13th November lesson 2

Character
This exercise was all about character and getting used to being brave and just committing to create a stereotypical bold character that in Brecht terms is easily recognisable.

The character I was given was terry tedious and he worked in a bar, as this character (stated in the name) was tedious I decided to make him over explain things creating an atmosphere where no one wanted to be around him.

Step one: we started with walking round the room and thinking about the physical features of our given character to make the audience acknowledge who they were. The choices I made were hunching my back and leading with my nose to indicate that he always wants to be apart of the conversation and control it.

Step two: we then added a short line to enhance our choices, my line was,"you want a fosters, you know fosters comes from Australia, and I have an aunt from Australia" I chose to extend and go into detail about a certain subject that wouldn't apply to any other character thus making the character present himself as tedious and existing to his name.

Step three: consisted of performing what we had created, I felt from what I had adapted it was successful when I committed to the character as it became more obvious which has made me learn the techniques when looking at character and Brecht it has shown me how the alienation technique operates and also how to present characters within a Brechtian performance thus improving my knowledge and understanding.
Secondly this exercise has made me understand why Brecht presents these characters I'm such a away due to the fact of them not being normal and thus breaking the normal theatre conventions. Also this is shown the same within the presentation of characters names as they show the characters personality before you have even seen them thus giving the audience the opportunity to ask why.