Applying Acting Styles

We learned about physical theatre this is acting through your movement some of the techniques that you use within physical theatre are gestures, movement, stance, mask, mime, status, proximity, motif, dance and non movement. All these will show you facial exceptions and emotions then you can think of your thoughts as that character you will have to use your body language so people will understand the type of character you are and what you are doing with each move that it has a meaning to it.

We were given a poem to come up with a physical theatre piece we came with up a whole story and wanted to use gestures to show the different characters and the different places we all were. We showed all of our emotions though body language and facial expressions when multi rolling different characters when I was the boss we told the story a lot with the gestures we did for example we were banging on the wall like we were trying to break free. I think it was a successful piece and I liked the different actions we all worked together and came up with different choreography which was so much fun I enjoy physical theatre because I love dancing and it means I can get up and move about more I think its a challenge and makes you think outside the box coming up with different ideas. I need to remember to keep acting throughout and remember facial expressions and body language so the audience will know what type of character I am. Overall if we did it again we could have made it longer and used more techniques maybe some dance if we had more time.

We also looked at a scene from 'Let the right one in' and we came up with a physical theatre piece to start it off we came with the idea of having a snow ball fight and leaving one of the characters out so they feel alone and that we were all were having a fun game together and they were scooping the snow up then we used gestures for them to join in and pushed them down to show we were all bulling him and did not want him to play as well.