character sketch

Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Character Sketch 
Due Date - February 27, 2015

In order to play your character in a convincing way, you must consider his/her motivation.
Developing an understanding of why certain characters do what they do or say what they say, helps the actor make effective choices for dramatic movement, facial expressions and voice. Attempting to determine a character’s motivation also improves the authenticity of relationships between the characters on stage. An effective way of figuring out a character;s motivation is to ask and then answer a series of questions.
Note: Use information provided in the script and your imagination to answer the following questions. Some information about your character you might be inherent in the script while the majority of details about your charter you might have to create. Try to give as many specific examples as possible and include any additional information that you feel is relevant to understanding your character.

Part A: My Character’s Most Treasured Item
Your task is to find or create a specific item that your character would consider to be his/her most treasured item (e.g. family photo, a necklace, a postcard, etc.) and share it with the rest of the cast. Think specifically about what motivates your character in: life” and what materials things would be of great importance to him/her. Use your imagination!!
You will present your item to the class as well as chance in a one page (D/S) typed report describing why this item is significant.
DUE DATE FEBRUARY 27 1

Part B: Character Biography Your task is to create a biography for your character using the following information. Think of a creative way to present your information (Scrapbook, Biographical Sheet, Story, Magazine Article etc.) As long as your biography contains the appropriate information, your format can take any form- with in reason!
a) Personal Information: Name, Age, DOB, Height, Weight, Appearance.
b) Family: How does your character’s past effect how they are feeling/behaving now?
c) How does your character move? (quirks, qualities, voice, gestures, habits)
d) What is the relationship of your character to other characters on stage? How do other characters interact with your character? What clues in the script help to explain these relationships? (choose a few of the most important relationship to examine) e) Favourites: Food, Colour, Music, Movies, Books, etc.

Images from Alice Ballet

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland trailer | The National Ballet of Canada...

The class is excited to go see this production in Toronto in March.

Promotion update

Thanks to the efforts of Danielle and Faith, we have a rough copy of our poster and a rough copy of the bookmark.

Building a Set

The idea for our set is based on large modular pieces that can be rearranged for different scenes. These platforms will be combined with a variety of projections and animations/video to create a different kind of play-going experience. In set design class on Wednesday, we will go over the Big Picture!

Rough copy of Our logo

After this image is refined, it can be used for the t-shirt design, poster and tickets.

Other Spin-offs Related to Alice

possible bake sale idea

ticket idea

Logo Ideas

Combining Alice in Wonderland with Through the Looking Glass

As is so commonly done, the script we are using takes characters from each story and weaves them together. The strong chess theme is represented by the illustration below:

Character Pictures from a variety of Productions

Set Design Photos from a Variety of Sets

Theatre Production Journals

ADD2O/3M/4M

Please answer all the questions in your journal book. Please clearly identify your book by creating your own cover. Be original, be creative, and be fantastic!

Each question is worth 10 marks

15% of your final grade.

Journal # 1           Due: February 23rd

1. Why is it important that the cast and crew of a production work as a like-minded team?

2.  How can our class be a more like-minded team? What would you suggest we do to help create unity for our production of Alice in Wonderland? (Ensuring less cliques, working as one group)

Journal # 2              Due: March 23rd

1. Examine the relationship between the characters. How does that relationship shape the play?

3. What is your character's significance to the play? (If you do not have a character, choose one)

Journal # 3              Due: April 27th

1. Explain how you have contributed to this production of Alice in Wonderland. How have you demonstrated the ability to take responsibility, both as an individual and as a member of a group, when working in a theatre ensemble? (E.g., make artistic decisions, give support to others)

2. Now that you have had some time to see the class project coming together, you can describe the complexity of putting together a production. Remember to look at all of the areas of the production in your response, such as, costume, hair, makeup, dance, advertising, programme, acting, fund-raising and promotion.

Journal # 4                 Due: May 19th 

1. Taking a look at your own personal strengths, how have they impacted your successes in this production?

2. Do you think that this class has worked cohesively as a group? What have been our strong points as a group and what are some weaknesses that we can learn from and work on?

3. What has been your biggest learning curve this year? Have you or how did you overcome this?

The Calendar

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
February 1	2	3	4 Read text	5 Present text	6 Read Script	7
8	9 Watch Tim B movie	10	11	12	13 Auditions	14
15	16 Family Day	17	18	19 After school rehearsal 2:40 to 4:30	20	21
22	23	24	25	26 After school rehearsal 2:40 to 4:30	27	28
March 1	2	3	4	5 After school rehearsal 2:40 to 4:30	6	7
8	9	10	11	12 After school rehearsal 2:40 to 4:30	13	14
15	16 March Break	17	18	19	20	21
22	23	24	25 Ballet Trip to Toronto	26 After school rehearsal 2:40 to 4:30	27 Alice in the CAF	28
29	30	31	April 1	2 After school rehearsal 2:40 to 4:30	3 Good Friday	4
5	6 Easter Monday	7	8	9After school rehearsal 2:40 to 4:30	10 Bake Sale	11
April 12 Dewe's raffle ticket sales	13	14	15	16 After school rehearsal 2:40 to 4:30	17	18
19	20	21	22 Painting Party 2:40 to 8:00	23 After school rehearsal 2:40 to 4:30	24 Tea Party in the Auditorium	25
26 All day rehearsal 10:30 to 4:00	27	28	29 Painting Party 2:40 to 8:00	30 Dress Rehearsal 2:40 to 5:00	May 1	2
3 Dress Rehearsal 10:30 to 4:00	4	5 School Matinee	6 School Matinee	7 Opening Night	8 Evening Performance	9 Evening performance
10 Matinee Final performance Wrap up	11 Clean up Week	12	13	14	15	16
17	18 Victoria Day	19 Begin One Acts	20	21	22	23
24	25	26	27	28	29	30
31	June 1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8 Present One Acts	9	10	11	12	13
14	15 Maquettes Due	16	17	18 Exams Start	19	20
21	22	23Last Exam	24	25 Graduation	26 PA Day	27