Classpage - Madge O'Toole

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Mrs. Madge O'Toole is a well travelled Actor, Director, Improv Teacher, and Playwright who is certified in teaching Lang. Arts and is one of 8 people in the entire state who is certified in Theatre Arts K-12!8th GradeDrama

PLEASE CHECK THE CALENDAR TO FIND OUT WHAT SCENES YOU SHOULD BE PREPARED TO GO OVER IN CLASS!!!!!

Production time is upon us!!! BE SURE TO GET RIDES for May 27th at (6pm) and May 28 (5-8:30pm)!!

We will be working on Improvisational Comedy throughout the year. Best known by the popular show "Whose Line is it Anyway?" hosted by Jim Carrey. I am currently working on creating an IMPROVISATION Club after school. For more information please email me at motoole@region15.org.

Parent's: We are currently in need of support for our upcoming show... We need a few parents to bring in cheese and crackers for the Murder Mystery show, or other easy Hors'deurves for our first fifteen minutes of mingling at the beginning of the show and improvisation. Also, if someone is willing to make a punch to accompany the Hors'deurves, that would be very helpful!! Thank you!

Also parents, Feel free to dress up in your favorite 1920's-1930's costume as you come watch our show!! There will be swing music and dancing in the Library!

Next in class, we will be working on Shakespeare and Elizabethian England. The first project for them that I have is Jaques monologue from As you like it "All the world's a stage..." Your student's will be memorizing and performing this in class. I will also teach them about auditioning techniques, and other helpful hints.

Flashcards are available on this website to help you learn this monologue from William Shakespeare's As You Like It:

Jacques: All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages. At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking* in the nurse's arms.
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover,
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier,
Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard*,
Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the canon's mouth. And then the justice,
In fair round belly with good capon* lined,
With eyes severe and beard of formal cut,
Full of wise saws* and modern instances;
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts
Into the lean and slippered pantaloon*
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide
For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice,
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes
And whistles in his* sound. Last scene of all,
That ends this strange eventful history,
Is second childishness and mere oblivion,
Sans* teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
(As You Like It, 2. 7. 139-167)

Also check the "links" area to get to the website that will help you learn what you are saying in this monologue!!!