WorkShop Exercises 1 6th tue

Exercise 1

Task 1- All Actors told a nursery rhyme to each other from opposite ends of the room - you had to shout there choice of nursery rhyme. Performers had to focus on using their body language to tell and enforce the verbal communication.

How this helped - This helped us by not just understanding what people were saying but also by giving us a clearer picture. Sometime just shouting amongst other voices you might not be heard but by adding action plus sound can help to verify what the performer is saying or what his her her point is.

Task 2 - Actors got into groups and created still images to show characters such as Romeo and Juliet, Cat and Mouse, Sweet and Sour, War and Peace, Rich and Poor.

How this helped - Actors in grouped pairs done similar gestures because I feel everybody wanted to show the stereotypical status of the rich and the poor, every group had the tendisy to have a man or woman on his/her knees with their hand out this was to represent the person begging and the higher status rice person was stood up and had their head in the sky with their nose up. This may not be every poor or rich person’s attitude on this political situation but to show higher and lower status and to make it obvious that was the morgity action. This demonstrated gestus in a way that people want an easy answer. if actors had did a much more deceiving way of representing rich and poor the audience  would have to search more and ask questions more.

A solider with a gun and have the gun pointing at the victim to show his or hers life is going to be taken or a solider with his gun pointing at the victim with a victim already dead this is

Task 3 - An actor played a soldier, they walked on stage, stopped and walked off. Then we added in seven dead bodies, the soldier appeared and disappeared again.

How this was shown clearly - We all knew he was a solider because he did the stereotypical way of showing he was a soldier by having his hands behind his back his confident walk and his body language. After adding the dead bodies we saw what type of solider he was by the action he did. He went round to each dead bodied and kicked them to check if they was completely dead. To me this is showing what type of character or solider he was kind of a sick solider or instant he could of walked over them literally and this could have showed no care or interest weather they are alive nor dead.

Task 4 - All actors created two still images to show opposing gestic images which was war the maker of heroes and war the taker of lives.

what my group did - My group demonstrated a solider with a gun and had the gun pointing at the victim to show his or hers life is going to be taken or a solider with his gun pointing at the victim with a victim already dead this was obvious and basic gesturing of what war the taker of lives is. for the maker of heroes my group had done the next step of what we was showing in war the take of lives we showed to soldiers with a sulout standing next to two dead body and a family member grieving to show they have done there deed this was a way we could explain the two. We also noticed a lot of other groups had done a similar image we could understand there thought process and why.

 

EXAGGERATION

A pair of actors demonstrated a scene between a Doctor and a patient.

The actor who played the doctor to me was trying to play a doctor who wasent helping the patient in the way the paiten wanted to be helped. So giving respones such as "i have other patients who need my help" this is showing the doctor is trying to tell the patient i can't favor you. which is what the other actor was trying to protray as an patient.

 Actors were told to play a stereotype of the characters and to exaggerate them both physically and vocally.

Once actors got the go ahead to be the sterotypical doctor and paitent the physicality automactilly changed and the feel of the scene became more comic than serouse.


When sarah clapped her hands actors had to switch roles.

I feel they had done a job of using the physicality posions because one actor maybe was a paiten on the floor begging the doctor for help then when the hands were clapped it was the doctor supporting the patient. The adudiences reaction was very played on by the actors which made the scence automactilly became more comic.

 

EXAGGERATION

A pair of actors demonstrated a scene between a Doctor and a patient.

The actor who played the doctor to me was trying to play a doctor who wasn’t helping the patient in the way the patient wanted to be helped. So giving response such as "i have other patients who need my help" this is showing the doctor is trying to tell the patient i can't favour you. Which is what the other actor was trying to portray as a patient?

 

Actors were told to play a stereotype of the characters and to exaggerate them both physically and vocally.

Once actors got the go ahead to be the stereotypical doctor and patient the physicality automatically changed and the feel of the scene became more comic than serious.

 

When Sarah clapped her hands actors had to switch roles.

I feel they had done a job of using the physicality potions because one actor maybe was a patient on the floor begging the doctor for help then when the hands were clapped it was the doctor supporting the patient. The audiences reaction was very played on by the actors which made the scene automatically became more comic.

 

NARRATIVE

In groups we created a performance of a fairy story using four styles of Narration.

1.      A narrator

2.      Actor stepping out of character to narrate

3.      Actor speaking in 3rd person

4.      Singing narration

My group choose to do snow white and the seven dewafes. We choose to show all the different types of narttation. Such as standard nation and the ones we were asked to incorporate in our piece. We had an actor show the standard narration by standing at the side and saying "once upon a time..." And then we had an Actor step out of character to narrate what exactly what he or she was doing at that moment. I think Brecht used narration to disconnect you from the character in the play and thing about what the issue was instead of focus on the person.

 

 

 

VERFREMDUNGSEFFEKT

 

Task 1: In pairs we created a naturalistic scene . We the shared with the group.

 

I feel they where so real and more serious than what we had been doing earlier on in the day. they was normal not acted or rehersed just true.

 

 

Task 2: We revisted the scene and selected the climactic moment and rehearsed this so we knew the stage directions well.

I feel brecht used this as a type of way to distant the audience from the character to make the actual issue more known than the character.

Task 3: We recreated the moment keeping the character dialogue, but the characters had to speak every stage direction too.


As an actor it really disconnected me with the character having to narrate every movement I did. To me this maybe what brecth was trying to do.