Lesson 2

In yesterdays lesson we were put into small groups and had to take 8 lines from the play. These 8 lines could be repeated as many time as we wanted and using these words we had to create a completely different scene which didn't have anything to do with the play.

My Groups lines were:

Everything went black.
Blackout.
Imagine.
It was like being in a dream.
You dirty beast.
You shake your head.
Death to the gimp.
Death to the gimp.
Death to the gimp.
DEATH TO THE GIMP!
You open your eyes.

Due to only having a few lines we decided to add physical theatre into our piece to make it more interesting and enjoyable to watch. We decided to base our scene on nightmares. We performed our scene end on so we could perform our physical theatre and not having to worry about our backs being towards the audience.

Doing this exercise was good because we were able to give a meaning to the line when delivered we also saw how lines can be interpreted in different ways. Also we were able to understand that every line said was important and there were no throw away lines.

Also because we watched other peoples scenes we were able to see the physical theatre they had decided to use and how it could be used in our actual performance. Using physical theatre meant we could show things that had not been said and because the play is a stream of consciousness physical theatre made the scene seem dream like and unreal, however it was very effective.

Finally we were able to explore different Theatrical configurations and discuss which worked best. I particularly found interesting the In the round configuration because it meant that everyone had at least on person to focus on and the physical theatre could be seen from all directions. However some people also used Immersive which was interesting because it wasn't expected and the audience felt involved with the performance. Finally some people used a three sided stage, I found this to be very effective because it gave you a different view of the physical theatre and everything was positioned so you could see it from all three sides.