Curious Incident: Day 2

Our second day of rehearsals began with a similar to the first. We walked around the room trying not to come into contact with anyone, we then progressed to running and not bumping into anyone, which is very difficult.

After a few minutes we stopped and were made to find a partner. With our partner we had to walk up to one another, with one of us grabbing the others head and throwing them away. Then, we moved onto pushing into each other and turning out, before holding each others arms, leaning back and catapulting ourselves forward. Whilst doing this we had to make our actions as big and violent as possible to portray our hatred towards each other. We then went for a run through, alternating our action each time.

Afterwards, we stood face to face with our partner and one of us had to type in our phone number on a dial pad, but had to make it as big as possible whilst our partner had to mirror the typer.

Finally, we were given our scripts and paired up again. We found all of the scenes we were in and began acting them out, with our partner reading in for different characters. We done this so we, as a class, could work out how to stage things and contribute our own ideas to show that we made the play our own and were not directed the whole time. This helped us show off more than just acting skills, but communication, directing and team work.