Single - "He's Talking" Scripted Piece - Blog 1 - 11/09/15

Today was the first time we'd done scripted work together. We were put into three groups (Charlie, Cel and James/ Lorna, Ollie Marshall and Rhiannon/ Ollie Kelly, Kat and I) and we were each given a script. Our group got an extract from the play, "He's Talking." Of course Kat got the only female part of Tanya and Ollie and I randomly picked our characters. I was Miles, Tanya's partner and Ollie was Luke, Miles' friend who bombed racist nations. This extract explains the situation and relationships between these three characters in this part of the play.

My group

In order to work out what we were going to do in regards to movement and speech, we read the script in our roles so that we understand our character's motives and the plot itself. After reading it, we created the set with a few chairs and performed it. Our first run through was very rough and lacked a great deal of movement but after giving each other tips and running through it three more times our piece was very active, captivating and funny where it should be. We then performed our piece to the rest of the class including a few Year 13's and we feel we performed it very well!

If we were to redo this piece, there's only one thing we could improve on: knowing all of the lines so that we could perform it without scripts!