Breakfast short improvisation.

Primarily, at the beginning of this lesson, we had to create a short improvisation. We were given two characters to portray- one who wanted to go on holiday with her other half, and the other half, who wanted to break up. We had to create a small scene portraying these characters and how they acted around each other. However, we were only allowed to talk about breakfast, and nothing else. This was particularly difficult as we had to portray how each character was feeling, without actually saying how they were feeling.

Throughout this short scene, I was the person who wanted to go on holiday and Sophie was the person who didn't want to. Another small difficulty was that we had an extra person in our group, so had to work them into the scene. We added our third person as our slightly creepy roommate. Although we could only speak about breakfast, I believe that we effectively portrayed the relationship between the characters. My character started talking about breakfast in other countries and slowly inched closer to Sophie, until I was nearly on her lap, with my head resting on her shoulder. However, every time I asked a question, she would answer with short negative statements.

I believe that our portrayal was effective as it showed the audience the relationship between the two characters. Moreover, I believe that this exercise was effective as it made us think about our lines carefully, as we couldn't go off topic. However, this was rather difficult as we went off topic a few times and had to try and stop talking about things that weren't breakfast. Overall, I believe that this made me think more about the importance about each line in my monologue, and about how each line matters in its own way.