In todays lesson we were working on our developing our character and understanding of their part in the text. We started by having to think about the age of the character, their general mood and their occupation. I did this for the Wolf and I decided that he is around 40 years old. Becuase the wolf doesn't have much interaction with many other characters, there was no need to relate the age of the charcter with anybody else. After speaking to other members of the class, I decided that my general mood would be over-friendly and a bit creepy, I thought this because of how in the script he is very quick to speak to Red Riding Hood but his intentions may not be exactly friendly. I thought of portratying the wolf like this because he is a bit overly friendly towards Red Riding Hood becuaese he wants to eat her.
Then we looked at super-objectives for our character. A super-objective is the overall objective that carries the character through the whole play. After talking to other members of the class I decided that my super objective would be to fulfil my appetite. The significance of this is because of the relationship between Red Riding Hood and the Wolf, to him it can be seen as both slightly sexual and also its food, but to her it shows her change from being a young girl to a young woman as she becomes more independent with age, and this is her first real new encounter. This could be taken as food or something else like friendship.
We then split into a group of three and devised a short piece that gave the whole story from the point of view of one of the characters. The character we had was Jack. So we decided to have a lot of focuds on Jack's story and less so on the rest of the characters. We used physical theatre aspects such as having to switch characters very quickly and sometimes playing innamimate objects, such as beanstalks.
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