UNIT 6- THE DUMB WAITER
Unit 6 - The Dumb Waiter
5/1/17
- In today's acting lesson we where working in the theater. We had an introduction to the new script work assignment. We where all given a script of 'The dumb waiter' and we read it through as a group taking turns to read aloud. The script, written by Harold Pinter, consists of 2 characters; Gus and Ben. Gus and Ben are two assassins waiting in the basement of a restaurant waiting for a call. The dialogue is the two characters chatting and wasting time. The status roles between the two characters are clear and I would say Gus has a very low status of 2/10 because of how forgetful, stupid, annoying and childish he can be. However, Ben has a higher status than Gus, and i know this because of how controlling, belittling, and clever Ben is compared to Gus. My personal opinion of the script is that theres a lot of context and the roles can be as big as you want to make them. I partnered with Carla and given the part of Gus from pages 1-2.
6/1/17
- Blog session
- We updated our blogs.
- Acting lesson
- For this acting lesson we continued with our blogs and running our lines for the dumb waiter in the blogging room.
9/1/17
- Blog session
-We blogged all day, this enabled me to catch up on a lot of missed out work
10/1/17
- I was absent
12/1/17
- I was absent
13/1/17
- Blog session- we updated our blogs
acting lesson- My partner for the dumb waiter project was absent so I worked with Brad who's partner was also absent, it was good to work with someone different and see how the relationship and energy in the piece changed. I performed my piece for the first time with Brad instead of my original partner Carla and it was very successful and we both worked well together, if something went wrong we was able to improvise around it and style it out and the audience would know no different as oppose to when I work with Carla she would stop the whole scene and ask to do it again.
16/1/17
- Blog Lesson
- Updated blogs again
- Acting lesson
- For majority of the lesson we rehearsed our dumb waiter scripts with our partners, this was good as me and my Carla haven't had time to clean up and run our piece to the point where we are confident with it due to absences.
17/1/17
- Acting lesson
- We started with a full body and vocal warm up, this helped us physically and vocally explore our characters and other peoples interpretations of our characters Ben and Gus.
We then further explored our characters and their attributes, personality and status. We discussed how old we thought they where and what other people and characters we can think of that relate to Ben and Gus. We agreed that Lennie from 'of mice and men' was a similar to my character Gus.
We then completed an exercise where we performed our duologues and our teacher would call out a feeling and we would have to portray the scene in the emotion given. e.g. Happy, excited, upset, worried, scared, joyful. This helped us evoke emotion in our pieces and helped us think about our thought process and the emotion of the lines instead of just reading them off the paper.
- Movement lesson (Observation lesson)
- We did the number warm up which we do to start of every lesson, where we walk around the space and when a number is called out we have to do the movement attached to the number. for example; 1- walk, 2- run, 3- jump. We then then worked in conjunction with another group performing our dances to each other then trying to combine them.
30/1/17
-Blog session
2/1/17
-Acting lesson
- As this was the lesson before our actual performance,the teacher decided to it would be best to take partners out to fine-tune our scene and make sure that everything was perfect. Whilst we were waiting for the teacher to come back and take other people out we ran through it whilst trying different things that we had not tried before. We did this till the end of the lesson where we were given our final pieces of feedback on how we could all improve on our scenes to make them better.
3/1/16
The Dumb Waiter Project - Performance Evaluation
I think the performance went well, I think the fluidity of our scene was good and we both remembered our lines and used pause for effect. Taking our time with it really helped us deliver our lines. I think we could have used the space more and developed our physical performance. Although the audience was very small I think we had a good volume level and we didn't brake the fourth wall or get distracted by the audience.
5/1/17
- In today's acting lesson we where working in the theater. We had an introduction to the new script work assignment. We where all given a script of 'The dumb waiter' and we read it through as a group taking turns to read aloud. The script, written by Harold Pinter, consists of 2 characters; Gus and Ben. Gus and Ben are two assassins waiting in the basement of a restaurant waiting for a call. The dialogue is the two characters chatting and wasting time. The status roles between the two characters are clear and I would say Gus has a very low status of 2/10 because of how forgetful, stupid, annoying and childish he can be. However, Ben has a higher status than Gus, and i know this because of how controlling, belittling, and clever Ben is compared to Gus. My personal opinion of the script is that theres a lot of context and the roles can be as big as you want to make them. I partnered with Carla and given the part of Gus from pages 1-2.
6/1/17
- Blog session
- We updated our blogs.
- Acting lesson
- For this acting lesson we continued with our blogs and running our lines for the dumb waiter in the blogging room.
9/1/17
- Blog session
-We blogged all day, this enabled me to catch up on a lot of missed out work
10/1/17
- I was absent
12/1/17
- I was absent
13/1/17
- Blog session- we updated our blogs
acting lesson- My partner for the dumb waiter project was absent so I worked with Brad who's partner was also absent, it was good to work with someone different and see how the relationship and energy in the piece changed. I performed my piece for the first time with Brad instead of my original partner Carla and it was very successful and we both worked well together, if something went wrong we was able to improvise around it and style it out and the audience would know no different as oppose to when I work with Carla she would stop the whole scene and ask to do it again.
16/1/17
- Blog Lesson
- Updated blogs again
- Acting lesson
- For majority of the lesson we rehearsed our dumb waiter scripts with our partners, this was good as me and my Carla haven't had time to clean up and run our piece to the point where we are confident with it due to absences.
17/1/17
- Acting lesson
- We started with a full body and vocal warm up, this helped us physically and vocally explore our characters and other peoples interpretations of our characters Ben and Gus.
We then further explored our characters and their attributes, personality and status. We discussed how old we thought they where and what other people and characters we can think of that relate to Ben and Gus. We agreed that Lennie from 'of mice and men' was a similar to my character Gus.
We then completed an exercise where we performed our duologues and our teacher would call out a feeling and we would have to portray the scene in the emotion given. e.g. Happy, excited, upset, worried, scared, joyful. This helped us evoke emotion in our pieces and helped us think about our thought process and the emotion of the lines instead of just reading them off the paper.
- Movement lesson (Observation lesson)
- We did the number warm up which we do to start of every lesson, where we walk around the space and when a number is called out we have to do the movement attached to the number. for example; 1- walk, 2- run, 3- jump. We then then worked in conjunction with another group performing our dances to each other then trying to combine them.
30/1/17
-Blog session
2/1/17
-Acting lesson
- As this was the lesson before our actual performance,the teacher decided to it would be best to take partners out to fine-tune our scene and make sure that everything was perfect. Whilst we were waiting for the teacher to come back and take other people out we ran through it whilst trying different things that we had not tried before. We did this till the end of the lesson where we were given our final pieces of feedback on how we could all improve on our scenes to make them better.
3/1/16
The Dumb Waiter Project - Performance Evaluation
I think the performance went well, I think the fluidity of our scene was good and we both remembered our lines and used pause for effect. Taking our time with it really helped us deliver our lines. I think we could have used the space more and developed our physical performance. Although the audience was very small I think we had a good volume level and we didn't brake the fourth wall or get distracted by the audience.
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