Friday 24th of September 2010

Today we were divided into groups for Theatre Sports. Our group had some difficulty in deciding a name. We had ideas such as Johnny Wall, Pikies, My Nan rides the trolley in Netto, Chronic master babies, Grand Deaf Lama, Jerry and the pacemakers, Finland has nice lakes, General attack and eventually the one we settled on, No, I’m nuts. Most of these suggestions were random names thrown out be people. We seriously considered  “My Nan rides/nicked a trolley in Netto”, which we dismissed because it was long and just too weird, and “Finland has nice lakes” , not choosing it because it was random . The one we settled on, “No, I’m nuts” also went through a transformation. It started by me saying, “No, I’m not”.  The problem was that we could not think of a outfit to it. We almost changed it until Mr Sarstedt suggested that we turn it into “No, I’m nuts”. Then we decided that we would all be dressed as different nuts. Then the next challenge was to come up with a cheer. This proved hard as no one really had ideas. Someone thought of getting a bag of nuts and throwing them at the audience. The we just played around with different phrases, trying to come up with one that works. We came up with, “Those who like nuts, stand up”.  We did not really come up with much more before the end of the lesson. For the last ten minutes, we rehearsed handles. The handle we did was a game where the first letter of a word had to be the last letter of the previous word. This was hard because you concentrated on coming up with words that had the right letter, meaning that the scenes often did not advance far. Of course, if the people in the group were more willing to go up on stage to save the scene then it would have worked out better.