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The battle of Miller’s Schoolhouse
And talking about competition, the battle in “Brave heart” paled in comparison with the recent Stage Combat and Safety class.
Brad Waller put the young combatants to the test, expecting them to actually choreograph, (organized and mapped out movement) a battle. There they were two gangs of pirates lurking on the walls of Miller’s School House and at the signal their battle raged. Blood-thirsty rogues finding blood-curdling cries somewhere in their young bodies. Their swashbuckling, movements: three high-lows, two step-lows, four high-stepcrosses culminated in the agreed upon thrust, which sent one of them down, while the other came in for the kill. By the end of the session half of the 30 students had uttered their last death moan while the other half stood triumphant over their prey.
Brad’s instructions were: you must plan and agree on each move; you should write them down and never deviate; you must practice them over and over again, slowly and gaining speed with each rehearsal; and finally, find whatever pain works for you to get out that final moan. But asked what they were imagining the fight was about there was more poetry that power. One young female actor said it was a fight between a butterfly and a dandelion. As Brad told her, “Whatever works for you. dear” T j>at. week we had two casual
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