In today's lesson we did a few exercises that helped me to develop my understanding of the play and more character development.
We first did a warm up where we had to imagine that we were late for work and walk around the room. We weren't allowed to make contact with anyone because we had to be realistic, no-one would start talking to each other on a busy road. I find that this exercise helped me to think in a naturalistic way when acting. Not everything has to be over the top and exaggerated for the audience to understand what's going on.
The next task we did was a debate, the class was split into two and we had to debate over racial division and whether it's a good or bad thing and why. I didn't contribute but I listened intently to what every spokesperson had to say. The debate was actually really interesting because it made me think about the problems in the news and society today. Recent topics did spring up in the debate like the outbreak of Ebola, 9/11 and UKIP. This task also helped my character (Lynette) because when all the reasons for why racial division is good were being explained, I could really feel Lynette agreeing to every single one, so it's like I got to see inside her head of what she thought of everything politically.
My performance is this Thursday night, I'm more excited than nervous, but still nervous. It will be my first performance whilst studying at Brit! I can really feel that my characterisation is improving and the only thing I need to work on for my performance is to be able to raise my voice so that when I shout it's much louder than when I say my other lines!
- Matilda ^_^
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