Today we did a variety of exercises to get a better understanding of our characters.
Our first task was to line up in what we thought was the order of authority of our characters. In this line up, Mary was on the far right of the line, being the most authoritative, with Ass being at the other end. However, when we did this task again but from the point of view of our characters, the line order changed. As our characters, we had to give ourselves a number (with one being the least authoritative and ten being the most) and then get into this order. This time, Mary was still near the top, but was right next to Innkeeper, Gabriel and Star. Also, Ass was no longer at the bottom of the line, as he says to pretty much everybody "am a donkey!"
The next exercise we did was a rather personal one; as our characters, we had to come up with two words that we thought best described "ourselves". The words I came up with was the "bees-knees" and "perfect". We then repeated this exercise but for each other. We all wrote our character's name on a piece of A4 paper and left them in various places round the room. Then, we each had to write one word on all the pieces of paper which best described that character, from the point of view of our own character (for example, as Mary, I said that Herod was "annoying" because he never combed his hair and "forgot his crook"). The "other characters" described Mary as "pwetty", "nice", "bossy", "nasty", "clever" and "snobby". Rhiannon, as Gabriel, stated Mary was "fake Mary, rubbish Mary", claiming she would make a better Mary. The reason we did these exercises was for us to get a better understanding of our characters but also so we could understand each others characters opinions.
After these exercises, we picked up the script from where we left off last lesson, and continued staging it up until the middle of scene four, when we ran out of time.
