Once we had understood our character a bit more we did some forum theatre. This is an old style of theatre where the audience could question the actor which may challenge or suggest improvements. We used this in our rehearsal so that we could learn from each other and gain feedback and improve our performance through other members of the class.
When it was my turn to perform I did Rosie's monologue from the play 'My Mother Said I Never Should.' I did this because it was the one that was finding the most challenging due to the age of the character.
After I performed it I was given a series of praise such as, they liked how I had mapped the space out and was referring behind me when I was talking about my Mother showing where she would be positioned if she was on stage. The main thing I got out of the forum theatre was a challenge from Sophie who said 'I would like to know more about your relationship with your dolly.'
This really got me thinking about how the dolly is actually quite important to in my monologue as I was meant to be talking to it. This piece of reflection inspired me to thing about how I could bring this dolly to life. It made me think about how I could practice to hold it, react to it and speak to it and from this I decided that when I rehearsed this monologue I would use a real dolly so I could get a feel for exactly how it would be held and spoken to.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_theatre
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