Curious Incident:  Day 14

Today, we carried on with act 1 from page 15 onwards. This all went smoothly and throughout we refined a few parts to our creative scenes. Such as adding more hustle to our London train station scene, which was successfully achieved.

In terms of developing my own skills as an actor, I am starting to think about how I can play my three different characters. By doing these creative scenes I am trying to play different people each time, however this is only physical, but helps me decide the body language of my real characters in the play.

My research this week is on a real London train station scene, to see if we can replicate such a situation and if we are giving an accurate representation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xG-meaGqg-M&spfreload=10

I am aware that this video is a great deal busier than that of any London station, but to someone like Christopher, I can imagine it feeling as if all the people in the world are rushing past him, and he'd have to endure such a feeling of panic and anxiety all the time.

I believe today's lesson was very successful again. Every time we run through the play we are getting better and better. We will keep pushing onwards and refining as much as we can possibly refine. The whole play is making sense and running well.All we have to do is get the scripts down as soon as possible so we can carry out lifts without having to read or script or put it down, which will help the speed of the play, making it more encapsulating

To develop the play further I believe I have to play a wider range of characters, as does everybody who has more than one character. For example, Roger would behave differently to the Duty Sergeant. In my eyes the Duty Sergeant would be very kind and understanding as he is trained to deal with people. He would be very relaxed and easy to understand. However, Roger would not know how to deal with Christopher as he has no training or children to use his experiences from. I believe he would be very awkward and almost blunt and insensitive, perhaps just a little confused. I also believe accents will be very beneficial in showing contrasts between characters so my voice isn't the same throughout, however the accent has to be realistic, so I will not pretend to be Chinese as it would look ridiculous, and I also have to be able to convincingly put it on, failure to do so would make me look like a fool and damage the performance.