Curious Incident. week review. Monday 13th - Friday 17th

During the rehersal process,we have been working on our character development aswell as the play, we have been mostly working on part one of the script, and have started to learn our individual lines, we have also been working on a lot of the parts in the play where we use physical theatre to show where Christopher is, and what he is doing. We also did alot of character improvisation work, for example, i put up a video on blogger about a week ago showing a short video of all the neighbours, Mr alexandra(me), Number 40 and Mrs shears, doing a small bit of improvisation work, talking about how we feel about Christopher, this helped us to get a better understanding of our characters.

At home i have also, read through the script and adapted my voice and body language to look and sound more like an old caring man. The short improvised performances helped me to understand more about the character i play, It helped me to understand how my character feels about Christopher, and made me ask myself why mr Alexandra is so kind to Christopher. Now i understand more about my own character aswell as the other characters in the performance.

 I myself know quite alot about Aspergers, because a family member has the condition, this has helped me understand alot more about Christophers character, because i know someone close to me,who has it, Aspergers is where you like everything organised and planned, any changes to the origional plans can be quite frustrating for the person with Aspergers. 

 I have been very successful with knowing more about my character,and the other Charachters around me, because we have done alot of character building workshops, it has mainly been a success because i now know more about my character. Previously i didn'tfeel very confident in my character, for instance when i was communicating with Christopher originally, i didn't know how to adapt my voice and body language to match my character, now we have worked on our individual characters, i feel more confident when performing.

 I feel that we need to work on the play a lot more, in many parts of the performance, we all call out random words and numbers, as if its all happening in christophers head, so we need to all learn our individual lines and i need to start learning my lines and practicing them, however i think more character workshops will help me, learn more about my character Mr Alexandra.

Mr Kelly friday 17th october

Today after the warm up, we were put intosmall groups and asked to work on one of the three greek god stories, my group: Tom Falconar, Freya Beck and myself, performed/created a small part of the story of Medussa, we have changed the time of the story to modern times, Medussa, devoted to Athena, works at Athenas strip club, however when Athenas dear friend, pesiden walks in (god of sea ) he falls in love with Medussa, medussa loves pesidun so much she begs to leave, however athena punishes her for going against her word. Atthe beginning i introduce, the audience ( my customers ) to the stripclub... " Welcome to the gods temple, where we assure you a brilliant night, we have a wide variety of women; Blondes, Redheads, Brunettes. The carpets do certaintly match the drapes hahaha, but remember, you get in, do your thing, then get out. No love strings attatched, enjoy your stay! " When i say " No love strings attatched " I wink at the men in the audience to suggest they all have wives at home.

Medussa is my favourite story of the three because it will engage the audience, and its quite entertaining storyline

Monday 13th october character improvisation

Today we did a lot of character work, mainly improvisation, which helped us to get a better understanding of who our characters are, and how we should play them, above is a small, ( funny ) video of us demonstrating improvisation work, unfortunately when the audience members laughed it put us off so it didn't look very professional, but the work helped us to get in touch with our characters more, The characters involved were, Meg, as ( mrs shears ) dom, as ( Number 40 ) and me as ( Mr Alexandra ) After we performed our small improvisation work we wrote monologues.