Week 2 - Road

We starting blocking this week and discussing our characters and how they act. My character Doreen is a flirty character and I think she would show that throughout the play so everything little action she does would be flirty in someway. After going through all of the scenes and blocking them it has helped me get a sense of my characters and their relationships with the other characters in the play. For example Lane and Doreen are best friends in my eyes, the both like to have fun, be flirty and have a good old laugh. I would say out of all the women in the play they are the most loose, they're not really bothered if boys want something from them because they will give it to them. I made some notes on Wednesday when we blocked pages 14-40. I felt like the scenes switched from funny to serious to funny to serious again. There was real comical bit with Bisto and his scene which I thought is a great scene and Luke plays Bisto really well. It's important for us all the remember energy! With everything we say and do we need to put a lot of energy into our voices and gestures.

 

This play is sent in Lancashire which means we have to learn a northern accent. We started this week and I am finding it really difficult as I'm not good at accents. Laura was helping us by putting up words on the board and saying how some sounds or letters change with others. She said them first and then we repeated, I did find this very helpful but at this stage I still need someone to say it first.

 

 

 

After this we went and tried it with our lines I picked the line "Oooh eh look here!" which is a northern accents comes out like "ooo a look ere". The good thing about doing this is now I've said it with the accent I can't actually say it without the accent which means I am getting their slowly, just need to practise. Laura also put up the alphabet and a, e, I, o, u and we had to go through the alphabet. For example saying ba, be, bi, bo, bu but in the accent. I did find it quite hard and needed Laura to say it first but I have been going through it and I think I'm getting it.