My lines

Evaluation

Physicality for Juno

Juno's objectives

Costume and full make up

Look how graceful the peacock moves I will uses this type of movement when I am exploring the audience.

Lycaon pictus

An African wild Dog this name came from the Greek form for wolf 'Lycaon' and painted 'Pictus' this dog hunts in small packs and groups. During the scene when the spirits are chasing away Trinculo,Stephano and Caliban I will physically become a dog making sure I use levels and my facial expression looks extremely scary I will hunch my back and make appropriate noises during that scene to scare away Trinculo , Stephano and Caliban.

                       
                          I will try and make my physicality like this

Succubus

During the scene when the spirits reveal themselves to the royals I have based my movements on the demon Succubus. Since during that movement piece us spirits are offering ourselves to them therefore it has lead me to make slow movements like at cat stalking its prey I will be using a lot of levels during this movement. A Succubus is a female demon that usually appears in dreams in order to seduce men she appears in a human physical form and then has sexual intercourse with them. Religions believe that sexual intercourse with this demon can lead to damaged health or even death as they drain the life out of other people to live. The modern versions of a Succubus will appear to be an highly attractive seductress or enchantress but in the past these demons were very frightening. 

My costume as Juno

Rehearsals

The spirits becoming animals to chase away Stephano Trinculo and Caliban

Rehearsals

At the start of the play us spirits have movements to represent the fire and waves of the ship. I will make sure that these movements are big and abstract to represent the physicality of my character Juno .

Rehearsals

Jessie playing Caliban
Rachel playing Stephano

What The Tempest is based on

The Tempest which is Shakespeare last play tells a story of a magical island inhabited by forces of light and dark. This play is based on a shipwreck in the Bahamas in 1609. The Sea Venture a man made ship for the  powerful Virginia company left port in June to explore the new world  carrying settlers to the town Jamestown in Virginia. 2 months into the trip the ship was caught in a hurricane leading the captain to stop at the nearest island which was the Bermuda where the captain saved 150 people and a dog from the storm. This is believed to be the inspiration for the play as Shakespeare had access to this information the play was then first performed a year later in 1611.

Scholars say that the island of the tempest might not be a new world but a place in England maybe Ireland as in the play and also Ireland at the time was dealing with the concept of colonisation and home ruling. Another theory is that the island represents London and that the figure of Prospero is a version of Shakespeare  himself since the character Prospero represents a man of power on the island the ruler of all creature (Caliban and the spirits) yet he chooses to leave the island and return to a life back in the city which is very similar to Shakespeare quit to the stage after The Tempest returning to his family home in Stratford. I think that the play suggest Shakespeare bidding farewell to the theatre and asking forgiveness from his audience.

The Globe Theatre

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