Today we learnt about putting emotion behind words. As Shakespearian language is quite hard to understand sometimes, it is important to use emotion behind words. So that the mean comes across clearly to the audience. We started by splitting off into pairs and shouting insults at each other. We started to add movement and physical theatre, in my pair Fran and I decided to circle around each other, this will work well if we were to perform the scene in the round because it allows all the audience to see our facial expressions and also built a lot of tension.
We then used the insults we had collected as homework to make a scene. For our scene we decided to have 2 rival families that have trespassed on Fran and I's land. I think after showing it back that our scene needed more emotion and movement which would have helped the audience understand the insults and story line.
We used the Reduced Shakespeare Company as stimuli and devised a 5 minute long version of A Midsummer Night's Dream, this helped people understand the story line more and also how the characters are related. I suggested that we keep it very Brectian and we discussed wearing signs with our characters name on it so that the audience can clearly see who we are.
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