Running Part Two
While I was offstage, before going on as Nurse, I decided to try and learn my lines, since I have been struggling so much with learning them. Watching Nay as Aaron, with all her lines and cues learnt, makes me panic since she's got such a big part with a lot of lines to learn and I still cannot learn a few short bits.
When I went on as Nurse, I didn't know very much on how to play the character, therefore I just found myself with a script in my hand, standing in neutral and speaking my lines. I didn't feel good about this performance whatsoever however Ben did end up complimenting me on how I held neutral well. I feel as this scene will get better and seem more realistic once Ben has blocked it properly.
There was a scene where Ben wanted the Goths to be onstage, making up this crowd of supporters. I went up although it seemed that none of us really knew what we were doing so we were just standing there; again, I think it will look a lot more effective when Ben blocks this section - if I was directing this scene, I would use physical theatre when Hannah orders to take someone away so that there could be a slick looking lift.
Changing at Punctuation
After running through the last part of the play, Ben gave us an exercise to do about changing the tone of your voice, and the energy you put in when you say it, each time you spot a piece of punctuation.
I chose my first section of dialogue in the play to experiment with. Strangely, this really taught me ways to learn my speech and also the power I could show myself possessing through my voice.
Ben then gave us a new instruction; he said to change your physicality after each line. Although doing this looked very bad, I can appreciate what he meant since it shows a new thought and change of direction showing that the dialogue/speech goes through a journey.
Animal Research
After break, we began to do work based on our animal research. Ben gave us an example of what he wanted us to do. He started with breath and then moved on to bringing it into his physicality through things like his spine. This was really effective to watch although I couldn't find much information about my animals' spines and breath so I had to do it based on what I thought it would be.
I chose the animal of a Bull Terrier to work with. Dogs have very panting breath so I worked with that although it was quite awkward to do it properly when the whole class was completely silent; also, it was very tiring to maintain as I am not used to working my breath as hard as that. I then moved onto the spine so I got onto all fours and kept my spine straight, with a slight arch. When we began moving around, I looked at everyone with a lot of judgement and violence in my eyes, showing that I was a violent dog ready to attack. When Ben made the noise where we had to react to, I found myself standing in the front, staring at him. Thinking back at this, I should've run to attack, barking, since that's what dogs usually do.
We then became animal-like humans. I maintained the same features with a slower walk than usual, taking care with each step. We then had to walk across the room, in front of everyone, and 'greet' them when you got to the middle. I found this quite hard as Fifi started smiling at me when I was trying to maintain my seriousness.
I found this exercise to be quite helpful in finding new characteristics in my character that I didn't know I had before that I can now use to help to build my character.
Changing at Punctuation
After running through the last part of the play, Ben gave us an exercise to do about changing the tone of your voice, and the energy you put in when you say it, each time you spot a piece of punctuation.
I chose my first section of dialogue in the play to experiment with. Strangely, this really taught me ways to learn my speech and also the power I could show myself possessing through my voice.
Ben then gave us a new instruction; he said to change your physicality after each line. Although doing this looked very bad, I can appreciate what he meant since it shows a new thought and change of direction showing that the dialogue/speech goes through a journey.
Animal Research
After break, we began to do work based on our animal research. Ben gave us an example of what he wanted us to do. He started with breath and then moved on to bringing it into his physicality through things like his spine. This was really effective to watch although I couldn't find much information about my animals' spines and breath so I had to do it based on what I thought it would be.
I chose the animal of a Bull Terrier to work with. Dogs have very panting breath so I worked with that although it was quite awkward to do it properly when the whole class was completely silent; also, it was very tiring to maintain as I am not used to working my breath as hard as that. I then moved onto the spine so I got onto all fours and kept my spine straight, with a slight arch. When we began moving around, I looked at everyone with a lot of judgement and violence in my eyes, showing that I was a violent dog ready to attack. When Ben made the noise where we had to react to, I found myself standing in the front, staring at him. Thinking back at this, I should've run to attack, barking, since that's what dogs usually do.
We then became animal-like humans. I maintained the same features with a slower walk than usual, taking care with each step. We then had to walk across the room, in front of everyone, and 'greet' them when you got to the middle. I found this quite hard as Fifi started smiling at me when I was trying to maintain my seriousness.
I found this exercise to be quite helpful in finding new characteristics in my character that I didn't know I had before that I can now use to help to build my character.
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