Tuesday 17th March - Start of Act one run.

In this lesson we spent some time on act one, we spent half an hour on each cast, then swapped. By having this shorter time scale of the act, and not completing the whole act, meant that some characters didn't make an appearance. My first character in the act is Passanger Two. This is a very short scene, but I really wanted to think about my character. My character in this scene talks very negative about people and how he wants to hurt them. I have interpreted this character as someone being negative or abusive towards Lisa. To show this is tried different ways of saying my lines in this scene. One way that I tried out in this rehearsal was having my character being very blunt and straight with his lines, this showed the audiene that my characters abusive side doesn't phase him. The other way was directing all of the negative lines towards Lisa. By putting emphasis on the negative words, such as snap, stamp, break. This turns it into a threat towards Lisa, and makes her feel uncomfortable, as I play all of my lines towards her and get close to her with my body language, Thai made the whole lift scene feel very tense and threatening.

As one of my bigger scenes doesn't appear in the earlier part of act one, I went into a seperate room and did some work on my goat scene with the other casts goat. We looked into how the goat would move around the stage, and where in the scene we would get closer to Lisa and then further away to add the threatening side to him and the danger. By going through the scene, and pin pointing lines that need to be more intermate this made the scene come to life, I also realised that some of my lines could be turned into a darker side. Such as 'Tend to cluster round your bum'. Before this I had been saying this line in a joking manner but but changing the tone, and getting closer to Lisa gave the audience an idea that my character can be nasty even from the first few lines. One this that I want to work on is making my character of the Goats, objectives clearer and making the change clearer, by using my body language and playing around with how obvious to an audience that my character focus has changed.