18th December 2015 pillowman

In this lesson we finished off the setting of the first scene, we looked in this lesson into the way me and Ariel (the other officer) approach the table, we wanted to establish personalities through the way we walk, Ariel was going to be loose and agressive looking. With his tie half done and shirt untucked. And we wanted tupolski to look incredibly smart with lengthy strides and good posture, this will instantly assert a more professional approach to tupolski over Ariel. We were very happy because it looked quite professional now, after all we had spent a lot of time planning it, seeing how our decisions would effect the audience and us performers. 

In the first act we also need to display personalities through our body language and the way we speak. Tupolski has a quite a broad temper so is quite controlled, sitting down next to katurian, working effectively with him, finding out information. Ariel on the other hand is loosing his temper after everything katurian is saying, which shows the audience he must have had a rough past or something wrong with him that has caused him to be so aggressive.

The speech from tupolski to katurian shows me that I have to be very shrewd with the way I play the part, Tupolskis speech is very controlled but professional, he shows small bursts of sarcasm. Intimidating katurian. I will be able to work well with this character because I have a good idea of how to play it.