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the first week of preparing for the wolves of Willoughby chase we done some
wolf like movements similar to the stuff we done in the physical theatre show.
I enjoyed doing this because we later input it into the intro chorus and it
will show people that we haven’t forgotten about physical theatre and that we still like to explore and develop it further. After that
we split up into two different groups and read through the entire script with
people playing more than one character to see what it were like to be those
characters. Later on we got the whole class together and discussed who would
like to play which character; we done this by naming characters and whoever
wanted to play them we made them both say a line from the script, then we would
vote which one we preferred to be the character. Once we all had characters we
got the whole class together and ran through the script again with people
playing the character with their character voice to slowly help them develop
that character. Even though we might not get that character it was still good
to learn how to develop a character from that time period early instead of
doing it when we got cast.
This is a good first entry - you have covered the first explorations of the physical theatre we will do in this piece, as well as script readthroughs, which are common to the beginning of any professional play.
ReplyDeleteYou could add to this by saying what your response/opinion was when you read the play for the first time.
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