Peparation for Specialist Study

Overall, the feedback I received from Rob, commenting on the first term, was positive. He believed I am a good team player; working with others is a good skill of mine and I enjoy it, especially going into the acting game. I was expected to develop ideas in line with the rehearsal requirements, which I feel since working with bigger casts I make use of the rehearsal space more and bring more ideas to the table. The scripts have been more in depth having done Stanislavsky which his practises have been more complex than that of the origins of Greek theatre so, it would need more in depth rehearsal to reach the requirements of Stanislavsky work to drive forward with his scripts. Having also completed Macbeth, That was the biggest group we had worked in since starting. The text had more underlying messages that we need to unlock with research and ideas during rehearsal, the language barrier between modern times and Jacobean times had stumped the rehearsal process slightly because we need more rehearsal time to work as a group to be able to fully understand not only our parts but the whole script as a cast because it was the working with others that had actually made it work. I was informed that I use good space of the dynamic however we all pretty much used centre stage, perhaps shy of the spacing since starting out in our first performance. However, I feel I have improved in sense of staging but I could perhaps move down stage more and not be situated towards the back next production. My listening and reacting skills were good from the start but I feel I have improved a lot with the practise of being "in the moment", and sometimes the spontaneity of being on stage also helps because it feels for real that its happening. But the topics of the plays that I have had to perform in have been a lot more in depth and more challenging that have improved my listening and reacting.

The skills I feel I possess strongly are flexibility, vulnerability, confidence. I feel that being flexible will increase your chance for hire in any job not just drama. It means that your easy in terms that you manage your time well and you will be able to make rehearsal and how many characters you are required to play. Being vulnerable means that you open up to your surroundings more than others and that you show your emotions better. If you were uptight and were vague with showing how you felt in that given circumstance then it wont be clear to the audience; you need to channel your own feelings to be able to show off the character that your are playing, it wont happen if you don't allow your self to be transparent. my confidence has grown within starting the college. I fel t that what we have been taught at west king in terms of improvisation and naturalism, i.e; you don't need to put on a big booming posh voice to act, you will come across more believable if you acted it truthfully if you were in the situation just as long as it fits the character you're playing; has opened up my eyes to new horizons in the acting game. I'm used to the stage now, and cannot perhaps be scared of how the audience would react because 1.) you hardly see the audience anyway with the lights and 2.) every audience will be different if you to perform on stage or you may get hate comments online if you performed on tv or film. I try not to be pretentious during rehearsal or the pieces as a whole because we are all in the same boat as each other, no one is more important than one another. What I do feel I do strongly though is working collaboratively within a team. Previously, Rob commented as stated above that I am a good team player. No matter if I have problems with someone off stage shouldn't come across if I am , for example; playing Jacob or Scott on stage. They are completely different people to me so will have different reactions and opinions to me. It drags down the whole piece when just because someone may not like someone may try and put you off to make their acting look better. If you put aside differences and came to the conclusion that perhaps yes, we both my not get on but for the sake of the production we must put it behind us for rehearsals and performance. No one cares if you continue to hate each-other while you're sitting in your homes. I believe that you would get no where if you thought that way, you wont get away with that in any old job so it shouldn't pass with drama; if someone has wronged you badly take it up with someone higher, but if not then be adult about it and move on, its life. Simple as that, you wont like everybody in life. But its the team that drives the piece so having good team skills makes the production seem more professional. I have also been regarded as a cultural sponge. I obviously have my own culture that I follow, but I don't see where judging others based on theirs would be necessary or logical anyway especially in the acting industry. In acting, or any job really you will find a tone of a load of people who come from different backgrounds and adopt certain subcultures. But should they be judged based on this, is should think not. As much as I embrace different eras of music and culture my mind isn't permanently stuck in loop of the prejudices people held back then. Its unwise because when acting it draws people together and if you choose not mix culturally then why should you be able to be apart of the profession.

In terms of where I wanna go post college,  I want to head down the drama school and university route. I have had a good hard think about this. I was a little bit in denial of where I wanted to end up when I left college and I admit now I was slightly in denial because part of me wanted to go head first into acting as soon as I left, but now I know it's not as simple as that. I like the look at three possible places working in drama and film. Mountview, Guilford or Chelmsford (University). I want to go to a drama school as my first choice but I'd go to a university s a back up plan, however I would consider a university as a place of study for me if the course offered more than what a drama school may have offered. I aim to achieve this by working and prove that I am liable for good grading. I will do my own research such as method acting, for example; if I was to play a police officer I would ask the local police station if it was possible to attend in my free time to do some research for my character. I will also make sure I learn my script as soon as I get it so I have more time to do research of my character and more experimenting with my character in rehearsal. I aim to also get the amount of grades and stick to the criteria in order for me to reach the highest grades possible- if I aim high and receive the grades then I'll be secured for the place I want to go, other than put no effort in.



Monologue


The monologue I will be performing is a scene from Sandi Toksvig's "The Bully Boy", playing the part of Eddie. Eddie is a vulnerable character who is clearly broken from the impact of war. He is unhinged as he watched his friends melt in front of him as they died from the explosion from the van. He blames Oscar who made him get in the van in front causing him to survive the explosion, saying if he was with his mates he would have died with them, which he wishes because that's all he thinks about now. my characters objectives are to make Oscar understand what he's going through because he asked him to go in the van in front. He also wants to show how he tried to get his friends out but it was too late.

Feed back from our performance 24/06/19

Robs overall feed back was that we should all keep our eyeline up and perform it to the back of room and not to the ground. It will show that we aren't as confident and also the drama isn't happening on the ground its happening on the stage and your showing the audience this. we need to keep clothing simple and block colours, no patterns on them. It distracts and pulls focus from the acting on stage to the (e.g.) Levi's logo on your t-shirt. Even if you were trying to show it was perhaps set in the 80s/90s predominantly the eras with outrageous pattern, you could still wear block colours- even if the 80s were about denim and neon colours, it doesn't have to be over the top to be colourful - but the examiner or person whom is auditioning you are only really focusing on yourself and talent not what you're wearing. When you are in a group audition like we were today it may become tedious waiting to be auditioned or when you have already been auditioned but we must refrain from sitting on our phones. If you have already performed then people have watched you while you performed, so be generous and give some attention back, it is only going to last for 2 minutes per person. You will be out the door even if your audition was good because it shows you don't care about others who you may be working with, acting is mainly about team work so if you cant show someone a bit of respect for two minutes what will it be like working with them. Have confidence. As soon as you appear you have got your stuff together then it will show you know what your talking about. Don't apologise for muck ups because guaranteed the examiner will not know every play on earth so if you mess up a line and just flow with it, i.e; Improvising - then no one will notice it will appear as part of the play. it's all about the recover if you do mess up that's what they want to see as much as someone performing a flawless piece. We shouldn't cut corners with our work. Sometimes, we have all been culprits of it before in our lives, that if something goes wrong we tend to say, "oh that will do", when really if you have someone who has rehearsed their lines, studied  their play and delved deep into the scene and character, if they have mucked up they have the right to say that will do because they put the effort in anyway. It can be obvious who put the effort in and who learnt their monologue ten minutes before. we are all good enough to do it so just do it.

Personal feedback

Rob seemed to like the piece- he said it was a good speech. For future reference, I should refrain from using an accent because he feels that the examiner won't be focusing as much on you playing the character but how you do it as an actor. Obviously they are seeing you come across in the scene of who you're meant to be playing but they really want to see you and what you have to offer.
When performing a sad scene, I need to control my breath because it seems like I'm hyperventilating and could pass out at any minute. you can breathe heavily if it suits the moment but I shouldn't let the breathing drive the piece as a whole, it should come across with voice, facial expressions and body language. it also takes the moment away from the dialogue and speech. To finish it off Rob said I had nice vulnerability- showing how hurt my character was and letting the audience feel my emotion as I was going through it; and to let them see right through to the characters core.   

inspiration in modernising our performance and post production ideas

We were shown numerous adaptations of Macbeth, but came to the conclusion that our group sort of wanted to steer away from that because we wanted our work to be unique. But we did watch the 1996 version of Romeo and Juliet and quite liked the fact they were dressed modern and everything was set in modern times but the text was still dated to Shakespearean times.

We were truly inspired by the fact of having it modern because the audience members of today's generation would find it hard watching something they don't particularly understand so to make them engaged and enjoy our production we added a rap at the start when the witches say their entering lines in the very first scene. We also decided to keep costume very modern because of the inspiration to the Romeo and Juliet modern theme; although we dressed with status , we had Macbeth in a suit , most noble men like Malcolm in casual suits , i.e: shirt and blazer but no tie; lady Macbeth in a dress, and most noble women in dresses.

We kept with the conservative dress code because we weren't meant to be like street type , we still wanted to show that we had status and were in a regal setting but we didn't like the idea of suits of armour and dated clothing because it's too old fashioned we wanted this to be Macbeth 2019 not 1619.

For soundtrack ideas were really inspired by game of thrones. It is of similar genre as in there is a monarchy and there are battle scenes. It fit well when we had tense scenes such as Duncan's murder and battle scenes for example; the murderer scene and Malcolm and Macbeth's showdown.
We also used a range of modern music. There is a scene where there is a party going on at Duncan's castle and Macbeth comes on stage intoxicated, in our official production JP who played Macbeth played to the audience by dancing and he got quite a lot of jeer and hype from them. We wanted to have modern music because ether majority of young people listen to that and our main goal was to connect with the audience and help them to engage better with the old fashioned story we trying to tell. At the end , when Malcolm is crowned king , we had a song relating to crowning as it faded into a blackout. it worked really well because it added a nice finish to quite a smooth ending and the audience loved it.

During production we always had the idea of the witches entering in the first scene from the audience. As our main idea for the witches were like they were the hidden directors for the play they caused any chaos and actions for this ; they provided the prophesies it was up for the character to fulfil them , but we liked the idea that since they entered from the audience they were somewhat like an audience member watching the plot unfold as they caused it . But also the audience don't expect them to be there so they go " where did they come from?" Which the characters also ask too so it adds to the mystery and shadiness to their characters.

For the lights we liked the idea of thunder and lightning being present when the witches were on stage. It adds to the suspension of disbelief because obviously the audience know it's a play but with lightning and sound and believable acting skills , it takes it away from being a play and makes it more real for the audience.
When Macbeth killed Duncan we loved the idea that the stage lighting gets more red as the plot unfolds with each murder happening (Duncan's, Banquo's, macduff's family and young syward's) to show the fact that their guilt is getting bigger more blood is their hands and that corruption and devil like qualities is taking over.  However when Macbeth is later slayed, we liked the idea that the red would clear into a lighter blue , to evoke day time and also the fact that the castle is free from guilt and bad things happening now as it's been put to rest.

Overall I feel that our production of Macbeth worked well to a tee because we had the acting there, we had Shakespeare's work present in our speech but all that was different was the time period and clothing being modern. The audience seemed to enjoy it which is what we wanted, because that's who needs to be impressed and understand the work they came to see.

Macbeth - context and my characters

                                         

                                        Macbeth

context

Macbeth is an English tragedy play written in 1606 by English Playwright William Shakespeare.
It tells the tale of ambition and strive to achieve, supressing the consequences and committing whatever crime it takes to get what they want; thus being murder and treason. the witches represented the evil force of nature , influencing Macbeth and poring evil into his ear.
this was written in the Jacobean era in which people believed in black magic, and witch craft.
James the 1st , who was reigning at the time, had a love for ghost story's and witchery ; he would attend many witch trials which women, primarily wrongly accused of being witches whom the public believed would use their black magic to commit treason, would be burned at the stake.
Macbeth is loosely based on true events of a real life king of Scotland in the 11th century.
This Macbeth was born around 1005 and in August 1040 he killed the then reigning king Duncan in a battle near the area Elgin, Morayshire. He then became king and his marriage to Gruoch ,       Kenneth III's granddaughter made the chance of him becoming king thicker. in 1045, Macbeth defeated Duncan's father Crinan at Dunkeld. 14 years since his coronation, it is said he ruled with fairness knuckled down on law and order and encouraged Christian values. it is speculated that he was a brave and courageous leader, making many successful forays over the boarder of Northumbria, England. In 1054, Macbeth was challenged to duel with Siward, The earl of Northumbria, who tried to return his nephew Malcom Canmore, who was Duncan's son, to the throne. In August 1057, 17 years after Macbeth's triumph, Macbeth was defeated in the battle of Lumphanan in Aberdeenshire by Malcolm Canmore , [then] Malcolm III.

Mythology and biblical Allusions added to make Shakespeare's adaption of the story of the Scottish king.
Its is referred to as the morality play as the main theme of Morality and evil which recur throughout the play. Morality is the sense of good and evil and differing between the two. There is moral evil and natural evil. Moral evil can be Murder because you know what is wrong and what is right but morally know what you are doing is wrong. Natural evil can be defined as such as earthquakes and anything bad caused by something that isn't conducted by anything human. So the question of morality within the play argues whether Macbeth morally wanted to kill Duncan himself for his own ambition or whether he was swayed by his manipulative/overbearing wife or the presence of evil (the witches recurring throughout the play / the recurring theme). Obviously, he did play his part but the witches foresaw that he will inevitably become king, and it cannot be undone so no matter if Macbeth had tried to prevent the prophesy it would happen without a doubt .
Duncan also represents a Christ like figure. He quotes a line of ," I will plant thee, and will labour/ to make thee full of growing,". The idea of planting men and letting them flourish is evident in the, "Old Testament".  However since Macbeth killed Duncan he also killed the "roots" of good that had been planted. This practically means that the evil is so powerful and because Duncan represented all that is good and when his death comes it kills all things good in the world thereafter.

My characters

Witch three - The witches are the most significant because they somewhat narrate the play. They are always current at the most pivotal points, i.e.; the prophesy predicting Macbeth's crowning of king, and Macbeth enquiring what shall happen to his future in his reign (the apparition scene) Whenever the theme of morality and ambition evokes, they seem to be the ones present. They are the underlying forces in which they prepare the actions but its up to the characters to carry them out.
In terms of what we imagined them to look like; we chose capes for the witches to wear so they look sinister and seem to then be hiding their true identity - no one knows where they came from and why. We decided that they first enter from the audience, so they seem like they are watching the prophesies they dish out unfold and watching from the shadows they chaos they have caused. They play apart of the audience really because they watch the combination of their prophesies and Macbeth/Lady Macbeth's ambition and morality take its toll. Their main objective is to appear shady and cause underlying chaos without being forward or explicit.

The dying captain - Although, only on stage for a minute or so, the captain can be seen as quite pivotal. He gives an insight on the battle Macbeth just had victory in; how it didn't look that much in the early stages of the duel, but Macbeth's resilience and strategy pulled through and that he won. this will show how courageous and brave Macbeth was and that how rewarded Macbeth must be for his accomplishment. The wounded captain is essentially feeding Macbeth's ego to Malcolm and Duncan, which is the very roots for Macbeth and Lady Macbeth's growing ambition. Seen as the captain is dying, he makes sure,  if this be his last breath, he puts praise and good words in for Macbeth as he now idolises him for his great show during battle. This would seem pivotal as he wasn't much worried by the fact he could be dying but he was so awestruck by the fact Macbeth triumphed that he had to tell Duncan and Malcolm, if it was the last thing he did . Because he praised him so much that was why Duncan considered him so much for the thane of Cawdor. we had a bloody shirt for the captain to wear as we wanted to convey to the audience that he was injured.

The porter - The porter scene is a comic relief, Duncan has just been murdered and to let the audience somewhat recover from misery Shakespeare added the comedic scene so it relieves the tension that had just happened at that point within the play and calms audience down with laughter. He is extremely stocious due to heavy drinking. He is strange and quite quirky. He is an underlying metaphor because he is pretending to be the gatekeeper for hell (Duncan had just been murdered). He transitions from the supernatural story to a more dramatic side to the story. He evokes imagery that since Duncan was killed that castle is now the gates of hell. Shakespeare views the castle as,"the castle of death and corruption",  due to Macbeth/lady Macbeth's murderous acts.

Murderer three - The murderer scenes are very pivotal because Macbeth is now slaughtering those whom he feels may try and get their hands on the throne. My main scene as the murderer is in the scene where Banquo is killed. We had a special man come in and run and run a workshop with us -teaching us fighting skills. for our groups production, we had to look like we were beating Banquo to death. it was very fun to do and it came across professional and felt like we were real hit men when performing as them. for this I wore my parker which seemed very military like.

attendant - this is the scene where Lady Macbeth is blurting out that she killed someone, not specifying whom, but this is when she is properly breaking down and going mad. The attendant along with the doctor notice how she "rubs her hands", (which the audience knows that she thinks her hands are coated in Duncan's blood), and she says quite a lot of things that don't make sense, yet she is fast asleep. She has gone so mad she is sleep walking, which spooks the doctor and the attendant.

Costume/ Set /Staging

 On Tuesday the 29th January, we as a group were deciding how we will map out the stage. The first scene includes the witches so we'll need a cauldron or a bucket that at least represents a cauldron, etc...

We thought that the lights will fill with a darker red as the show goes on to show the bloodshed, anger and madness, yet when Macbeth is killed at the end, the lights will neutralise to show evil has been stopped.


obviously, the theatre will be in the round but it doesn't have to make a circle. the audience just have to surround the actors, so we thought of  benches that the audience will sit on with gaps at either end so the actors can enter and exit the space.

We also decided as a sinister effect, the Witches will sit in the audience and rise on each of their line and make their entrance into the space.

Notes on various different costumes decided as a collective

Below, for my costume of a hitman when I'm playing the role of the murderer ( essentially a hitman) I have taken inspiration of my costume to be a polo shirt/ chino trousers and boat shoes to add that casual/ smart look; this adds effect to how casually they will murder Macduff's family.

Rehearsals

We've jumped head first into rehearsal now and I feel that over the last couple of weeks the play is starting to take shape. Lines are coming a lot more with ease, especially playing the witch for me. 

We've got on with rehearsal really well, and now we've started working properly in our little groups (Pink, Black and Blue) we have got a lot more done. 

Although ben is shown directing; Daniella is my groups (Blue) official director. I feel that she is doing a really great job, and now I feel that she is directing as a whole, our groups piece is taking shape, and she allows us to have input too which I feel is great so it makes our group and piece wholesome and universal.

Ben in action directing the group

This is the scene where I am playing the porter. There is a strange knocking and I'm practically comparing it as though the knocking is the devils work condemning someone to hell. I am also very drunk, I'm supposed to keep guard on who enters the castle. He then starts to joke around pretending to be the porter of hell and condemning three examples of men. But still hearing the knocking kind of shakes him and he realises that this isn't hell, and in fact will stop mucking about, because he was going to let almost every Tom, Dick and Harry into hell. 

As he is about to find the keys to find the source of the knocking, almost caught in the act of being drunk, Macduff takes him by surprise. 

He explains all the side affects that drink can provoke. He also explains that it causes the urge to want to have sex, but takes away the performance.

I've had fun in rehearsals playing him, he's very different to any character I've ever played. He plays the comic relief; Duncan has been killed so rather than have audience being depressed all the way through, they have a character make the audience laugh as a sort of break from misery. 

The ease with playing this character is that you can almost get away with adlibbing or adding certain extra quirks; to make his drunkenness appear true.

William shakespeare - Context

William Shakespeare (26th April 1564 - 23rd April 1604)

Facts about Shakespeare 

William Shakespeare was born in Stratford upon Avon on 26th April 1546.He is considered the worlds most famous dramatists; writing over 38 plays and 154 sonnets. He most likely to have received a classical Latin education at the kings new school. Shakespeare worked as an actor, writer and co-owner of a drama company called, " The Lords chamberlain men" later known as the kings men. He was acquainted with Queen Elizabeth the first. His greatest plays consist of , Hamlet, King Lear , Othello, Macbeth and Romeo + Juliet. Shakespeare's popularity blossomed after the romantic period and Victorian period - receiving praise of the poets such as , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Victor Hugo and Voltaire. In the introduction to the first Folio, Playwright Ben Johnson wrote a preface for him writing, (Shakespeare) is not of an age, but of all time. "Bardolatry", was a term created by George Barnard Shaw to describe anything Shakespearian during the Victorian period. 

By 1592, He received acclaim for a "jack of all trades"; he received the first literary criticism with playwright Robert Greene. Shakespeare acted in many of his plays. He was well acquainted with Queen Elizabeth. 

His plays are mainly categorised into three separate divisions;

Comedies: "much ado about nothing", " All's well ends well" 

Histories: "Henry V" , "Cleopatra"

Tragedies: "Macbeth" "Romeo and Juliet", "Othello"

Shakespeare's words

Iambic pentameter is a style of poetry that refers to the number of syllables in a line and the emphasis placed on the syllables. Shakespeare never invented this style, but he used it many times in his plays and sonnets. in poetry, two syllables together are called a foot, for example, ; The Dog in the line of poetry would be considered a foot. If in the line, "the" was unstressed but "Dog" was stressed its represented as "Da Dum", sort of flows like a heartbeat. The unstressed/stressed foot is considered to be an Iamb , which is where the term iambic Pentameter derives from. 

In poetry "meter" is referred to the pattern of syllables in a line; "Penta" means five, so five feet of iambs. in a line. For example, of Shakespeare; 

for SOFT | what LIGHT | through YON | der WIN | dow Breaks |

 da Dum  |       da Dum   |      da Dum      |    da Dum  |   da Dum  |  

I feel that now I have read the translation of my part as captain it has aided me in showing the truest performance I can do. I have gotten the gist that he is injured from the bloody broil that Macbeth succeeded in. He is giving an overview of the battle, how they couldn't tell who would win and who'd lose, as it was almost in plain sight that MacDonwald would win because of the size of his army and lady luck had been with him. but Macbeth had the upper hand, chopped his way through the army and eventually beheaded Macdonwald. 

I feel that the grittiest form of language should be most emphasised because you want to show the extent and give images to the audience that what they'd been through was a bloody battle. 

for this scene I am on the floor entirely, I should be gripping at my side to show that I'd been stabbed and attacked by the enemies. I should take my time with the delivery of the speech, to add emphasis on the fact that I'm wounded. 

broken hearted youth theatre (BHYT)

On the 28th of November we had our first meeting with two members from broken hearted youth.
They helped us in the sense of direction. They directed us and we followed. This really helps because in the acting industry we will need to understand that direction is important and if we cant follow simple instructions the whole play will fall apart because you'll have random actors being on stage when not needed or actors just doing what they want, which is unacceptable.

We played this game called columns. There were five vertical columns, we all labelled column one to five. If one member said the number 2, column two had to jump. If they said 3,3 column three had to jump twice. If they said column 1,4 , columns one and four had to quickly swap places. If they said column 41 , it was the same as the previous example and so on. you were caught out if you jumped when you shouldn't have or swapped, if you were in the wrong column. But the point of the game was being on the ball and taking direction seriously. I thought it was fun , even though I was the first to be out.

Secondly we talked about cartooning. This is when you think of someone , say and old man that you see everyday on the way to college or work. You know how they act and their mannerisms but the point of the exercise and the name is to act like the person your thinking of but exaggerated, like in cartoons, the drawings are sometimes exaggerated and the mannerisms are over the top.
we partnered up, in this case my partner was Kieran. We had to act as the character that the opposite partner came up with, so I was Kieran's character, and Kieran was mine. But whoever was becoming the character had to act like clay and our partner essentially moulded us into place. So Kieran became my eccentric neighbour down the end of my landing, because I live in a flat, and I became Kieran's younger brother.

The final exercise of the day was that we had to write a short speech. They were all jumbled up at the end and everyone ended up with someone else's speech. They were all performed. The topic was random.


On the 17th of December, Three members of B.H.Y came in and this lesson was a longer duration than the previous. This time we spoke about the practitioner Sanford Meisner who taught that acting is behaving truthfully in given circumstances, but essentially the whole piece would look believable if the actors rely on each other and not just themselves.
We played a few warm up games, but the first task we did was that he asked us to count all the lights in the room. Now some people went around the room, was quite lazy and didn't bother to try and count all the lights, where as some people did try and may have still got it wrong but that was still okay. The point is that you need to try your best even though it may be difficult to do but still acing is about giving your all and if you don't it could let the whole team down.
the second task we did was the repetition game. The point of it was that your simply batting responses back and forth to your partner and actor, and sometimes the tension could build or it could end up a good atmosphere, but it doesn't mean that the actors hate each other really, its just reacting in the moment. For example, it started of with the demonstration from the two broken hearted youth members. One noticed the other had blue shoes and played on that. So one would say "you're wearing blue shoes" the others response, " I'm wearing blue shoes" then the other may notice the other one laughs and the mood switches and so on. The point of the exercise is that your meant to play off the other actors reactions and constantly analysing for change in their behaviour because that's what happens in real life, to act truthfully then that needs to happen.

The next exercise was an improv technique in partners. so my partner was Danielle, our plot was that she was the mother and I had come home later than what she had told me to be. The point of this was that there had to be problem with the other actor. I thought it went quite successful and that we played off each others reactions really well and stayed true to the moment.

I thought todays session was very useful in terms of gaining knowledge about direction and acting and I feel that that I leant a lot from it and I'm looking forward to working with them again.