29th April

Today we worked independently and looked at how to block one of our monologues. We started by answering some questions about our character and about the setting of the monologue.

We then used a technique created by Max Stafford Clark called Actioning, this is when you act out the words of the monologue. We did this by pointing at our selves or other characters in the scene, this helped me visualise the scene and work out were people are stood. And also which words I should emphasise. We used a technique called Walking the Line, this helped me focus on the punctuation in the monologue. When I should pause or slow down to emphasise words. Overall I found these exercise really useful for working out how to perform my monologues, and how to block them when I am at home and don't have the other actors with me.

We then briefly looked at Egeus monologue in scene 1. We made it more humorous by keeping in his pointing actions because he is constantly pointing at different characters in the scene. We also added in some looks between my character and Lysander, we then received feedback from the audience saying that the looks between us was very effective and cute because it shows that we are madly in love with each other.