Wednesday, March 25

Movement
We did stretching and alignment stuff.

Then we went into a Theatre Complicité exercise called "Find the Game". By receiving the other people in the ensemble and looking for the will of the group, you figure out the rules for a game that you're making up on the spot. It took us a couple of tries to get the hang of it, but then it was a lot of fun.

We played another game that Movement Professor called "The McDonald's Game". We took all the exercise balls of various sizes and put them in a clump, and then stood around the edges using our knees to hold the balls in place. We created sort of a bouncy, large ball version of a ball pit at a Play Place. And then one person would go in the pit while the rest of us protected them and kept the balls inside our circle. It was great fun! I think I enjoyed being an edge person just as much as I liked being in the middle. It brought me a great deal of joy.


Voice
We went through the guys' monologue and discussed the IPA.

Then, we went into the concepts of linking and blending in sentences... whether you should double-plode consonants that are in adjacent words (like "real love" or "minor role", whether you can leave both syllables of the word "because" in context, whether you can put words together so that some letters almost switch words in your head ("don't you", "real enough", "but you're").


Acting
I was Másha and Newbie was Anfísa all class. We're going to switch tomorrow.

We ended up getting through all of Act I, and it was a blast.

It's funny how clear things in the script become once they're on their feet. I thought that Másha didn't want to go to a party with her husband because she hated him. But once we started playing the scene, the reason I didn't want to go to the party was so that I could stay and flirt with Vershínin. How obvious!

Acting Professor said to us:
- Allow yourself to go with the flow
- Trust yourself
- Work on your lines at home, and then don't worry about them when you're on stage... Whatever comes out, comes out.