Single Drama-Week 2

This week we started doing a bit of physical theatre. We decided to start on the opening of the play. The opening is meant to represent what goes on in Christopher's head. We decided to make it that Christopher doesn't want to touch anyone, so every time we walk towards someone, we walked away. This eventually turned to us turning away by putting our hands above us. This would then change into a spin to show that Christopher is getting much more franctic. His also shows that Christopher doesn't want anyone near him. We then go into a sequence where we type out phone numbers. We then get faster and faster to show how much Christopher doesn't like it and how franctic his mind is sometimes. I think that it could be improved by putting music to it so that it doesn't look like we're just radomly doing it.

We then carried on with the rest of the play form where we left off and go on further and block more of the first act so we could get a feel for the play and know more of the storyline. Also in the Mr Alexander neighbour scene, we created a maze to show what is going on in Christopher's head. This helps the audience understand what is going on in Christopher's head.

This week I researched how "Woman on Street" was portrayed in the actual production. She is portrayed as a commuter that stops to answer questions. She then quickly gets annoyed at Christopher's questions and then walk off. I thought about the changes u could make to the charecter and things that I have to keep the same so the original concept of the charecter could stay the same. In the play, she carries an umbrella because it's raining and she's standing there with her back facing to him. I thought that I could be texting and straight away be angry that I had to talk to him because I'm to busy on my phone and don't want to talk to him. 

Next week, I hope to do research on my last charecter so that I know how to act in it and help understand him more.