Gestures

This was a short exercise that helps me discover our characters journeys. Even though my characters journey is not a big compared to others i soon realise that she discovers who she is an wants to make her country and ancestors proud.

My first action was me curled up into a ball saying the lines " Please Lieutenant  I am a servant" I decided to make this choice because it physically showed how scared she is about everything that's happening being away from her country and the only life that she has known into a new country with people who don't understand or know her.

My second action is me standing up "I can not be a disgrace to Madagascar" this is her final line in the play by this time she knows who she is and that she wants to make her people proud. I believe that as she is scared and originally didn't want to do that play she is using the new found confidence to perform.

Dress run

Working in our full costume and with the actual stage made me take into consideration the spacing of the performance and how loud we all have to be.  During this run I began to notice how my physicality and had to adapt it to the fact that we have 3 sides for the audience to watch from.

Since the space is big I have had to make my character much bigger then I thought he would be. Also because I am doing an accent my articulation has to be very good so everyone can understand what I am saying , this has lead me to make the choice in slowing down what I am saying. 

The feedback from the director was positive which has given me high hopes for the performance. But I still feel that certain parts of the play can be even tighter and flow smoothly.

Final costume fitting