Friday 13 of Feb

This lesson we began to seriously work on Meyerhold, a way of acting that involves using physical theatre and using actors bodies' to convey a message, in a way that is not just verbal. to begin the lesson however, we played 'Whoosh' again. It was faster and began the lesson as a warmup to physicalising.

We then worked on counterbalancing against each other, in pairs, with the dynamic of portraying a boyfriend and a girlfriend as we did it. This added facial expression and purpose to the balancing- telling a story through what we thought was just a technique. We were then told to do it in a story like way, using 3 different counterbalancing positions - it looked like a tableau of sorts, since we had to freeze after each one -  to tell a story. Rachel and I did one that began with the girlfriend hanging onto the irritated boyfriend, for him to stay. Then the boyfriend goes up against the girlfriend and becomes aggressive toward her, as she cowers away, and then the boyfriend longingly looks at the girlfriend who is turning away (rightfully so, might I add).

After that we had a look at the script we will be studying; Cagebirds. Another girl and I read through some of the lines as Guzzler and Gazer, two of the original characters in the play. It illustrated to us how boring the play sounds just being read, as the script needs physicalisation to bring it to life.