Lecturer: Gavin Maxwell
Lesson One
After the warm-up, we carried on rehearsing the Pinter script we were given the week before when we started our story telling work. Arnold and I concentrated on perfecting the tone of our voices and the amount of expression we put into certain words to sound threatening and serious. We didn't perform the whole script like everybody else, but we didn't mind because we felt that the work we had produced was very good quality, and we were off the book, unlike most of the other groups.
When we performed it to the class, it went very well, and we got some unplanned laughter from the audience, which surprised me. I didn't think we had done anything amusing. However, the ending, when Arnold attacked David (the man in the chair) went a little too far. I felt sad and disappointed when this happened because I felt it ruined our performance and caused the audience to criticise more than I'd like.
My strength in this lesson was performing with confidence and emotion, without a script and aware at all times what my character's intentions and objectives were. However, I think we could've focused more on the ending.
My target for next lesson is to make sure I spend an equal amount of time on each part of the script so that it doesn't look rushed in some places.
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