language; and my profit on't Is, I know how to curse. The red plague rid you For learning me your language! PROSPERO Hag-seed, hence! Fetch us in fuel; and be quick, thou'rt best, To answer other business. Shrug'st thou, malice? If thou neglect'st or dost unwillingly What I command, I'll rack thee with old cramps, Fill all thy bones with aches. CALIBAN No, pray thee. Aside I must obey: his art is of such power, It would control my dam's god, Setebos, and make a vassal of him. PROSPERO So, slave; hence! The Tempest Residency Norfolk Academy Created for Virginia Stage Company by: Kat Martin 5 Session #2: Comedy in The Tempest – focusing on Act II, scene 2 (Stephano, Trinculo, and ​ Caliban – “Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows,” etc.) - Tuesday Morning 8:30-10: Jenny: Stephano Kat: Trinculo Ryan: Caliban - Tuesday Afternoon 1:45-3:15 Jenny: Stephano Grace: Trinculo Ryan : Caliban - Wednesday morning 8:30-11:45 Kat: Stephano Tommy: Caliban Grace: Trinculo - Wednesday Afternoon: 11:45- 3:15 Jenny: Stephano Kat: Trinculo Ryan: Caliban Kat (Tuesday morning)/Grace (Tuesday Afternoon)/Tommy (Wednesday Morning) : Introduces comedy and commedia (10 min) Today we are going to talk about comedy in The Tempest. Who are some of your favorite comedians/actors/funny friends and what about them makes them funny. (writes list on board. We want to try to steer them toward physicality, delivery, timing, and or observation) So you guys know what makes a person funny. I am seeing a couple broad categories in your list (i.e. physicality, delivery, timing, and or observation, puns) Shakespeare also utilizes these basic tools in The Tempest while drawing on a template his Elizabethan audiences were already familiar: commedia del arte. Commedia is formula driven and improvisationally based. This theater style comes from the Italian Renaissance which inspires the Elizabethan era and its enlightenment. The Tempest Residency Norfolk Academy Created for Virginia Stage Company by: Kat Martin 6 Kat (Tuesday morning) /Jenny(Tuesday Afternoon): Commedia Presentation (15 min) -While discussing the types the actor should adjust their physicality -Questions for class -Which of these types do you see in The Tempest -Trinculo Stephano and Caliban are a kind of Zani and they are going to be our focus today Ryan (Tuesday morning)/Grace (wednesday morning): Insult/Compliment game (15 min) -Once through with 2 lines for language -Once through to think about the commedia physicality and lazzis -And maybe once through with 2 insults from Act 2 Scene 2? II, ii (40 min) - “Cold read” then ask the class if they noticed anything in the text that is a joke or an opportunity to show some commedia traits (10 min) - Tuesday Morning 8:30-10: Jenny: Stephano Kat: Trinculo Ryan: Caliban - Tuesday Afternoon 1:45-3:15 Jenny: Stephano Grace: Trinculo Ryan : Caliban - Wednesday morning 8:30-11:45 Kat: Stephano Tommy: Caliban Grace: Trinculo - Wednesday Afternoon: 11:45- 3:15 Jenny: Stephano Kat: Trinculo Ryan: Caliban - Actor mark scripts with class suggestions for following group work - Break into 2 groups and lay a rough blocking sketch in with your students as actors. (20 min) - Don’t worry about getting all the way through it get as far as you can with the level of detail you want - Present scenes (10 min) The Tempest Residency Norfolk Academy Created for Virginia Stage Company by: Kat Martin 7 TEMPEST II,ii CALIBAN All the infections that the sun sucks up From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall and make him By inch-meal a disease! His spirits hear me And yet I needs must curse. Lo, now, lo! Here comes a spirit of his, and to torment me For bringing wood in slowly. I'll fall flat; Perchance he will not mind me. TRINCULO Here's neither bush nor shrub, to bear off any weather at all, and another storm brewing; If it should thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide my head. What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient and fish- like smell. Thunder Alas, the storm is come again! my best way is to creep under his gaberdine; there is no other shelter hereabouts: misery acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows. I will here shroud till the dregs of the storm be past. Enter STEPHANO, singing: a bottle in his hand STEPHANO I shall no more to sea, to sea, Here shall I die ashore-- This is a very scurvy tune to sing at a man's funeral: well, here's my comfort.
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