Research
- Research your topics in groups
- Perform your presentation in groups
- Research to be written up in blogs/logbooks individually
Annotating Your Text
- Research and annotate your text with any words that you don't know or understand. Digest the meaning and pronunciation and share with other characters playing your role.
- Annotate your text with thought changes. Breath is inspiration each new thought is a new breath.Use a forward slash (/) to denote these thought changes.
- Mark the beat changes in your scenes
- Find the objective/need/want for each scene you play
- Write out the facts and opinions for your scene (what do you say about yourself and what do others say about you)
- Share your facts and opinions with the other people playing your character
Imagination Exercises
- Write an entry about the tempo/rhythm of your character
- Write an entry about your characters secret - a thing that only you know about your character.
- Write out a diary entry or letter touching a significant moment in the play for your character. Put yourself in their shoes (magic if).
- Write an entry about your characters soundtrack or favourite music
- Write an entry about what animal your character would be
Object Exercise
- Find someone to watch that inspires your character
- Observe them in action
- recreate 2 lived minutes for your character inspired by this person. Choose a location, an objective and an action.
- Who am I?
- Where am I?
- What time is it?
- What surrounds me?
- What's my relationship to my surroundings?
- What are my given circumstances (what's just happened)
- What do I want? (objective)
- What's in my way? (obstacle)
- What will I do to get what I want? (action)
