Thursday 26th March- Dissocia, run through

Today was our final lesson and rehearsal of Dissocia before the end if this term, Easter. Therefore this was a chance to clear up any worries or concerns we may have had before the lesson about the play and run through scenes we know need doing.

The main scene we focused on was the Oath taking scene. This has been staged and work on previous to this however we all felt it was the major scene in the play we needed to tweak. After we had improved parts of the scene by re arranging characters on stage and changed slightly the way they delivered certain lines, the scene automatically became more powerful and meaningful as a play on theatrical devices can really improve the way some things are portrayed.

The element that went really well for me today was how I have developed my characterisation of Lisa. My interpretation of her as a character has developed out of her stereotypical traits and has turned in to something very raw and fresh. I have decided to play Lisa as a young woman, who bottles up her emotions. She is a strong woman on the outside however underneath, she is very fragile as she is domestically abused by her boyfriend, Vince. I think I portray her character well as I play her with confidence through the way I deliver her lines to certain characters through out the play however I show her more fragile side by dimming her response and dropping her tone of voice in reply to some questions such as her reply to "Now has anyone other than yourself touched or stroked your hair today". I reply with a distant "No however use a negative tone of voice as which to suggest she is disappointed in the fact no one has touched her hair recently. This suggests rejection in her relationship with Vince, pointing towards an unhappy life.

Today highlighted to me that I need to go over my lines at the end of act 1 as I am the least confident on those. I believe when I have done this, I will be confident towards the whole of act 1.