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.