We began this lesson by reading through our scenes again and altering them as Ollie was not in this lesson. We got rid of the character Eric, and James played Gerald instead. After reading through the scene again, we began to stage our piece. We knew that we wanted to all sit on chairs, as they had supposedly just had dinner. We left a chair empty for where Eric would be sitting. Although, no one was playing Eric anymore, he was referred to during the scene as if he was there. This ended up being quite symbolic, as his character gets ignored a lot. We also considered proxemics to show relationships and character objectives - for example, James always tried to get closer to Kat to show that Gerald wanted to please Sheila, however, Kat often tried to back away, to show that Sheila is hurt that he practically ignored her during the summer.
We then performed these scenes to each other. One piece of feedback we received was that we were starting to get the hang of our body language; we managed to maintain the strong, upright posture for the majority of the time. Also, we maintained the posh voices throughout, though they needed to be a little more fluid at times.
What we need to work on next lesson is making our characters more belivable and creating more tension.
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