Dissocia- blocking the Britney scene- Thursday 5th March

Today in our lesson, we finished blocking the Britney scene. We made some technical decisions today on how we are going to stage this scene.

One of the major decisions we made today was the formations that we stand in for certain parts of the scene. We used a range of levels and varied movements to expand and elaborate on the scene's content. For more official parts of the dialogue, we used levels and different highs to create visual pleasure for the audience. In more informal parts, we used varied movements, such as when one of the attacks on Dissocia takes place, everyone is going to be on the floor doing sudden random rocking and swaying movements to show vulnerability and unexpectedness to the attack.
The characterisation and our response to movement is going well overall for us a a cast. We have all managed now to understand our character to a high level and are able to interpret this in to the acting skills we have learnt for Dissocia which are in general, very non naturalistic. Also, our class has a good understanding of pace and how the humorous levels in the play, are such a large part of the performance coming together and making sense.
Something our class need to improve on is the rate we have learnt our lines. I know myself, I have fallen behind with line learning however now we have almost staged the whole of the play, I find it easier to remember lines when I have movement associated with them. Over this weekend, I will go over my lines, clarifying them and ensuring I know them well enough to speak whilst acting with as little prompt as possible.