When we were given the script, we read through it a couple of times to understand the narrative and for Ollie to understand mine and K
at's characters, and for Kat and I to understand Ollie's character! Once we understood what was going on, we staged our scene. We wanted to keep it very simplistic (as to not distract from the narrative).
We decided to have just two chairs to form Hecuba's bed. We didn't want too much movement in this piece, as we didn't think it was necessary, but we did have levels to make the scene more interesting to look at (Ollie standing, Kat kneeling on the floor and me sitting on the chair). To ensure the piece wasn't too static, I moved about on the chairs (changing from having my feet up to sitting sideways, to sitting up right, to slouching). We tried to perform this scene as naturally as possible to convey our characters emotions and to build the tension in the scene. Our feedback from performing this scene was that our body language, use of voice (tempo, tone and pauses) and facial expressions were strong. However, some of the class were a little bit confused as to what was happening in this scene so we should have made sure that we completely understood the narrative and worked out how we could make it more clear to the audience.
