27th November 2010
Alex Wheeler lead another great session. Wheeler put us into pairs, and we acted a scene for him. I worked with the same partner as the day before and we played a scene of a person interviewing another for a flat share. We played it first very friendly, to what we felt was appropriate taking into account our phsyical appearance and the way we naturally played the scene. It came across like friendly students chatting about future living plans. Wheeler then asked us to play the scene again, this time my character being very much a bitch, this created an entirely different scene. I very much appreciated this chance to experiment with the scene and respond to the director's instruction.
We then had time to try another commercial, for skitsofrenia, this was very much a phsyical exercise, each performer had to display a very dramatic emotion and immediately snap to the next one. From anger, to paranoia and finally suicidal.
Wheeler at the end gave me words of encouragement about starting a phsyically based drama group of my own. Using casting call pro as the tool to get the word out. Really want to do this soon, or should I research funding first? Or just try to produce the piece first?
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