10th February 2015, Staging design and Goat Movement.

This lesson began with the whole cast setting up the staging, and making the chosses of how high we want sectons to be. Our set is very minimalistic, this makes it very easy to swap from scene to scene, like Lisa's brain has lots of things going on at once. The set is based around turrets, and follows aroud the sides of the stage and around the back. The hieghts differ some knee height to over the head. 

Here is a panorama of the set:

    Photo was taken by Henry Marshall.

The front of the set will be covered with board, which will be painted with black board paint, we will use this by writing words on that have links to the scenes, for example in the Britney scene we will write 'Hotdogs for Sale'. We will also use these boards to write down some of Lisa's emotion, that carry over with her as the play goes on. As my first character of the goat I made the desistion that i will start off my scene sitting in the dark on the top of the turret in the left of the picture. I will be here from quite early on in the play, this shows the audience Lisas connection with my character as he sits there watching what she does. 

By having the set as this one open area for the first act, it really changes Lisa's journey in the play, by her remaining in one location and all of the characters coming to her. For the second act we are getting rid of the set completly, and getting rid of the seating and just having the stage in a black area, with Lisa's hospital bed in the middle, The auidence will be mostly standing for this scene, this is make them feel uncomfortable and on edge, this would then link to Lisa's uncomfort with herself and her surroundings.

For the second half of the lesson, me and Henry (Parallel Cast) went into the dance studio and together started to play around with some characterisation ideas for the Goat. Both of us had come up with some inital ideas for the character and the main difference between both of our interpretations is my character was a lot more animated than Henrys, he played everything very subtle, which gave a mysterous edge to the character and made him seem very scary to Lisa. Whereas my interpretation of the Goat is very animated, and i had the use of big, bold facial exspression to show my characters feelings. This also gave the Goat a scary, dangerous nature as an audience would be note sure if the Goat is trust worthy towards Lisa from my interpretation.  When it came to the Goats vocals, we both had the same ideas, thathe should speak in a lower register, and keep very lower, which gives him a very suspicious, we felt that this was a very creative interpretation of this character, as the scene starts off by the Goat sounding like this whinny, child-like boy that just wants his own way, but by adding this voice to the character it really contrasts how he starts off. 

We also began to do a bit of work on movement, we tried to play around with pace and levels, in the way that he walks. We felt that walk fast and up-right made the character seem too open, as if he didnt have much to hide, but once we tried some of the scene, using very low posture, and walking quite slow it made him seem very mysterious.