week 4 (27th-2nd)

 

This week was mainly looking at different style to act and how we can bring ourselves as an actor to the character more and how to make them more realistic.

First it was hard to become Anne as i couldn’t put myself into the mind farm of having disease that bad, so in my group we tried to act it like the swin-flu was around again. Even though it wasn’t as bad as the plague, it sat the mind to be aware for the stuff your character touches with in the wardrobe. This began to help me become the character Anne.

 While reading over the script normally we though the story was that the plague was around and Anne never can have her dream of being on stage. So as an whole class we did a task that put beats into the script; these beats are just small pause when saying sentence. As group we then showed it back to the rest of the class and we found that where I put the beats into the script, it was much like me and not Anne. As myself that when talking in a conversation I tend to take pause a lot; it became more noticeable when the class picked up on it and mentioned it to me, so for Anne to have the pause in that we original had was not Anne it was me. To solve the problem I went an looked at the script and read over the lines to change in which I’ve done in class.

Dring the week we worked on different states of acting and how we could apply it to our characters these are the key ones that i thought would work as group also as Anne:,

•State 1- Awakening, this state would work for the begin of the play as we are all bored in the wardrobe, so the slight s movement of the body would help to get this across to the audience and i know as myself when I’m bored ill touch my face a lot or move my thumb over the other one and looking around; this is something i can bring to Anne as character. This could one that we all use in a group.

•State 6- Definitely someone is watching you, this could also work with group in the performance as it could work with when Mary and Anne think that Sarah has plague on page 17 and the top of page 18 on the script, as we are both in fear that Sarah has the plague and we do not want it.

•State 9 -the bomb has gone off, this is a good state to have over all as the bomb in the room is that Anne has the plague but has not told anyway as she is hiding it, as she wants to think that her dream will come true this will also work well with state-5 someone watching you; as it helps show paranoia and Anne could show this due to the plague and she don’t want the others to found out that she is carrying it. Also state 7- about to catch a ball this, this works well for Anne as there is something in the air waiting for someone to hear it so like cliff-hanger is the best why i can describe it.