Week 2 & 3: Penelope, Sticks & Objectives

NOTES: 

Walking on being fresh and active is very important, you can't walk in and repeat what you've done, you need to relive it, re-feel not repeat.  

No pirate opinion, not being all "argh!" when something happens and becoming a sheep but having an intention and character behind your words, so that we are creating a world rather than a ridiculous ideas. 

When you feel awkward that's a good thing, because it means that your character hasn't fully developed and its a clear indicator for what you need to develop on. 

Should have an objective every moment on stage, even if its simple, and so that means that everything you' do is, again, backed up, with what you are trying to get out of the scene with. 

Got to have physical and imaginative detail when moving blocks, because transitions make the play and so that makes our play interesting and developed.  

Research


Workshop today taught me to research further into the words from my speeches, and to fly understand the history and or mythology behind the words used by Shakespeare. 

"You would be another Penelope, yet they say all the yarn she spun in Ulysses' absence did but fill the Ithaca full of moths."  

I went and did further research in how to bring the language into m character and cultivate a realistic one. I did this through exploration of learning Shakespeare and language that is effective for it. 

Fight Notes:

Jump Zion and then take her down she kicks me off and then takes me down and after that 

she strangles me pulls my hair I elbow her and then after I kick we twice she dies 

For the choreographed fight scene as I switched into a

Volscian character to adjust numbers-wise in order for it to 

look effective we had to arrange one together in pairs.


Initially, I jump onto Zion, viciously hopping onto her back 

taking her down onto the ground. She then kicks me off,

pushing my stomach without inflicting pain and thus, I am

pushed back onto my back and i begin to crawl away, then 

she strangles me as I resist and we begin to pull away from 

each other she grips my hair and I elbow her. She then falls 

backward and I safely kick her onto her side and then she

creates a nap and so she doesn't injure herself at all.


What have I learnt, not only directly from what I have been

told, but from others also?:

1. Organising the group fight, and measuring the distance took a while, the sticks meant we had to be even more sure of the distance and so we would never be able to make contact with others, and so measuring the distance meant that we would be safe.
2. Awareness of the reality, and why looks effective. This is because of the effort we have made to create a world where everything is worth something, and our ability to inflict pain if we aren't aware of the others around us.
3. I will "appear and fight" this is my cue line to get back up to life.
4. Awkward on stage is a good flag to tell you to do more work on your character, so when I feel uncomfortable on stage I need to do more work, if i don't know why Im on stage then I need to find out my physical objectives for every line. Also the objectives need to be simple, one word so that it isn't intellectual.
5. The need to have a character and a life to change into, whilst not being your main character, and creating a mood board of places that war has passed through to enable it to be effective scenery that we can envisage, and having real and backed up emotions for even the slightest appearance on stage.

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