In this lesson, we each got into small groups. We were then told to choose one of the scenes out of a Love and Information. I teamed up with Fiona and we took the scene 'Grief':
I read the red lines, and Fio read the black ones:
Are you sleeping?
I wake up early, but that's all right in the summer.
Eating?
Oh enough. Don't fuss.
I've never had someone die.
I'm sorry, I've nothing to say.
Nothing seems very interesting.
He must have meant everything to you.
Maybe. We'll see.
After reading the scene through, we needed to think of three different ideas how we could perform the piece. These are our ideas:
1- We created a really detailed couple who appeared to be form a soap opera. The couple are actually divorces, and the wife has begun a new relationship with another man. This made the husband incredibly jealous, so he murdered the wives new boyfriend. She doesn't know of this, and when the husband attempts to console her over his death, she is confused yet happy. He is trying to make her fall back in love with him.
We decided to try and portray this by being very melodramatic and over the top. However, this was very hard to portray as we only had a short scene, so showing all this information was rather difficult.
2- Next, we decided to look into the scene in a slightly different way. To do this, we decided that the characters were young children (around 7 or 8). They were discussing the death of an imaginary friend. They are in a playground on the swing set. This was easier to portray as we just had to physicalize and vocalise a child, which would show the story.
3- Our final idea was that the person in red was a psychiatrist and the other person was somebody mourning their brother. The mourner was 18, and the psychiatrist was around 60. This was easy to interpret, as we simply created a physiatrist office with the staging, and then had one person lying in the chair and the other standing and speaking to them. This was okay to perform as it became obvious where they were. However, the psychiatrists lines became rather vague. They say "I'm sorry, I've nothing to say", and this is very unprofessional for a psychiatrist. This is why we decided that perhaps the psychiatrist was older. He was tired and close to retirement, which is why he wasn't doing very well in his job.
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