For my audition Lauren, Lucy and I performed the opening scene from Teecher. I think the audition went well, I had lots of energy and enthusiasm. However if I were to do the audition again, I would do it off script as I think it weakened my audition.
In small groups we discussed teachers from our school. We discussed their personalities, gestures, the way they spoke, posture, ways of moving and there appearance. We then used this to take part in a workshop audition where we improvised a scene as teacher's in a staff room, we used the notes we made on teacher's from our school as stimuli. This helped me to get into role as an older character and understand the differences between how young people and old people move.
On Thursday we found out who we had been cast as. I found that I had been cast as Gail Saunders.
We then did a full script read though. My first impression of the script was that there was a lot of humour in it. Also that we could put a lot of physical humour in it. Then in our casts we discussed the 10 most important moments in the play, and used them as stimuli to create still images. This helped me to get into character as I was able to play about with different postures and body language. Also it helped me to under the most important points in the play and how Gail would react to them.
We then did an off-text improvisation of the school disco scene. This helped me think about how Gail would act with the teachers and the pupils. Also it helped me to get into character, because I was able to think about how she would walk, her posture, any gestures she might have and also her vocal mannerism. I was able to play about with them more because I wasn't warring about my lines and trying to follow along to story line as it was improvisation.
In small groups we discussed teachers from our school. We discussed their personalities, gestures, the way they spoke, posture, ways of moving and there appearance. We then used this to take part in a workshop audition where we improvised a scene as teacher's in a staff room, we used the notes we made on teacher's from our school as stimuli. This helped me to get into role as an older character and understand the differences between how young people and old people move.
On Thursday we found out who we had been cast as. I found that I had been cast as Gail Saunders.
We then did a full script read though. My first impression of the script was that there was a lot of humour in it. Also that we could put a lot of physical humour in it. Then in our casts we discussed the 10 most important moments in the play, and used them as stimuli to create still images. This helped me to get into character as I was able to play about with different postures and body language. Also it helped me to under the most important points in the play and how Gail would react to them.
We then did an off-text improvisation of the school disco scene. This helped me think about how Gail would act with the teachers and the pupils. Also it helped me to get into character, because I was able to think about how she would walk, her posture, any gestures she might have and also her vocal mannerism. I was able to play about with them more because I wasn't warring about my lines and trying to follow along to story line as it was improvisation.
We also discussed what we wanted the audience to get from the play. I think they should be thinking about there time at school. Did they get the most out of it, could they have tried harder. We also what them to see how influential one man can be to a whole school. He changed Gail, Salty and Hobbys life's. And maybe when the audience leaves they could be thinking about people who was influential in there life's, or if they were influential in other peoples life's.
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