Today's lesson began with one of the duologues between Mark and Jan - I think Will and Taylor work very well together, the chemistry they between each other onstage is immense and their duologues are always very entertaining to watch. However in this particular duologue, they need to work on cutting each other off and interjecting each other at the right times, because sometimes we lose the effect of the cut off.
After this, Mr Webb had chat with us regarding our performances as actors - specifically in this play. He said we really need to look into our characters and the emotions/feelings our character would feel at each point. In a nut shell, he was basically just saying our acting, emotions and reactions need to be more in-depth and believable. He mentioned that when we first read through the script, we didn't know that Adam was never actually dead, so when we got to the part where it is revealed that Adam is not dead, our reactions were real and genuine; so we all just need to work on this. I believe it simply comes down to knowing your character inside out - I intend to do a lot of research on Danny over the course of the next few weeks. Mr Webb commented on how our character evolve (or in some cases, de-evolve) throughout the play. He said about the irony of Danny going out dental college and worrying about not getting in throughout the whole play, but then by the end he goes to do work experience as a dentist and hates it.
After this, we then ran through from the top with focus on our characterisation - I decided to mainly focus on what Danny would be doing/reacting to what else is going on in the scene when I am not in the main focus. for example, in scene 1 with Danny, Lou and John Tate, the whole first page of that part I have no lines so it is essential for me to be thinking of what my character would be doing. When we ran through this, I decided to be fiddling with grass or leaves or anything I can find to show that I have a short attention span and easily amused/distracted, plus also walking around in a very small area looking around aimlessly to come across as 'lost'. Once I start with my lines, I don't have much trouble. This scene went very well today, it was very loud and we were really able to bring out the comedy by interjecting at just the right points, and having correctly times pauses.
We got to the part where Leah finally finds out that Adam is dead, and we decided that the whole duologue between Jan and Mark where they describe what happened should be directed an Leah and we staged it in such a way where they are either side of her and they close in on her as they proceed through the duologue for dramatic effect. I think this staging works very well, it seems a lot more interesting to look at as a pose to the way they did before.
As I said before, I will focus on researching my character to further progress in my characterisation.
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