Rehearsal pictures

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Performance for Parents

On Thursday 13th February, the Devil In Drag cast rehearsed our play from 10am until 5pm... We tried to make it as perfect as possible. At 6:30, the parents began to file in to watch our performance. Our nerves were rising but we tried to keep as calm as possible. Many of us forgot our lines but we decided to show off our improvisation skills, which worked seamlessly.

In my performance, I, personally, forgot a group of my lines but I began to improvise, since I knew the Judge's objectives, and Hannah and Delainy quickly caught on to the idea and continued with our scene.

Since the whole cast was on stage the whole time, we had to make sure that we weren't pulling focus from the scenes, which is harder than most of us thought it would be since we had to do as little movement as possible...

As a whole, I believe that our performance went brilliantly and we all worked fabulously together to make it work.

Renaissance Italy

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Wading Through The Web Student Handout 1

1. Can you think of any other ways the Internet and other texts are different? The same? 

The internet an other texts (like books) are similar because they can both provide information but they are different because books can be seen as more reliable because a publisher had to check the facts are correct before the book can be published.
 

2. After looking at the first two to three sites on Google, how helpful do you think the information is?

The first two to three results on Google are very reliable because they are the most clicked on and the ones that provide more correct information.

How is the information in Yahoo! different from the information you found in Google?

Yahoo gives good results but the layout of the website isn't as clear, or easy to use, as it is on google.

Leading from...

In The Devil In Drag, the characters all lead from different parts of the body; this can explain the character without dialogue as it can explain things such as status.

In the play, the judge could lead by the belly to show how he is a drunk, lazy and old man.

Pizzocca Ganassa could lead with an arched-back to show that she old and worn-out.

Cardinal Amobone/Intruder/Father Mirone could lead from the bum to show that they are older but have a high status.

Dario Fo

Dario Fo

Born: 24th March 1926

Married to: Franca Rame

Born: Italy

Language: Italian

His plays have been translated into 30 different languages and performed across the world. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Fo)

List of works: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Fo)

• 1958 – Un morto da vendere (Corpse for Sale)
• 1958 – Non tutti i ladri vengono a nuocere (The Virtuous Burglar)
• 1959 – Gli arcangeli non giocano al flipper (Archangels Don't Play Pinball)
• 1960 – Aveva due pistole con gli occhi bianchi e neri (He Had Two Pistols with White and Black Eyes)
• 1961 – Chi ruba un piede è fortunato in amore (He Who Steals a Foot is Lucky in Love)
• 1963 – Isabella, tre caravelle e un cacciballe (Isabella, Three Tall Ships, and a Con Man)
• 1967 – La signora è da buttare (Throw the Lady Out)
• 1968 – Grande pantomima con bandiere e pupazzi piccoli i medi (Grand Pantomime with Flags and Small and Middle-sized Puppets)
  • Later updated as Morte e resurezione di un pupazzo (Death and Resurrection of a Puppet)
• 1969 – Mistero Buffo (Comical mystery)
• 1969 – L'operaio conosce 300 parole, il padrone 1,000: per questo lui è il padrone (The Worker Knows 300 Words, the Boss Knows 1000, That's Why He's the Boss)
• 1969 – Legame pure che tanto io spacco tutto lo stesso (Chain Me Up and I'll Still Smash Everything)
• 1970 – Vorrei morire stasera se dovessi pensare che non è servito a niente (I'd Rather Die Tonight If I Had To Think It Had All Been In Vain)
• 1970 – Morte accidentale di un anarchico (Accidental Death of an Anarchist)
• 1971 – Tutti uniti! Tutti insieme! Ma scusa, quello non è il padrone? (United We Stand! All Together Now! Oops, Isn't That the Boss?)
• 1972 – Fedayn
  • An Arab Woman Speaks (from Fedayn)
• 1973 – Mamma Togni
• 1973 – Guerra di popolo in Cile (The People's War in Chile)
• 1974 – Porta e Belli contro il potere (Porta and Belli Against the Authorities)
• 1974 – Non Si Paga! Non Si Paga! (Can't Pay? Won't Pay!)
• 1975 – Il Fanfani rapito (Fanfani Kidnapped)
• 1976 – La marijuana della mamma è la più bella (Mother's Marijuana is the Best)
• 1977 – Parliamo di donne (Let's Talk About Women)
• 1977 – Tutta casa, letto e chiesa (All House, Bed and Church, series of five monologues)
  • Il risveglio (Waking Up)
  • Una donna tutta sola (A Woman Alone, title changed to Adult Orgasm Escapes from the Zoo for a 1983 performance)
  • La mamma fricchettona (Freak Mother)
  • The Same Old Story
  • Medea

• 1977 – l’Uomo incinto (The pregnant man) [1]

• 1978 – La storia della tigre (The Tale of a Tiger)
• 1981 – Clacson, trombette e pernacchi (Trumpets and Raspberries)
• 1983 – Coppia aperta, quasi spalancata (The Open Couple)
  • Lo stupro (The Rape)
• 1983 – Il candelaio (The Candlestickmaker)
• 1984 – Quasi per caso una donna: Elisabetta (Elizabeth: Almost by Chance a Woman)
• 1985 – Manuale minimo dell'attore (The Tricks of the Trade, 1991)^[111]
• 1985 – Hellequin, Harlekin, Arlecchino
• 1986 – Abducting Francesca (adapted in English as Abducting Diana by Stephen Stenning, 1994)
• 1987 – The First Miracle of the Infant Jesus
• 1989 – Lettera dalla Cina (Letter from China)
• 1989 – The Story of Qu
• 1989 – Il ricercato (The Wanted Man, unperformed)
• 1989 – Il Papa e la strega (The Pope and the Witch)
• 1990 – Zitti! Stiamo precipitando! (Hush! We're Falling!)
• 1992 – Johan Padan and the Discovery of the Americas
• 1992 – Settimo: ruba un po' meno no. 2 (Seventh Commandment: Steal a Bit Less No. 2)
• 1993 – Mamma! I sanculotti! (Mummy! The Sans-culottes!)
• 1994 – Sesso? Grazie, tanto per gradire! (Sex? Thanks, Don't Mind If I Do!)
• 1995 – Leonardo: The Flight, the Count and the Amours
• 1997 – Il diavolo con le zinne (The Devil with Boobs)
• 2003 – The Two-Headed Anomaly
• 2009 – Francis The Holy Jester

He won a Nobel Prize in 1997 in Literature.

"Know how to live the time that is given you" - Dario Fo