Monday 28th January 2016

We didnt officially have a lesson today, however we all came together as a class in our frees, Michael and katurian have a lengthy scene at the start of the second act, which the two wanted to work on, so during this free period they looked into their characters and how they wanted to interact, (the characters are brothers, both convicted killers), as they practiced their scene me and Dom gave constructive advice to show the characters relationships with each other. Also while they ran through, I decided to research into anger management and what effects this has on somebody's life. It helped me to understand why Ariel and Tupolski are so cruel and heartless when it comes to their jobs.

Anger management: 

Anger management is the process of learning to recognize signs that you're becoming angry, and taking action to calm down and deal with the situation in a positive way. We see this a lot in the performance from both characters, however in different ways, we find that Ariel was abused as a child by his farther. He is very embarrassed about this fact and is very touchy when the subject is brought up. Even tupolski ridicules Ariel for his "problematic childhood", even when katurian nearer to the end of the play humiliates Ariel, tupolski doesn't even intervene, completely driving Ariel to an agressive stupor. The odd thing is we never find out why tupolski has anger management, he's very concealed through his personality in the performance.

It is important that we researched into anger management, because in order to play the characters well. We need to learn how people with anger management find it impossible to control anger. This extra lesson in our free periods has really given us a better insight to how the play is written and how it displays our individual characters sporadic personalities.