APTA is an event to introduce the new Academy of Performing and Technical Arts to the community. The event will be held at The Margaret Armstrong theatre in Stockton Riverside college. APTA is being developed in order to introduce Performing Arts in Teesside and to support emerging artists. The event will be attended by VIPs, local performers and stakeholders in the college and the Theatre can hold up to 250 people at a time. The event will showcase the talent of the Level 3 Performing Arts (Acting and Musical Theatre) students, Level 3 Production Arts (Makeup and Film and TV Production) students, the CERT HE Technical Arts students and the FdA Performing Arts Students.
Before our lesson with Kelly we had a little brainstorm with Tom and came up with a few ideas around the theme which is Circus. We came up with having a dark side to circus shown which we then discussed in detail with Kelly. We got into small groups and researched characters that are famous when it comes to the circus. This was a very interesting task and I found out a lot that I didn't already know. Characters such as; bearded ladies, knife throwers, tightrope walkers, clowns, animal tamers etc showed up. Our idea was to have an evil ring master/ ring mistress that treated all of the acts terribly. This is a side to the circus that is not usually shown, so we decided to highlight it.
Immediately, I knew that nobody in my class would want to embarrass themselves by being the bearded lady, so what did I do? I volunteered to be the bearded lady. After this lesson, Kelly told us that she would make a script for us and take our ideas into account.
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