24th Febuary Lesson

In this lesson we looked at the goat scene. Before we looked at it we looked at sorting out a level from one to ten on our characters social status. Me and Luke both had different ideas so we did not end up on the same level. I put the goat as level 3 because of his bad intentions in this scene and that the way he treats Lisa is poor and becuase is is almost sly and secretive, it has an element of sleaziness about it. Luke put the Goat at around a level 5 because he felt that although the Goat is sleazy, it isn't as bad as I thought it was. 

I felt that as well as this is my biggest scene in the play, is is also the most challenging because it has my most lines, which I am finding hard to get in the right order, and also needs the most movement. Another challenge in this scene is the mature content and it touches on some very adult ideas that I personally haven't had to portray on stage, so we all had to make sure we dealt with it in a grown up and respectful way so that it comes across to the audience in a professional way. We all decided that we would not show anything explicit on stage but just to suggest it. 

When blocking this scene i was making notes in my script so that I know where on stage I need to be as well as what movements I need to do. I start off on one of the stage blocks on the corner of the stage, when we rehearse this further I will think about the different ways I can react to Lisa being there and how I can be subtle about it as not to draw attention. Because I am going to be high up at the very back of the stage I will need to make sure that I am projecting properly so that I can be heard, this is something I can work on outside of rehearsals whilst running lines, and doing projection exercises. 

I was really happy with what we managed to run through today and I am not comfortable with being able to put movements to my lines when learning them.