On this blog, you can follow your students' progression through our Fall 2016 "Building Stories With Word Elf" class! Each week Caitlin will post a little about what we did in class, and what's coming up in the following week. Feel free to comment with any questions, or email Caitlin directly at ensotheatre@gmail.com. Thank you! We are so excited to have your students in our class! WHAT: Learning becomes the Most. Exciting. Thing. EVER! in this innovative class for 5 and 6-year-olds. Over ten weeks, students will explore a variety of storytelling forms with instructor Caitlin Lushington and her invisible friend, The Word Elf. Students will embrace the concept of "Yes, and...!" in sharing and creating their story ideas. Caitlin’s good friend, the Word Elf (an invisible Elf that LOVES words!) will bring each student a new word/concept each week related to the theater, storytelling and ensemble-building. At the end of the class,students will present a showcase of the stories they've created and the games/exercises they've learned to family and friends. Here are just a few of the awesome story forms we’ll be exploring: ~Clowning ~Puppetry ~Storyboards ~Movement & Tableaus ~Word-At-A-Time-Stories ~Guided Imaginative Play ~and so much more! You can follow your students’ progress through our online blog using the “Word Elf” category. Updated weekly. INSTRUCTOR: Caitlin Lushington (and her invisible friend, The Word Elf!) WHEN: October 3rd* - December 8th Tuesdays & Thursdays 3:30-4:30pm WHERE: TBD TUITION: $200 (that’s $10/class!)** *The first 15 minutes of our first day of class, parents are invited to a brief informational welcome meeting. **We never refuse a student on the basis of financial need. Please email us at ensotheatre@gmail.com with the subject line "Word Elf Financial Help" to inquire about financial assistance and payment plans. THE MAGICAL WORLD OF FAN (The Podcast!) The Word Elf is from an incredible place filled with adventures called The Magical World of FAN (Fantastical Areas of Invention). In this magical world you can be anyone and do anything. The only rules are: 1. Have fun! 2. Be nice! 3. Try something new! 4. YES! AND.... Caitlin and the Word Elf have been on all sorts of adventures together in the Magical World of Fan. She is recording some of them and will be releasing a new one each month. Here is our first demo episode: ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORCaitlin Lushington is a teacher, director, actress and master fort-builder. She has been creating classes for children since she was 9 and has worked with a wide variety of ages, from toddlers to college students. Recent teaching opportunities have been with Enso Theatre Ensemble, NorthWest Children’s Theatre, Oregon Conservatory of Performing Arts and Castro Valley Dramatic Arts Academy. Caitlin has also been a professional nanny for the last four years and has steadily learned how to blend lesson plans into fort-building days with her kids. Teaching is what gets Caitlin up in the morning and she is eager to create a well-rounded program with Enso. She is a firm believer in taking time to breathe, and the motto, "One day at a time."
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There's a lot of mushy speech in this section where Liz is all, "So how did YOU fall in love with ME?" and Darcy's all "But how did YOU fall in love with ME?" and it's wonderful but exhausting and you get the idea.
Mr. Bennet lets Mr. Collins know promptly that Elizabeth and Darcy are engaged, and he advises him to start sucking up to Darcy, not Lady C---because, news alert, Darcy has WAY more money than Lady C. And the rest of them? Well:
And that, as they say, is the end of that. THANK YOU SO MUCH to everyone that has followed this thing to its conclusion!! Send us a comment or a like if you'd be interested in a paraphrased version of our next full-length adaptation, ROMEO AND JULIET. So...where exactly did Lady Catherine get the idea that Liz and Darcy were a thing?
Not that they're a thing. Yet. Maybe. Hopefully. But probably not. Right? And then Dad Bennet calls Lizzie in and congrats her on schmoozing with the big D. How does HE know?? Collins. Collins wrote to Mr. Bennet saying "Hey! Congrats on Jane's engagement and I'm slightly worried about Lizzie's engagement to the big D--Lady Catherine came over for tea this afternoon and smashed all of the tea cups in the house. Seemed like maybe she was mad about something, and all she kept saying was "Elizabeth!! RAWR!!! Darcy!! RAWR!!!" I eventually figured it out....sooooo maybe can you not have your daughter marry Mr. Darcy, so that I can keep my dishes in tact?" Mr. Bennet thinks this is the funniest sh** he has ever read. Elizabeth does not know what to feel. So what does she do? YOU GUESSED IT: SHE WALKS!! And actually she ends up going on a walk with Bingley and Jane and Darcy. And when both Elizabeth and Darcy about to vomit from the cuteness eminating from the general direction of Jangley, they take a different path and find themselves alone. DARCY: My aunt. LIZZIE: Yup. DARCY: I'm so so sorry. LIZZIE: After what you've done for Jane, for Lydia, for all of us, I can forgive the occasional impropriety of your familial relations. Because mine are completely proper in every way, of course. DARCY: Of course....You know, it was for you. (breath) If you still feel the way you did last April, say so. My feelings have not changed. LIZZIE: You could say, potentially, that things have changed. DARCY: Things? LIZZIE: Feelings. DARCY: Um...so.... LIZZIE: YOU'RE AMAZING AND I ADORE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU EVEN THE PARTS THAT DRIVE ME TOTALLY INSANE AND I WANT TO SPEND THE REST OF OUR LIVES HEADBUTTING WITH EACH OTHER AND BEING STUBBORN AND STUPID FOREVER TOGETHER. Or something like that. Lizzie finds out that Lady Catherine is actually responsible for Darcy giving it one more go. On her way back home, she reached out to Darcy and told him how her conversation with Elizabeth had gone, hoping to convince him that Lizzie is a total wild animal. And she did convince him of that, but not in a bad way, and her story also hinted to Darcy that Lizzie might actually like him. Thanks Auntie. So now the only thing that's left is to tell the Bennets, and get Mr. Bennet's blessing for the marriage. This is not as easy as it might sound On the one hand, Mrs. Bennet could hate it because she hates Mr. Darcy. On the other hand she could love it because Darcy is rich. Darcy talks to Mr. Bennet. Mr. Bennet talks to Elizabeth. "I mean, he's rich, certainly. But will you be happy, Lizzie?" "Yeah, I think so, Dad. I'm in love with him." Needless to say Mr. Bennet is knocked off his rocker. He can see she means it. "Then I heartily give my consent." And it's only then that Elizabeth reveals to him the full extent of what Darcy has done for the family. Mr. B is knocked off his rocker and rolling on the floor. (not literally) The Dad-half settled, Lizzie now works on her mother. "So...we're engaged." "AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH MY LIZZIE MARRIED OMG OMG OMG OMG YOU WILL BE SO RICH! SO MANY CARRIAGES! GAHAAAAAAAAAAA I'M SO HAPPY MY LIZZIE, MY LIZZIE MARRIED TO MR. DARCY!!!!" Nothing to worry about there. This week's chapters were written by Caitlin Lushington. NEXT WEEK: We wrap it all up. |