Evaluation

Waiting for Godot 
Waiting for Godot was a brilliant performance and was a success for both of us. We both knew our lines and acting our characters through the piece very well I think we understood the acting style of absurdism and we did use techniques from this to show in our performance so the audience may have understood what type of piece we were doing. I think we used our characters really well and we played up to the audience really well making them laugh throughout the whole piece which was the reaction we wanted. The piece is absurdism so we understood we could mix our lines up and the script had a lot of different parts too so we just had to go with the part that was first to last but could make it random at times. Kat and I found it difficult to keep remember our lines and in the rehearsal stage we would keep trying not to use scripts all the time and keep going with the performance to see where it took us but we needed to make sure our body language and movement was still strong. Our accents as southern people worked really well and costumes as old men who can't afford a lot made us look funny and finished the part of well. Overall Kat and I worked really hard to get this performance the best it could be to show the audience and from the comments and feedback we got from everyone it was successful and the audience were laughing throughout some of the parts was about hanging ourselves and giving us an erections and when I took my boot of and fell over when I finally got it off my foot. I think if we were going to perform it again we should spent more time learning our lines and doing a dress run so we felt more comfortable and knew maybe we were going to use more props like some rope for the hanging part.

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
The physical theatre piece went really well all the lifts and movements ran smoothly and looked really effective. Playing this character was a challenge for me planning it but I think the audience understood what I was trying portray a lot of the group had to change their character but I had to keep the same character I think it looked a lot better that we had lots of the lines recorded and then I said all of mine live it worked very well. If I did it again I would do more research into playing this character and looking at different voices I could use. Our group worked really well together and came up with ideas but I think we should have tried out more to see if that would have worked better.

Curious Incident Working Progress

At this point we had decided who is going to say what and decided that a lot of the lines were going to be recorded all mine were going to be live we have decided for costumes that everyone was going to be wearing black a part from so I stand out we are going to have a box or some sort of case to have Toby the pet rat in but you don't get to see the rat we decided to have a platform at the back of the room so when I jump onto the train tracks the audience will have more of an idea that I am trying to find my rat and looking for him on the tracks this means when I get lifted back up it will look like I am getting back onto the platform.

We have come up with a whole performance over the few weeks it has come together really well we are going to make sure the lifts are safe and easy to get up and out of so that I feel safe and the people lifting feel like they can do it simple when preforming this we have recorded all the lines by I will be having gaps for when I speak so I am not mining it we are going to go over different parts of the movement so when we do bits like the train coming train going we all do it together so the audience can get the idea that they are all trying to be me. The part when I am talking to Ed I shall be saying all my lines looking out like he is talking to me but you don't get to see him. Within doing my actions I really wanted to think of a voice I was thinking of sounded a bit more child like and very to the point and state facts because I don't like people touching me that I don't know and London is a brand new place to me so I really need to show the audience I am confused so it could shock them when I jump on the tracks and everyone starts shouting because I don't know I am doing anything wrong.

Physical Theatre - Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

We found out today we were going to be doing a performance of Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time this play is about mental health issue and about a boy called Christopher who has autism. This was going to be a physical theatre piece which I think really suits me well and I found out I was going to be playing the character off Christopher which I think is a challenge for me and would consider me to research more how I am going to play it because I still have lines to talk and want to think of what it is like in his own world.

We watched a clip from the National Theatre to get an idea of it and then we would all know what the story was like and how everyone is dealing with Christopher.



We did some research learning how to do frantic assembly so we can put some of these lift in out piece I found this really help us and gave us an idea of how we were going to start. We decided that we wanted to record a lot of the lines so when we are in the train station we can move and not have to worry about saying the words this could create a more of a hassle so we can do bigger movements.

Within in the movement we used different techniques we put slow motions and having everyone change different roles of what they do in the train station so it looks more bussle we wanted to show the lifts like no one was there so Christopher was like he is in his own world.

With my character I have to act confused like I am in my own world it's my first time going into London so I had to show this by facial expressions and the actions I was doing. Within the lifts we had to think about how we were going to get the lift up smoothly and when the lift comes down that we can go into the next move everyone one had different actions to do so it looked liked he morning rush in London everyone trying to get to where they want to be.

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.

Applying Acting Styles

The last acting style we looked at was Artaud the aim of this style is to make your audience walking out going that was amazing and that they want to watch it again like you just been on a roller coaster that you want to go on it again. I really enjoyed this piece because again you get to move around a lot which is like physical theatre and get to explore different ideas which is fun.

These are some of the techniques that Artaud that he used some of them are in your theatre, openly use emotions, masks, movement is the key and leaving an image in the audience minds so they remember what you did and think about it. He wanted you to feel emotion so the audience would have some feeling for all the characters.



When we performed our piece I think it did leave a feeling on the audience and surprised the audience I don't think they knew we were going to have loud nightclub music it looked effective with the light and sounds but does not show up very well on the camera it is designed to watch in real life I think we need a smaller room which is totally black with louder music and different lighting then the audience will feel more like they are a part of the performance. We did not have any dialogue in the piece so we need to make sure we are always using are facial expressions and our body language.