Monday:
We spent the first lesson pairing up with others and we were given instructions to make them move forwards and to the side around the room whilst they stood in front of us with their eyes closed making it a trust exercise. After this we were told to pretend we were going to enter a room of our choosing and react to the objects or people inside. There were some people pretending they were on a secret mission and then people like me who were reacting to coming home from work and seeing a couch with the television on. After this we sat in a circle and Rob acted us for which characters we were interested in being and I said Chebuchtykin. This would be because I liked the characters background in being a doctor yet he is so misunderstood because he doesn't remember much from medical school and he is quite depressed as his life has lead nowhere at all, yet he still hangs onto life. Beside the way the character is presented I saw how he was played in a theatrical version of the play and I thought it was absolutely brilliant and would be a challenge I was up for! We then read the play for a while and some people took turns in reading different roles due to wanting to try out more than one character. We ended the lesson by playing a game at which one person is sent out the room and everyone else has to pick which celebrity they are, and so when they re-enter the room people need to make it as subtle as possible but say things to the person that relate to the celebrity they are. If they get it they win. This was a fun game to play and made us all bond too and have many laughs.
Sharon:
In Sharons lesson we began by casting the characters. I was usually the director but for today I decided that I wanted to play John to better understand the characters and their relationship dynamics. Playing John I felt I did an alright job considering the director at the time didn't make much criticism but I was told to maybe react more with my environment. Watching others in the scene you could see some mistake that you may not have seen as the director due to being too tense with that responsibility. One thing that I had realized was that some characters were walking in front of each other and other characters were just plainly reading the script and not trying to become the character like what Stan tried to do. There was a continuous vibe of family and oneness when watching which was great. We then looked the last three pages of the page in the end and discussed our findings. The lesson then ended(Talking about my notes)
We spent the first lesson pairing up with others and we were given instructions to make them move forwards and to the side around the room whilst they stood in front of us with their eyes closed making it a trust exercise. After this we were told to pretend we were going to enter a room of our choosing and react to the objects or people inside. There were some people pretending they were on a secret mission and then people like me who were reacting to coming home from work and seeing a couch with the television on. After this we sat in a circle and Rob acted us for which characters we were interested in being and I said Chebuchtykin. This would be because I liked the characters background in being a doctor yet he is so misunderstood because he doesn't remember much from medical school and he is quite depressed as his life has lead nowhere at all, yet he still hangs onto life. Beside the way the character is presented I saw how he was played in a theatrical version of the play and I thought it was absolutely brilliant and would be a challenge I was up for! We then read the play for a while and some people took turns in reading different roles due to wanting to try out more than one character. We ended the lesson by playing a game at which one person is sent out the room and everyone else has to pick which celebrity they are, and so when they re-enter the room people need to make it as subtle as possible but say things to the person that relate to the celebrity they are. If they get it they win. This was a fun game to play and made us all bond too and have many laughs.
Sharon:
In Sharons lesson we began by casting the characters. I was usually the director but for today I decided that I wanted to play John to better understand the characters and their relationship dynamics. Playing John I felt I did an alright job considering the director at the time didn't make much criticism but I was told to maybe react more with my environment. Watching others in the scene you could see some mistake that you may not have seen as the director due to being too tense with that responsibility. One thing that I had realized was that some characters were walking in front of each other and other characters were just plainly reading the script and not trying to become the character like what Stan tried to do. There was a continuous vibe of family and oneness when watching which was great. We then looked the last three pages of the page in the end and discussed our findings. The lesson then ended(Talking about my notes)
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