Saturday 30 July 2011

We Present, We Reflect

We Present, We Reflect…


         On the 27th of July 2011, we were asked to present a scene from the short story ‘The Lamb To the Slaughter’. So, our group choose the scene where Mrs. Maloney killed her husband, Mr. Maloney with a frozen lamb leg, and the scene where she acts really sad in front of the officers that ask her questions about the murdering of Mr. Patrick Maloney. Elfera plays the role of Mrs. Maloney, Abdul Falakh played the role of Mr.Maloney , Albinus played the role of Sam, the grocer while Angela and Kelly played the role of police officers. It was a very fun and hilarious experience for our group because we act with our spontaneous dialogues and we were the first group that performed despite of our lack of practice for the performance. So, after all the groups had finished performing, our beloved English Studies lecturer, Mr. Camillus Ong ask us to reflect based on our performance. These are the questions that he asked us to reflect :
1.     What is the message that I’m trying to bring across in this short performance ?
2.      Are there any areas that I can work on after reviewing the whole scene?
3.       What values can I learn from putting up this short sketch?
So, the message that we are trying to bring across in this short performance is the irrational action of Mrs. Maloney towards her husband. She killed her own husband with a frozen lamb leg just because his husband wants a divorce with her. We also wanted to highlight the capability of acting in Mrs. Maloney as she acts really sad when the officers came to her house to investigate the murdering of her husband.
            The areas that we would like to work on, if we had another chance to perform some acting is our eye contact with the audience and having a proper dialogue when acting. These two elements are the major things to consider putting up a successful performance.
            The values that our group learn from putting up this sketch is the value of cooperation because as a one group, we have to be very cooperative to make this performance a success.
As a conclusion, we love this kind of activity in English Studies subject and we hoped that our group keep on improving each and every day.

Introducing group members


Scene where Mrs Maloney hit her husband, Mr Maloney

Ths scene where Mr Maloney fell and died, witness by his wife
(our actor, Elfera, made the scene look real)

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Thursday 28 July 2011

And the story begins...




Today is the first time we created a blog for our group. We spend hours searching for the right name. At last we found the perfect group name. "Titania_Titans". Perhaps based on Latin Titanius meaning "of the Titans". This name was  used by Shakespeare in his comedy 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595) where it is the name of queen of the fairies. This is also a moon of Uranus, named after the Shakespearian character. Our group member consists of Abdul Falakh Zafrieyl, Albinus Arbut, Angela Devung Dennis, Elfera Achin and Kelly Katty Jameson. We love English Studies subject and we are improving every day..