Devising- Monday 21st September

Today in the lesson we looked again at voice and specifically for me working on emotion in my voice and focusing myself into the zone where I could channel my emotion to the audience. Our topic for today was just for us 3 girls and it was women in the war and Mr Webb wanted me to play a middle class women whose husband was in the war. He wanted me to play the character as an emotional, scared women whose husband was the love of her life and they had been together since a young age. Meg played a lower class women who had little feeling for her husband and was forced into marriage and Freya played an upper class women who was married through money but really she does have some feeling for her husband. Freya played her character with very dark humor. sarcastic and she opened her mouth without thinking which caused me to get upset. Through out the scene each of us expressed our character in different ways so you could tell the classes they were from. Mr Webb then stopped the performance and handed each of us a letter. Mine read that my husband was missing in action and that they will return his body when they find him. I began to sob while Meg laughed as her husband had been shot in the bottom. This was really hard as we had to be spontaneous and think how our character would react and show this to our audience in the right way. I found this really hard but managed to show my character in the correct way and I asked the audience if they felt my pain and they agreed.