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Residential - Old nick Theatre - 5-6/11/16


Log for the first part of the residential:


Here is the video of the piece my group created, amalgamating the material collected from the morning's exercises. It is an abstract sequence movements that shows Antigone's fight for what she believes in.
On the evening of the first day, we took part in an incredibly immersive role play, in which we were all given characters and were to act within those characters for at least 3 and a half hours in the scenario of being locked in a dungeon. This experience was a really interesting way of exploring a character, feeling the true power of their emotions, feeling the way that that influences their actions and how their actions affected the course of the role play. I was given the character of Myriam, a young lesbian muslim from Iran, situated in the dungeon on her search for her lover who was imprisoned for killing the guards that were sent to kill Myriam due to her sexuality. After the role play, I felt I had an incredibly strong grasp on this character, I was fully aware of her characteristics, voice, emotions, movement. So when it came to the next morning and we were asked to create a short scene with our partner, acting out a pivotal moment in the story of our lives, we found it possible to just improvise the scene in our characters then improve upon it, taking the audience into consideration. We decided to create the scene in which Myriam and her partner, Sarah, meet for the first time. It is set in a war torn Iran, my character separated from her family and consoled by Emily's slightly older, more confident character. The video is linked below.
At the end of the residential, we worked on the movements we had started to work on in Wednesdays lesson when staging the opening scene of Antigone. We incorporated some of the shoulder to shoulder and hand to hand movements from the previous days work and did our sequences to the speed of the movement.

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