Absurdism.

Throughout the beginning of this double lesson, we read a section of a Swedish play. This play revolved around a married couple who were arguing about their child- the mother believed that her child had been snatched and replaced by a changeling child, but the father was skeptical. Overall, this section had a very somber, serious feel that wasn't humorous at all. 
However, to make this scene absurd, we had to change the context to the piece. To do so, me and James decided to play the piece as if we had just slept together. This hugely changed the feel of the scene as it made it slower, and calmer than before. We both exaggerated our emotions and it hugely changed the subtext of the scene. It made the couple look as if they were still in love and were not really arguing and changed how the audience felt towards them.

Moreover, to make this even more exaggerated and absurd, we did the piece with masks. This changed the feel of the piece as the couple had the same facial expression throughout the scene. Although it took a while to get used to, I enjoyed using the masks as they created a very interesting, humorous piece. Overall, this was very absurd as it changed the subtext of the piece hugely, it was unusual as the audience could hear how serious the conversation was, yet were shown a more laid-back conversation.  

Finally, to make his scene even more absurd, we decided to take an ordinary object and act as if it was something else. To do this, we took a large beanbag and carried it around as if it was the baby we were talking about. This was very humorous as the audience could clearly tell that it was a beanbag, yet we were fawning over it as if it was a child. Also, the huge size of the beanbag was rather comical as it was ten times as big as a normal baby, so the way we struggled with carrying it was funny.