During this lesson, we decided to take our previously studied practitioner and one of our possible texts. We took a particular scene from the play 'The Glass Menagerie' and attempted to make it Berkoffian in style. To do this, we broke off into pairs and edited our scenes. Me and Sam decided to do a scene where Amanda and Tom are eating dinner. The scene starts off with Amanda shouting at Tom for 'pushing' at his food with his fingers, and then descends into Tom retaliating and answering back towards Amanda.
To make this more Berkoff in style, we choreographed the eating at the beginning of the scene, and used the technique of robotic movements- they ate as if they were robots. This was particularly effective as it was visually interesting, yet also portrayed how the pair had become like clockwork.
Then Sam and I turned in sync towards the audience and performed certain lines towards them, in chorus. This is a mixture of Berkoff's techniques and was rather effective. Finally, we stood in sync and did a small choreographed section of movement. We made this unique as Sam was facing the audience, but I had my back to them, and turned away. I believe that this was effective as it showed how strained our relationship was.
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