On Monday I was introduced to Stanislavski’s ten points system.
In order to feel relaxed and neutral we started with a practical warm up; ty chi, the stroking of the bear breathing counts of 6.
A vocal warm up followed. After feeling a little more relaxed we lied on the ground, closed eyes, concentrating on each part of the body, starting with our feet and working upwards we tensed each part separately accompanying with breathing counts of 6.
Then we followed with a concentration exercise, counting the sounds outside the room for at least one minute; bringing our concentration back into the room we counted the sounds within our space.
Raising to a neutral standing position our next steps towards the ten points introduced us to an exercise; emotive words- working with imagination and feeling, we focused with the words, revenge, love and fear.
We continued with a silent ‘bad news letter’ exercise, observing each other through performances allowed us to draw up a conclusion as to what the letter was about.
In pairs we improvised and worked on dialogue for a farewell situation. Each group performed it to the class, we were not allowed to use the dialogue within our performance, the challenge was to be as natural as possible, by using eye contact and complete focus throughout.
We finished our day with some script reading, my group was set to discover Ibsen’s, A Dolls House, act three. Playing Mrs.Linde seemed intense through out this scene.
I came to an understanding of the fourth wall and how naturalistic plays would never break the forth wall, to interact with the audience would defeat the whole idea of naturalism.
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