Interpreting Characters - 20/11/14

In today's lesson, I was very pleased with all the work I got done. We did some warm ups and started getting to work on the play straight away. I was partnered up with Ellis and we had to include speech for the passenger in the taxi for the prologue of the play "Tales Of The East End". We needed to insert some dialogue so that there would be a conversation between the taxi driver and the passenger. This way, the script made a lot more sense. It was quite difficult to find appropriate questions to add in at certain points of the script. We read through the script many times so that we were able to come up with different questions for the passenger to ask.

After this, we were put into groups and assigned a tale to study. My group was given tale 3. We had to draw the outline of a person and write about their interior and exterior. We wrote about how he was feeling, how he came across to others and words & quotes that had been used to describe him in the play. Following on from this task, our group had to perform a piece of theatre where we interpreted the character and showed his emotions and feelings. At the beginning, Amaia spoke about what she had done and how she was covering up. A few of us created a cage over her using our arms. We then started shouting guilt and other words to describe the character. I then shouted "Murderer" and the scene came to a stop. Our peers gave us very good feedback and said that our piece looked effective. I enjoyed creating the piece and thought that the performance of it went very well.