AAS (30) - Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

In this lesson we were split into different groups and given our second scenes for our Applying Acting Styles Showcase. I was put with both Ollie's, James and Kat, and we were given a small section of script from the play "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" and told that we were going to be doing a physical theatre piece.

Ollie Kelly and I recently saw the play in the West End, so we told the rest of the group what the play was about. We watched a couple of videos too - this was to show what the play was roughly about, what the main character is like and give a sense of the play.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVrOsXhG61Q   -   Official trailer
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYDFdY3IZBM   -   Tony Awards Performance
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4mXhW7TXQ8   -   Frantic Flying Lesson

I have seen the third video before but I really enjoyed it. We shall be experimenting with some of these lifts in a later lesson.

We spent the rest of the lesson discussing the main character and autism. The main character, Christopher, has a severe case of Asperger's Syndrome. We discussed how autism comes in a variety of different forms and strengths, and different people we know with Asperger's (family members, friends and colleagues).