Last week, we had 2 people from “Bard on the Beach” come into our classroom. They came for 3 days and they taught us about the play “Much Ado About Nothing”. I was only there for the first day so I didn’t get to experience all 3 days. Something I really enjoyed about “Bard on the Beach” was doing the tableaus. Before that I hadn’t really done anything like that and I thought it was very enjoyable. We did tableaus of comedies, romance, and tragedies. I don’t think we did a tableau for history. I also learned all 4 types of Shakespearean plays, which happens to be those 4: romance, comedy, history, and tragedy. We were given mean lines, which we were supposed to say to a person in a mean tone. That person would also say something mean back. After we did that we had to say our line to the person again, but this time we would say it in a nice tone. We then did more tableaus, but this time we did tableaus that had to do with the play “Much Ado About Nothing”. We learned about the characters in the play “Much Ado About Nothing” like Benedich and Hero. There wasn’t really anything that I didn’t enjoy. The first day seemed really fun and enjoyable, but I wasn’t there for the other two, so I can’t really say much for them. If there was anything that I didn’t like it was that I thought we were going to watch the play. I realized that we weren’t going to watch the play when I walked in and saw only two guys dressed in everyday clothing instead of several people dressed in the clothing they would need for the play.
In the picture above is a tableau of a tragedy. I watch as my classmate is being stabbed.