In this lesson we mainly focused on our characters in act two, we began the lesson doing the 7 levels of tension warm up. we began walking around at a level 3, this is neutral then we were instructed to change the levels as we walk around the room. This went from level 1 which is very slow, as if we are not moving at all. Then we went to the other end of the scale which is a level 7, this is fast paced as if we were late for something, this brought a lot of energy to the room.
We were then told to link our characters in the play to a level of tension. For my first character of 'Passenger 2' I placed him at a level just above neutral, this is because he is talking about negative things, about inflicting pain on people. However I didn't want to place him to high as I didn't want him to seem like he was getting to worked up about the matter. For my second character of the 'Goat' I placed him quite low at the start of the scene, as he is feeling very sorry for himself, but as the scene goes on I raised his level of tension as he becomes closer to Lisa. I think this worked well as my character became more excitable at the end of the scene, and then the audience could predict that something was about to happen. For my last character in the play (Vince), it was decided that he would be quite low on the scale, as if he is very laid back and slow with his movements, this showed that Vince had given up with Lisa and feels like he can just let her to do her own thing.
For the second half of the lesson in our separate casts, we did a run of Act Two. In this act I play Vince. When doing this I realised the tension between Lisa and Vince, and how offish his lines come across. I think it was good to get a ruff run of Act Two in as we wont be coming back to it for a while, as we work on act one.
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