Tuesday 2nd December
We read though the rest of Dr Korczak’s examples. Here
are some of the techniques we find and the notes we made in class about the
play.
As the story goes on Steff begins to turn against
the resents the restriction lace on her by the government but she’s still
attached to the orphanage where she lives and understand Dr Korczak’s points he
makes. Steff is more practical minded, which prove that she’s the selfless and
understanding young lady she was before Adzio come long, thinking about providing
for the community whereas for Adzio is materialistic and selfish even though he
has change Steff, she hasn't seem to change him to become more selfless.
Information is given out to the audience in scene21 by the actors not the characters, they talk about the orders given and it is
also setting the scene of Cerniakov and his plan to help the orphans, how it fails
which leads to his suicide. The dolls are used consistently as a distancing device
e.g. the doll is broken before the character takes cyanide and dies, the benefit
of doing this, is that the audience knows it about to help so they have no
reason to feel sad and shocked. Playwright points out the humanity of the
soldiers even though they are dolls. This shows how solider are as human as any
of us. They are just following orders and know in their heart or head that they
are doing wrong. The actors come out of the story to remind you it isn't real,
it takes you out of the emotion, but somehow it is more emotion as it’s happened
in real life and it just a remind of what happen to the children in times and
how the right for children can about with the sacrifice and selfless of one man
and his dreams. Korczak talks about being equal to children but can’t be honest
with them about death at the end, which goes against one of the his right for
the children which is “the right to desire, and claim, and ask” but he is being
kind to the children and letting them have hope and dreams till the very end. Summary
of political message at the end, a reminder to be thankful for Korczak, it’s
relevant to a modern audience. Audience given the manifesto at the end as
Brecht wanted the audience to actively think about messages of the play. This is
a good idea as it keeps reminding the people in the audience of what happen and
how they felt about this play.
The techniques that Brecht uses are Stereotypes,
multiroling acting, distancing with dolls, direct address, montages. These will
be use in our scene in which we were put ourselves in groups of three with one
boy in each group. My group got the scene 15-17. We have the scene where Steff
and Adzio kiss, to distance and take feeling out of the kiss I thought we could
use the dolls which we help us remind the audience that we are in a play.
My weakness from this lesson, are not commenting as much as I should but I feel like I did comment of important parts which I think I am glad of.
My strength for this lesson would be that I have a couple of good ideas of when it comes to thinking of the techniques to use in our scene.
