Ok, really should be attempting to do these the night i get home from uni but that requires way to much scruitization but this went for about 2 hours, now to remember what the hell did we do?

I remember we started off with lookign at circles of attention in which we had to choose an object preferably something that would better suit the characters we were playing, again this was still the same scene from Shopping and Fucking.  We had to act through the scene, keeping to the words as best as possible but to focus on that object throughout the performance.  The idea was that this playing with an object removes alot of the nervous tension which can be seen in an actors stance or gait when they have nothing to do sence they have something to focus on and also to help create depth to the character which can be realised through gestures or actions made with that item which are hopefully smbolic of them  or the scenes purpose.

The next acticity we stayed in the same groups as we had been and we were delving into finding the characters objective in the scene and minor objectives through the units of action in the scene.  So within our groups we tlaked through the scene and discussed what our characters wanted, after this was complete we stood up and walked aorund the space a little then confronted our group members looking them in the eyes we told them what we wanted in a way which conveyeed exactly what it was the characters wanted.  After doing this for how ever long we were asked to form into 3 groups consiting of the Lulu’s, Marks and Robbies and then one at a time we all told the class what we wanted.  Glenn spoke briefly about this excercise dicussioning that its purpose revolves around getting to understand what the characters want from eahc other, the scene and showing slightly their emotional involvement with each other.

The next exercise involved breaking up into pairs taking tha largest chunk in the scene, which is when Mark is telling the story of how all three of them meet when he purchased them off a fat man in a super market.  For the excercise one of the pair had to read through the text while the other spoke about what they were thinking about.  When i undertook this i was constantly thinking of the images that were occuring like the supermarket or the flat or the fat guy and occansionally feelings about what was happening.  I’m not completly sure about the exact purpose of this excercise but i guess it falls into the same category of knowing exactly what the character is thinking at every moment during the scene which transcends the acter into the place of that character i guess.

The final exercise we undertook involved using emotional stimulas from our own lives to fuel our characters emotion.  Firstly we asked to thinki of a time when we were pissed off and go over sit by ourselves and write down what happened, how we felt, where it was, what was said in order to try and recreate the moment to its full exactness.  One of the group was asked to volunteer, Danni voluntered and went down, had to pcik a place to keep eye contact gaze focused on and begin telling her moment.  After awhile she became quite pissed off and it actually made me feel very unnerved and edgy.  Another volunteer was asked to come up and repeat the process except after they had reached a point jump in and start delivering a moment from the text in which one of the characters was pissed off, she did this and to no avail it worked really well and again made me feel edgy and un nerved.  I think this technique would be extremely useful if i was unable to find the emotional attribute required for a certain character.

This week we are meant to be reading a few plays and lookign for scenes we may want to undertake for our major scene study, there could be one or two per group but in total it can’t be longer then 7minutes.  The process which we have been undertaking has been a short hand, revised and totally cut stanislaski mthod of dealing with a text and if used continusly with a group can result in some great perfromances with exceptional depth and excellence. So next week we get to start on the process finishes all this.