Sunday, March 30, 2008
HOW IT IS TO BE EVALUATED BY OTHERS
HOW YOU WANT TO EVALUATED OTHER STIMULATED
Beside that, as a teacher, we have to be careful with our appearance. Teacher should be a role model to the student and that is one of the important elements that I will look for when I have a chance to evaluate my friends. Then, eye contact and body language is also important. Teacher need to communicate with their students. That is some of the element or aspect that I will use to evaluate other stimulated.
Saturday, March 22, 2008
YOU THINK MACBETH IS A VIOLENT?
WALLAH
Actually, this story is about a family troupe of English actors travelling in India. Tony Buckingham and his wife Carla are the actor-managers of the troupe. They travel around the towns and villages giving performances of Shakespearean plays. They have acted his play in India and one day, the couple's daughter Lizzie Buckingham, falls in love with Sanju, a wealthy young Indian playboy who is also have a relationship with Manjula, the glamorous Bombay film star. We can see the changing face of India through their travels. For examples, Maharajas become hotel owners, the old is replaced by the new, sports become more important than culture and the theatre is replaced by Bollywood movies. Through this play, I manage to see the costumes during the Shakespeare’s time and can actually watch the stage performance in it.
TEIRESIAS
Teiresias is not blind by birth but it is believed that he is blinded by Athena because he accidentally came across her while she was bathing naked. His mother, Chariclo who is Athena’s nymph begged her to undo the curse but she was not able to undo it, instead she gave Teiresias the gift of prophecy.
Teiresias, who is the prophet in the country of Thebes; knew everything about Oedipus’s fate. He is the one who killed his own father, King Laios and the one who slept with his own mother, Iocaste; without knowing that they are his parent. He is intellectually blind as well as physically blind, but Teiresias is not. Although Teiresias is physically blind, he is mentally good and that is why he became the prophet of Thebes.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Blog 4 : LIVE STAGE DIRECT
LIVE STAGE DIRECT
Welcome again to my blog and this time I can’t wait to write in my blog because during our 4th week, we have been asked by our lecturer to have a live stage direct. We are required to read a dialogue and do some live stage direct in front of other students. Before that, lecturer has introduced us with closed text and open text. From this, I can identify which is open test and which is closed text. After that, lecturers asked us to find a partner and read the text entitle Bingo by Edward Bond. Then, we have been asked to rehearse a performance of the scene. There is a variety of performances in all aspect including intonation and emphasis and pace and attitude. From this live stage performance, we can create our own situation. There is students who perform the scenario of the student during a test and a writers in a cafĂ©. For me, I have chosen to perform the scenario of pal in a restaurant. This live stage directs is a medium for us to get closer with the element of drama and theatre.
Blog 3 : REFLECTION ON POEMS
REFLECTION ON
FOUR AGES OF MAN, MACBETH LIFE’S BREATH CANDLES AND SOPHOCLES – OEDIPUS REX RIDDLE SPHYNX.
This time in my third blog, I would like to give a reflection on four ages of man, Macbeth life’s breath candles and Sophocles-Oedipus Rex Riddle Sphynx. From these poems, I can say that these poems show how the poets perceive their life. Most of the poem try to tell us that that in this life, we cannot change our fate. No matter what happen, we have to accept our destiny. Our life has already arranged by the almighty since we’re not yet born. We have to face all the challenge in our life because that is how we perceive life.