Rituals

1. What are Rituals?

Rituals are when is set out group of actions that is often related to religion, or tradition.

2. What are examples of rituals?

Some example of rituals are confirmation, mass, and evensong.

3. Why are rituals related to nature?

Rituals are related to nature because they are a way of coming to respect and love the gods or spirits that live in nature, like the a bear god or god. Also because rituals mimic nature because there is a lot of repetition in nature, and rituals are also very repetitive. 

4. Why is repetition critical to the enhancing of a ritual?

Repetition is critical to enhancing a rituals because in essence each religion is trying to engrain their beliefs in there heads.

5. List events that are repetitive in your lives or the world around you.

Brushing your teeth

Sleeping

Going to school

Eating dinner

Going to the gym

Driving to work

6. What action would you repeat on a regular basis?

I always get out of bed, go to the bathroom, have a shower, get dressed, eat breakfast, brush my teeth, go to school ect.

7. Do Rituals have a symbolic value? Explain the value of symbolism in ritual.

Yes, a lot of rituals do have symbolic values. A lot of rituals use the moon and the sum to represent different things. Some also use fire and water.

8. How are rituals associated with theatre?

I think that there are a lot of rituals that are used in the theater during a performance. I think that we use rituals in theatre to try and attract people to there primitive nature. Also I think that we try and associate rituals into theater because rituals a very pretty, and prestigious things to be a part of.

9. How are rituals related to memory? 

I believe that a ritual is related to memory because with all of the repetition in rituals they are basically brainwashing us into believing what they want to believe. 

How are hierarchies related to status? How does one assert one's status over others?

 

Hierarchies are related status because they show your position. The higher up you are on the hierarchy the more power you have. The lower you are in the hierarchy the less power you have making you lower in status. One may either use a person lower on the hierarchy for a slave or a servant. Also they may bully and or hurt others because they are higher on the hierarchy and they can. Also one may boss people around because they are trying to move themselves up in the ranks because they impress the other people. 

Individual Role Play

Which of your faces/masks/personas is really you?

I think that all of the personas that I played are really me. I think that i am not just a single celled organism. I am more the just one thing. I will show different sides of me to different people. I will be caring, and thmughtfull and other things to my girlfriend. This side of me i have never shown, and highly doubt will show to any of my teachers. I think that we have different sides to use because that is what makes us who we are. If i was one person to everyone i would not have that many friends, and my parents and teachers and friends would all think of me as a different person. I think that when we act differently around others we show who we truly are because as an individual you think that you are acting very differently, but really you are still the same person, and all of you will shine, it just depends on who is seeing it, and from what perspective. I think as a person we try and portray a different person to different people, but i think that is just human nature, and trying to make ourselves recognized, and loved. In a whole I think that no matter what face we put on we are still the same person, and we shouldn't try and be exactly the same around everyone because you will not be successful because you will be so 1 sided, and uninteresting that people will not want to be incorporated with you.

1. How is role-playing or acting different from taking on a particular attitude during a group activity? I think that the attitude is different because you have more freedom in acting to explore a different personality or a person. 2. What can you do to improve your contribution to group work? I think that i can listen more to the people that are trying to express the opinion on how they think stuff should be done, even if their points are stupid. I think that i should also try to be more co-operative with the other group members.

Role-Play Questions 2

1) Some sociologists say that because most families today have so much technology, we have become so self-sufficient that we think that we donít need communities anymore. What do you think about this?

I think that this is a somewhat true statement, but i think that in todays society with the amount of technology we have we can create a different type of society. Also i think that we still have a community, it just is less reliant on others.

2) How important is concentration and focus in this kind of work? Why?

Concentration and focus are so important in this kind of activity because without them you can not maintain a certain amount of disbelief, also if you start laughing during a scene then the entire scene could be ruined.

3) How important is listening to others in this kind of work? Why?

It is so important to listen in this kind of work because you don't know who the other person is, or what they are gonna say. Also you have to listen because if you don't you will end up saying something that has nothing to do with the scene.

4) How does role play in drama help us understand ourselves as human beings on this planet?

It helps us understand ourselves as human beings because it will help us think from other people's perspectives. Also i think that it will help because we can share how we are feeling through another person. This will let out all of the built up rage inside and stop us from flipping out.

Role-Play Questions

1. What makes role-play enjoyable?

I think that one of the major things in role-play that is fun is that you can take on something, or someone that you are not. I like the idea of being able to almost step out of your own preconceived way of looking, and thinking about things, and completely change it. An example of this is i could take the role of an 80 year old man if I pleased. 

2. How does adding details improve the work? What are those details?

I think that by adding details to a scene it is much easier to fully absorb the person that you are trying to creates background. Also i think that by having more details you almost relate a scene more to a idea or image that you have already seen before.

Performance 1 reflection

1) Please put the title or name of your performance and the group members at the top of your entry?

Title: Milan's Homework

Actors: Cameron Beatty, Arshia, Milan, Mackenzie 

2) Briefly describe the process your group undertook in preparing for you performance. What worked? What didn't work?

Our group started off by making a plan for the performance, then we started to work on the tableaus. I think that this was a fairly successful, I think that we could have been more focused, and structured at the start, but overall i thought that it worked well.

3) Do you think that your performance is successful or not successful? Why or why not? 

I thought that our performance was very succesful minus a few small errors. I think that if we had stayed still in the narration parts it would have added effect, also i think that i could have projected my voice a bit more when i was narrating.

4) What do you think could have improved about your performance?

I think that if we had been more organized with our transitions the entire thing would have flowed a bit better. Also I think that if we had a bit better costumes it would have added a bit more to the performance. 

5)What do you think worked well in your performance?

I think that the way the we had narratives from a persons point of view worked well. I also thought that the amount of time that we spent in each freeze was really good because it let the audience take in what we were doing. 

Tableau Questions

1. Movies use still images as a means of depicting emotions. Also they use is for when there is narration in a scene to help explain what is going on, or what a character is thinking, for example in the movie Fight Club the main character goes through parts of narration. Another example is in movies when there is an explosion, and they will pause the picture, and then do a 360º look at it.

2. Tableau can show the audience how the people on stage are feeling, i.e. if there is a person that everyone thought was dead walks in they can have people in the background making awestruck faces, which will help the audience understand how people are feeling.

3. The difference between being sculpted into a position to putting yourself into a position is that when you are being sculpted the other person is seeing you from the perspective of an audience member; he knows what you look like. Also sometimes when you are being sculpted you no longer have your limits, they are erased, and the other person takes complete control.

4. Like in my prior answer the person that is sculpting will be looking at the person from the perspective of an audience member, and also it will erase the limits for the people that being sculpted, and it will make it easier to show more emotion.