Berkoff.

During this lesson, we decided to continue looking at Berkoff as a practitioner. We took this short section form hie play Metamorphosis:
"I liked hanging from the ceiling. It was better than the floor- one breaths more freely- and i can swing and rock backwards and forwards, forwards and backwards- i feel so light, and i can see the hospital across the street- all i can see from the floor is a drab, grey sky- i so much wanted to see my mother- it's so long since i have seen her- perhaps i am too hideous ever to see her again."

During this scene, the main character has been turned into a bug, presumably a cockroach. To portray this, we had three people at the top of a stack of set blocks and three entwined underneath them. The people who were sat on the staging were grotesquely placed, and all sat in similar positions. The people below were balancing inside the set, also in a similar position. During the performance, the people wt the top of the set had high pitched voices, and those at the bottom had lower pitched voices. This is a Berkoffian technique as he focuses on using varied pitch to portray character. We also had small sections of physicalisation throughout the piece, for example, for the line 'I feel so light', the three at the bottom of the staging got out and did a light to portray the feeling of lightness. 

Overall, this incorporated with the range of pitches made the performance very effective as it was full of Berkoffian techniques.