The Curious Incident- 29th september

Today in the lesson we began with some trust exercises to build up our confidence in each other. we began by walking round with a partner. one person having there eye closed and one holding there elbow and guiding them and then we let go and had to sense each other. we then began doing some lifts that we wanted to involve in our piece and we worked on these. we then continued with the script from where we left of and added more movement to the scenes. my target for next lesson is to try and involve more movement in what i do as my character.

The Curious Incident- 25th september

Today we began by running what we had so far and running to where we had previously got up to. We then began on our scenes again and all had to create Judy’s house in 2 groups. In our group we created the house with our bodies and as people moved into the house we moved forward to make the house bigger. We did this as we are using minimal set on stage. This created the effect of having different rooms on our stage without a lot of detail having to be shown. My target for next lesson is try to use more physical theatre in the peace to create different effects in the performance.

The Curious Incident- 23rd September

Today we began by adding more movement to a scene where we became a lot faster and more vigorous pushing of each other and projecting each other in opposite directions this showed how aggressive Christopher get when he is faced with someone touching him as he doesn't like it because of his aspergers syndrome. We then got into smaller group creating scene so we could share our idea we then performed them. I was in a group with Carl who plays Christopher and Tom who plays Ed. in our group we worked on the scene where Ed finds Christopher book. we created this by putting Christoper and my character Siobhan in the foreground talking while Ed was in the back ground. this created the feeling that a lot happens behind your back. My target for next lesson is to improve on the scene that we created to make it more interesting.

The Curious Incident- 22nd September

Today we began by creating sound scape which was each of us saying a mathematical equation mixed with movement where we walked around pushing off of each other without touch and covering away doing this 5 times each then cowering in a ball to create a scene which showed Christopher mind this is to go at the beginning of the play. I felt this went well as it showed Christopher trail of thought and what he's thinking about all the time. We then began to act out the script in anyway we wanted  which helped us with learning our characters and also added some mime while the narration took place. My target for next lesson is to distinguish between my character Siobhan’s narration and her direct speech so that I can change my tone of voice so it suits the context i'm in.