Waiting For Godot

Waiting For Godot is a Absurdism play here are some techniques that we think we use within our performance.




















Repetitive Dialogue we do repeat some of the lines in the play for example we are talking about Godot throughout the performance asking where he is, what we asked him for and if we are in the right place waiting for him.

Anti realistic the conversations we have between each other our very random and unrealistic hopefully this will make our audience laugh and get a good reaction so we can play up to the audience.

All the movement in our performance is repetitive when I am taking off my boot when we both go and sit on the bench we can show how we are together and that the pair our inescapable because we don't have hope only waiting for Godot and hoping he will save us.

Slow pace we want it to run smoothly but also have some slow pace parts when it work well for example the hanging ourselves part would come across funny if we go towards the tree and say our lines slowly so the audience understand that neither one of us want to go first.

We want to try and include different silent moments and pauses so it can look affective as possible and then the audience will understand what we are trying to say or what we are planning on doing.

We are out of harmony and out of sync with the world because the scene and settings is just the two of us waiting and having a chat I feel that we annoy each other we don't have anything better to do but at the same time we are the best of friends and we only have each other to talk too that't one reason both of them think it is a good ideas not to hang themselves because it safer.

Costumes are going to be tramp style we are going to wear big coats, over sized tops and tracksuit bottoms and our boots so when I take them off I can make a massive drama out of it. We are also going to dirty ourselves up to really get in the character.

Settings and our props we are planning on having a beach to sit on and pretend in a part of it that we are looking at a tree we want the layout to be basic because we don't have much and we may have some rope for the hanging ourselves part.

Our main task that Kat and I have been working on is our accents so we don't keep going in and out of it that we can stay in it and also include movement when we are practising we are always using our accents and trying to do it in our free time this really helps us remember to keep doing it and get in to the flow so when we begin our scene again we know how to walk and talk.

Waiting For Godot

Waiting For Godot is an absurdist play which means I need to use some of these techniques to make it successful as possible we have both done some research so we could find out more about Absurdism and how it links with our piece and coming up with ideas of how we could use it. We found this research from the internet which gave us more of an idea of what we were going to use in our performance.

We are both really focusing on our voices so we can get across the funny side of the play and people will understand the comedy side. Waiting For Godot is a a different play because some of the lines our characters say our very random we have put our own twist on the whole performance by showing that we can use our voices to change our accent which is a lot different from how other people play it this is how we want it to come across.

Waiting For Godot

We are performing a scene from Waiting For Godot I decided to do some research we decided that we wanted to have farmer accents I had a look at a TV program called Doc Martin to get the idea of the accent then we could study how they talk and practice over and over again to improve. When looking over it I need to make improvements on my actions and body language and whole movement this will help my character become more to life once I have learned all my lines and got the hang of the accent I can start putting more acting into it.


















I feel that this is how we should play our characters but more over the top so we can get the comedy side across to the audience. We also wanted to make decisions about the story line and decide who were we waiting for and who is Godot.




















We both worked together to try and work out who Godot was and we came up with some ideas we said that it could be both of us dreaming that we want this person to come and save us because we are poor and homeless we are looking for someone to make our dreams come true that is when we came up with the genie in the lamp idea that he could make all our dreams come true. We came up with different ideas like a close family member or friend who passed away that we could never forget and we think that they are still alive and we are waiting for him or her. We decided that we wanted to go down the fantasy idea a fictional character that we believe they save us that he is like our God he is all knowing. Kat and I felt sorry for the our characters Vladimir and Estragon because it is sad that they don't really have anything a part from each other. Kat and I are making our scene comical because some of the lines like 'why don't we hang ourselves' and 'an erection' are random lines that we say within the performance and we want these to be funny because Kat and I are close friends we can bounce off each other well and come up with new and different ideas how we want to show this when we perform.