Today's lesson was spent making set.... aka, painting nativity scenes! We got some paints and made our nativity scenes as if we were our characters, therefore my one had to be fairly good, whilst Rhiannon's characters one would probably make Gabriel more important than Mary and Lewis's character's painting would have lots of stars on it. We made sure that our pictures matched what it said in the script; therefore we ensured that a couple of paintings had "John Burgeon" (but not mine as Mary asks who he is) and that one painting was a picture of a duck with an ice cream.19/11/15
In this lesson, we did the adult section but all swapped parts. This was so we not only thought about other characters attitudes, but so we could see someone else's take on our characters. For this exercise Katya and I switched roles, so I was Shepherd's Mum whilst she was Mary's Mum. I thought Katya took a very interesting approach by making Mary's Mum's character more common. I liked how she gave the character a more sarcastic approach, however, I personally feel that Mary's Mum would be a little more caring and a bit more upper class.
20/11/15
Today we ran the play from the beginning up to the end of Act One. However, this time was the first time we did it completely without scripts. Although we obviously had to focus on getting our lines correct, we were told to focus on our movement and making it as convincing as possible.
