Workshop 2
Groups A+B discussed their character biographies and then each spoke to the rest of the cast and crew about what they had been told about their partners character. This helped us all understand early relationships and status’s.
Each actor has an occupation and has to explain what they do to the other actor. This helped develop an understanding between what they did physically and how they react to the other actors in the space. Also seemed to bring some humour which creates more teamwork. Explaining lifting boxes and moving them from one part of the room to the other was very humorous.
Tube Improvisation – Allowing the three guys to develop their relationship whilst not being too fond of Max. Max annoys them by playing loud music but Jennie fancies him which adds to the torment of the other actors. They work together to try to get Max to stop his music without having to resort to physical violence. Max and Jennie end up leaving the tube together.
To help Chris reach the despairing levels of worry that Ellis has we put him into a similar situation the character may have experienced but using Max as the Bank Manager we increase Ellis’s anger towards McQueen. By the end of the improvisation we feel Chris is really going to hit out at Max.
Developing Jennie and Matt’s relationship we see how she can get round her husband by playing the nice sweet wife. She has to go out but Matt wants her to stay. They both develop this couple status as they fight to see who gets their way. Matt inventing the curry night was a nice touch. Jennie sitting on his lap really showed her playing with the idea of Shelly and her two lives.
Simon felt that he was always down the pub with his mates and what a coincidence when an improvisation was set in a pub. Vanessa played his wife trying to get him to leave. We start to see Jarrett and how he lives his life. Hardworking but also not really understanding of his wife’s needs.
Developing the guys and working on Ellis as the live wire we put Max in a pub situation where he is staring at Chris. The guys really start to play the status as we see the leader of the gang developing as Ellis is continuously held-back from hitting the cocky Max at the end of the bar.
Two Sides – Max on one side and Matt on the other, we see how Jennie reacts to the two different men as she tries to find her character and how each situation changes her towards them. She’s sweet and obedient with Matt and then appears sexy and darker with Max.
Someone has a secret – Simon comes on stage when Chris is telling a secret to Matt. We really start to see them as the three characters more as Chris and Simon battle to tell their secret to Matt. Matt controls them both and as we raise the stakes Chris becomes more violent as Simon becomes more confident that he’s Matt’s No 2. Ending up with them both almost fighting each other. The bickering and constant arguing seems to be in direct line with the characters of the play.
Summary – Perceptions and Status’s have been developed. The next Workshop deals with finding what makes the characters tick and allowing internal thoughts to develop from how the character thinks creating actions with sound.
Each actor has an occupation and has to explain what they do to the other actor. This helped develop an understanding between what they did physically and how they react to the other actors in the space. Also seemed to bring some humour which creates more teamwork. Explaining lifting boxes and moving them from one part of the room to the other was very humorous.
Tube Improvisation – Allowing the three guys to develop their relationship whilst not being too fond of Max. Max annoys them by playing loud music but Jennie fancies him which adds to the torment of the other actors. They work together to try to get Max to stop his music without having to resort to physical violence. Max and Jennie end up leaving the tube together.
To help Chris reach the despairing levels of worry that Ellis has we put him into a similar situation the character may have experienced but using Max as the Bank Manager we increase Ellis’s anger towards McQueen. By the end of the improvisation we feel Chris is really going to hit out at Max.
Developing Jennie and Matt’s relationship we see how she can get round her husband by playing the nice sweet wife. She has to go out but Matt wants her to stay. They both develop this couple status as they fight to see who gets their way. Matt inventing the curry night was a nice touch. Jennie sitting on his lap really showed her playing with the idea of Shelly and her two lives.
Simon felt that he was always down the pub with his mates and what a coincidence when an improvisation was set in a pub. Vanessa played his wife trying to get him to leave. We start to see Jarrett and how he lives his life. Hardworking but also not really understanding of his wife’s needs.
Developing the guys and working on Ellis as the live wire we put Max in a pub situation where he is staring at Chris. The guys really start to play the status as we see the leader of the gang developing as Ellis is continuously held-back from hitting the cocky Max at the end of the bar.
Two Sides – Max on one side and Matt on the other, we see how Jennie reacts to the two different men as she tries to find her character and how each situation changes her towards them. She’s sweet and obedient with Matt and then appears sexy and darker with Max.
Someone has a secret – Simon comes on stage when Chris is telling a secret to Matt. We really start to see them as the three characters more as Chris and Simon battle to tell their secret to Matt. Matt controls them both and as we raise the stakes Chris becomes more violent as Simon becomes more confident that he’s Matt’s No 2. Ending up with them both almost fighting each other. The bickering and constant arguing seems to be in direct line with the characters of the play.
Summary – Perceptions and Status’s have been developed. The next Workshop deals with finding what makes the characters tick and allowing internal thoughts to develop from how the character thinks creating actions with sound.
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