Classical theatre- BRUTUS CHARACTER STUDY

 character study ;

In the original Julius Caesar, Brutus is a supporter of the republic that believes strongly in having a government guided and should be votes of the senators that counts. even thought Brutus loves Julius Caesar as friend; Brutus is opposes the ascension of any single man to the position of dictator therefore he fears that Caesar aspires to such power. Brutus character is very inflexible sense of honour therefore it was easy for Caesar’s enemies to manipulate him to believe that Caesar must die in order to achieve the republican. 

while the conspirators act out of envy and rivalry, that leaves Brutus truly believes that Caesar’s death will benefit Rome; Brutus is the type of person that can separate his complete public life from him private life unlike Caesar. Brutus gives priority to matters of state, therefore he epitomises Roman vitue, he is torn between his loyalty of Caesar and his allegiance to the state therefore this leaves Brutus the tragic hero of the play.

Brutus for my scene;

Name; Brutus 

Age; 25

Placed;  In old Rome somewhere outsides, I imagine with a bench or somewhere to sit. 

Personality; during my scene i play Brutus as a strong mind set and only wants one thing, therefore this leave her impassion quite offend with a tone to the voice when doing so; the reason why i have given my Brutus a strong mind set as i’ve had to transfer Brutus into a women, i gave her a background to her life. This was that as child she got bullied for wanting to be part of government and lead as it was unseal to see in Rome at the time it set. As she grow up she learnt that you had to be strong person not to take notice of what others said therefor eloping feelings towards things to work her way up. 

Body langues; Ive put in tension in to my draw off the mouth to create the look on impassion, i’ve also made her the type of character to alway be quick on the feet therefore she has learnt to stand tall and shoulders back, a type of character that you might see something like this in today society would be a politician. If to look at films you could see some of the body language of Jennifer Lawrence when in the hunger games .

This picture shows the type of tension in the draw and the type of strong minded with the body language with how she stood.

Relationship with other characters;

Julius Caesar - Is part of a conspiracy against Julius Caesar as Brutus done want him to lead.

All the following Characters are linked to Brutus as they are also conspirator with Brutus.

-casca 

-Decius Brutus 

-Cinna

-Metullus Cimber 

-Trebonius 

-Caius Ligrius  

Portia - Brutus Wife in the play.

Cassius - Leader of conspiracy against Julius Caesar along with Brutus.

Shakespeare Blogs Week 1

Blog 1

This week was more of getting back into our characters and running over lines on the first day; as we haven't done shakespeare in while we were doing punk rock. whilst doing this i found that it would be a good idea to try different accent, some of the accents that i tried were;...
Scottish - This i found was not to bad with in my character brutus but i fund that i struggled to keep it Scottish as it kept turning to Irish.
Australian - even though i found this fun to do; but i found this would not fit my character on stage as when performed i felt that it would make the audience laugh to hear shakespeare in Australian accten, also found that when trying to do this that i couldn't build on my character with the accent so it was a no again.

After this we found in our small group to try in a style off to help find different ways to act; this helped with Bradly to found the voice of his character; after this lesson i found to watch people out in public i might found little habits that they do that may help.


over my days off i took to learning my lines and watching youtube clips of people that i though would suit my brutus; when going over lines whir learning them i found that i would play my brutus with a little flirt to caska at first till i get bored and fed up with triteness when my impassions comes out. Therefore I will develop  my brutus into really bold flirty and impassion when it comes to caska.

I will keep of taking notice off people when they are lining up and trying to pick up on small little habits that they do.

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The speech I will perform is from the play Three sisters, that was written by Anton Chekhov that is a Russian playwright. The play was inspired by the situation of the three Brontë sisters. The style of the play is a drama.

The character I have forced on is Irina Sergeyevna Prozorova; she is the youngest sister. Her age being 20 in the play, her insits she is grown-up she is still enchanted by small things such as spinning top that is bought to her by Fedotik; therefore she can sometimes come across as childish. The obly desire that she has is to one day go back to Moscow, which they left 11 years ago before the play starts therefore she was only 9 at the time. The reason why she wants to go back is because she believes that one day that her she will find her true love there; sometime in the play it becomes clear that they are not going back to Moscow, ends up marring someone that she do not love called Baron Tuzenbach. After the speech that I perform she ends up getting her teaching degree and decides to leave Barn and dedicates herself to work and service.

So after the speech I do; it has real effect on her and she manages to complete he ambition.  

Three sisters is a naturalistic play about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the meaning of the modern world, it describes the lives of three sisters and a brother .They is all dissatisfield and frustrated of the present day. The family use Moscow as a symbolic element ; the sisters are always dreaming of returning as they identify Moscon as there happiness as they believe its the perfect life. However as the play develops Moscow never materializes and they all see their dreams recede further and further. Meaning never presents itself and they are forced to seek it out for themselves.

 The reason why I have picked this as speech as I know with my family that there is always that one place that you can relate to that means something to you, therefor e  I can relate back to the play with how they all think of Moscow being there’s.  Also the play is a naturalistic and after weeks of doing this style in other classes (punk rock) I feel that this well show the different skills I have.

 While rehashing this speech at home I found that I fall into a pattern, which can be good but in this case it came as a bad thing as it bought my energy down; therefore to overcome this I had to do different excise such as saying it like a child, whispering, pulling my own body weight and push against a wall. After doing these I found different meaning and different ways to say lines in the speech such as “hard, sweaty, back-breaking work” can me said with tension in the voice where later on when talking about being an ox can be said childish.

 

During this speech i have decied points in my head where i would look, as she is meant to be talking to Olga.