20/11/14 EET homework 3

You need to write about the lesson this week, reflecting on the exercises you have done and explain how you have developed your understanding of the play, characters and themes. 

You were given the marking criteria for DEVELOPING for this project. You need to complete the sheet, you would have started this in the lesson – the sheet must be uploaded to your blog.

Task 3

Individually you decided on a character they you had underlined to create a role – on – the – wall for. You were given the sheet for this in the lesson. Upload this on the blog.

You wrote:

INTERIOR: Things the character thinks and feels.

EXTERIOR: Things that people say about them, what they look like.

As some of these characters only exist in a mention by another person you had lots of creative freedom to develop the roles. 

Using the roles you had developed you created some scenes that show how these characters exist outside the play. 

For example, the character in tale 6 speaking is waiting for his brother to finish work. They might explore a scene of the brother at work. You needed to make up what he does etc. You needed to focus on creating roles that are believable and should keep in mind the context of the play, the east-end.

• What scene did you develop?My group staged the piece by having one person perform their individual devised scene while the rest of the group stood to the side and were silent as they watched the monologue being delivered. In my scene I used the role-on -the -wall sheet to create the character of the hard sly man's mother and staged the scene in a hospital ward.      
• What drama skills did you use to do so?Largely improvisation because although we were given an opportunity to think about what to do we weren't given much time and we obviously had no script so I had to pretty much make my piece up on the spot. Also making sure that I was articulating my voice and putting in as much expression and emotion into my voice as I could.There wasn't a lot of moving around in my scene because my character was not very mobile being terminally ill and in extensive care so I focused more on my voice.
• Explain what you did as your character. Why did you make these choices? (Think about character- voice/physicality.)Within the group work that we did I played the part of the mother of the hard sly man. I was stuck in a hospital bed unable to go outside and in extreme pain with no idea where my son was or what he was doing.This influenced my performance because instead of standing up like others in my group I had to lie down on the floor as if it were a hospital bed.I cried out desperately for pain killers from the nurses trying to put as much pain into by voice as I could.    

Last task:

You should continue to explore the East-End through research. Keep uploading this to your blog too!