Lesson 3 - 20.11.14

Lesson 3 - 20.11.14

Task 2

We didn't manage to do task 2 as Mr Worden was not teaching us on Thursday.  However here is my homework he set us:

Task 3

In groups of 5 or 6 we re-read Tale 6 and underlined all the people mentioned in the script. eg:

Individually we decided on a character and created a Role-On-The-Wall. This is the sheet we created it on: 

We then had to develop these characters and work in groups to devise a completely improvised pieces on how the character exists out of the play. My group developed scene 6 and because there were 4 of us who chose the "Hard Sly Man" as  our characters, we used that to our advantages and used our improvisation skills to create a piece where each of us would come downstage and individually talk briefly about the man's life and the troubles he goes through. The part that I said was: 

"Ever since I've come out of jail, I can't see my little girl. She means everything to me. My mum is terminally ill but no one really understands."

This helped me develop skills such as: decision of movement, improvisation, performing by myself and projection.

As my character I put on a typical East London accent, spoke a bit deeper and decided to push my chest out as he described as muscular, but I also walked with a bit of a slouch. I made these choices because the information on my role-on-the-wall was accurate from the script. It was also what I analysed from my own interpretation.
My group's piece consisted of a short monologue delivered by Roseby playing the Landlady. I also acted as a bed for the Landlady so we added in a bit of physical theatre. After Roseby's monlogue, Eric, Alabama, Jamie and I, who were playing the Hard Sly Man, all performed our short parts. After our group piece, Jed finished off with a monologue and he was playing the dying mother of the "Hard Sly Man". The actors then playing the Hard Sly Man all took it in turn to say something to the mother, but the it was as if there was a barrier between the mother and son.

I think these characters were effective characters because they all linked together in some way. I think our scene helped us feel more sympathy for the Hard Sly Man and the Landlady as we really got an insight on how both the characters are misunderstood. This is definitely going to help my understanding of these characters in the long wrong.

This is the criteria that we used to assess ourselves on the last task: