Brecht - Rob Alexander

19/09/14


In Today's lesson with rob we began the session with the normal warm up exercises such as the vowel sounds "ooo ohh oree and aaa arrr eeee" then onto pronounciation n letters "aaa ccc gg ddd ttt lll mmm ppp" we then warme p our sinal cowrd by rolling to the floor slowly and doing small bounces to streatch the muscles whilst breathing softly and letting out the sound 'uh' we then came to the board and dome some tongue twisters my tongue twister was "Plymouth sleuths Thwart Luther's Slithering" Rob said i need to practice more on my Th's espcially on the word 'Thwart'.

We then was told to Read our monolgues i had a monoluge prepared from ages ago the play its from is called "I ate the Divorvce Papers" ive had mixed feedback on this piece in the past but enjoy performing it, it was abit rough around the edges as i had'nt practiced it but decided to throw myself in the deep end, my feedback was to play it less comical, to really relate to the character (stanislavski method, imagining if it was my mums ring being taken away from me and how emotionally distraught i would be) Rob then called up connor to sit infornt of me to be the imaginary person i was talking to, even though i played the more sentimental character i still gained laughs, i need to work on how to structure the scene more and really focus on being in denial that my husband is gonna divorce me until the last sentences when the peny finally drops.
Rob then pulled up a youtube clip on the classic 'Dirty Den' scene with Angie when he hands her a divorce paper after he finds out she was lying about dying and how indenial angie was in the begining can help me link this character into my own.

After lunch we was given our script 'One big family' written by Brecht. my secne is called the black shoes, after first reading it i'm not particulallly feeling it much i feel its very stanislavski like with the whole mother not wanting her daughter to attend the camp, but hidden emotion abut it as she doesn't actuall say this she claims she has o money (pfennins) I'm slightly nervous that im ot going to get the Brecht feel on this play as i feel that the metod/language its written like is very stanislavski.