Lesson 3 – truth

I think we want to create truth on stage so as an audience member we don’t want to just hear the lines being said I think we also need to feel them and believe them to fully engage with the actor/actress. Also if e.g. were imagining where in the woods and there was no visual indication where we was by the words the actors are saying and the movements we make has to be real as if we were there so we can help the audience paint a picture and take them on a journey with us.

We played a game called ‘I don’t believe you’ one of the reasons why I think we played this game was because looking at watching people do the different scenario helped me personally identify ways that can make me as a audience member understand the different aspects that helps me to take truth out what you’re saying. I think we done that game as even though I didn’t participate by watching it I learnt that my smallest of hand gestures and facial expression and by not being afraid of silence made me believe one scene tan another.

Skye
The situation Skye was entering the room from was just being told that he got cancer. I think Skye was able to show truth as when he first walked into the room by the seriousness of his face and the way he slowly but manfully walked into the room I was automatically engaged. Skye only entered the room once because we all believed him first time but I think what made him successful was the fact that he tooked simple actions like locking a door and put purpose to it.by him locking the door showed he wanted to be alone so without knowing what the situation before the room accrued we knew it was serious for he didn’t want to be observed. Also I really liked the use of silence when he sat down because for me by putting truth In a performance is using your own experience and portraying that on stage what I thought sky done well.

Non-verbal communication

Non-verbal communication is you don’t talk to a person/people but you portray you message without words.e.g though your body language you can portray your body by feeling happy with big movements and sad and lonely with small movements. Also through your facial expressions you can portray different emotions to create different moods of the scene.

We got asked to go in partners and I decided to work with someone who I don’t usually work with and I wanted to try and work with as much boys as girls. I worked with beau who comes across as a bold character and has a loud personality in theatre with is quite opposite to me. We created a scene on brake up and I was giving the bad news that we were breaking up to beau. I think we brought truth to our piece as we both experienced a brake up so we could use our own experiences to make what we shown purposefully and mean full. Also because as we wasn’t using words though our facial expressions and the feelings we trying to interpret how we would be feeling if we was in this situation came across well as we used techniques like different levels, dynamics to mimic our body language as at times we were sad and other times were angry. Another pair I thought was successful was Marley & George’s as they also done the theme of braking up in a relationship it was nice seeing them take a different approach.me and beau piece ended as beau storming to the other side after we had a ‘fight’ but Marley and Georges ended to calmly and suttly that I really like the contrast..

·         born in 1863 in Moscow, Russia, Constantin Stanislavski started working in theatre as a teen, going on to become an acclaimed thespian and director of stage productions. He co-founded the Moscow Art Theatre in 1897 and developed a performance process known as method acting, allowing actors to use their personal histories to express authentic emotion and create rich characters. He died in Moscow in 1938.

·         During the Moscow Art Theatre's early years, Stanislavski worked on providing a guiding structure for actors to consistently achieve deep, meaningful and disciplined performances. He believed that actors needed to inhabit authentic emotion while on stage and, to do so, they could draw upon feelings they'd experienced in their own lives. Stanislavski also developed exercises that encouraged actors to explore character motivations, giving performances depth and an unassuming naturalism while still paying attention to the parameters of the production. This technique would come to be known as the "Stanislavski method" or "the Method."

Subtext

We worked out the subtext for Leah monologue because allot of her monologue she repeats stuff and it was a way to work out what she meant by each line.e.g ‘I don’t want to know what you’re thinking’ subtext would be ‘I really want to know what you’re thinking and I hope it is of me’ some when Leah is saying that line through her body language and facial expression she can give the implication of her subtext it links to bringing truth on stage.

Yeah it really helped me to understand her better as she comes across quite bold and chatty but really she has this innocents and she actually cares about what people thinks of her and has this sense of insecurity about herself.