The Outsiders
Hello and welcome back to my blog! Today I’ll be going over our most recent exhibition. This winter exhibition was the biggest exhibition that we’ve had so far since 2019. All PLP grades were there but the grade 8s (my grade) were placed in the library to do tableaux from S.E. Hintons novel, The Outsiders.
At the start of this project it seemed like it wasn’t going to fun at all, I barely understood what was happening in the book and I didn’t like the work we had to do. After we were told our tableaux group I started getting really interested in the tableaux. After my group assigned character roles, majority agreed that I should be the main character, Ponyboy.
The scene we were assigned was the scene where the socs try to drown Ponyboy and Johnny accidentally kills Bob Sheldon, one of the socs. We started brainstorming ideas and we came up with Pony being lifted into a fake fountain by Bob and the other socs and for the second scene we had Pony being held against a tree while Bob was about to choke him. In the second tableaux 2 socs were holding Pony’s arms back. Johnny was about to punch Bob to make him stop choking Pony and while all that was happening we had someone in the front filming the whole thing.
After a few weeks of memorizing and only a few days of creating, we were ready. The night of the exhibition, December 15th. All we had to do was say a few introduction lines, do 2 tableaux of the original scene then an adapted 2021 version.
gif of setup, pretty bad quality ikr
Once we started performing I think most of the performances went really well! A few performances into the exhibition the sheets we used as a backdrop fell so Naomi had to go behind the stage and hold it up until we had a small little break where we could find some tape and let Naomi back into the performance. I think me and my group worked really well together! If I had another project with them I think we’d have a good time. Anyways, go check out their blogs!
Until the next post, bye bye!