Units and objectives.

At the start of this lesson, we were given this short duologue:

"Hi.
 Hi
 How are you?
 Fine. You?
Yeah, ok. Maybe see you later?
Yeah might catch up later.
See you then.
Yeah, bye."

We were then told to perform this with a partner. However, we had to thoroughly think about or characters and how they knew each other. Moreover, we had to use subtext to try and create a context for our audience to pick up on. When we had performed our short, the audience had to guess what the characters relationship was and their own personal objectives.

Originally, my short duologue was supposed to revolve around a celebrity and a mega-fan. person A (who had the first, and every other line), was supposed to be this mega-fan who was almost stalking the celebrity (person B). We tried to perform and show this unusual relationship, however, whenever we performed it almost appeared too unfamiliar- the celebrity would be more used to fans. Because of this, we decided to perform it slightly differently:

The beginning was mostly similar, person A leapt out and started hugging and obsessing over person B. However, towards the end of this scene, person A actually stole person B's phone. This added a different spin to the scene as it more clearly showed our relationship (we were complete strangers, but A was feigning a relationship in order to get closer) and it also added our characters objectives. A's objective was to steal B's phone and B's objective was to get away from A. Because of the length of the script, we were unable to truly see a super-objective and we could only interpret the context.

Finally, when we performed. we decided that our piece had three small units in them:
The beginning, when A was hugging and creeping up on B. The middle, where the two had an awkwardly one-sided conversation. And the end, when the audience realise that A has stolen B's phone.