On Monday we started blocking Orestes 1's (Me) scene, it was a scene where the chorus have basically pushed him to the edge, we have put the chorus around Orestes at the beginning, but with their backs turned from him, each section of the chorus turn round on different lines, until eventually they are being physical with him pulling him and pushing him about. I thought that this was effective as it felt like I couldn't get away, and if you put that with the lines they were saying then it puts it in context that Orestes cannot escape what he is about to do. The chorus then sit in front of Orestes as if they were at a conference, and then Orestes is taken by two chorus members who clean him up and help him onto a block where he then says a monologue about his mother, this is when you start to see his hatred towards his mother, in this section of the scene I felt in power as if everyone was listening to me, but deep down I knew they were listening because its what they wanted to hear. Eventually Orestes starts to ask the chorus questions as they all crowed round with microphones as if they are getting their juicy story that they want to hear.
In our voice session we looked at the animals we felt that our characters were like, and then pretended to be the animal moving around the room in ways such as, being hunted, hunting and eating. We then eventually over a slow period turned into out character using aspects of the animals, I chose a mouse at first, as they hide and are small and the scene I play Orestes in, he is trying to hide from everyone as he shouldn't be home as he was exiled by Clytemnestra. I also chose a lone wolf as Orestes feels as if he is on his own and he keeps asking for the gods to help him as he goes through this alone. My final animal was a snake, now this was from a metaphor he talks about, the fact he is the snake that bites into his mothers breast at the end of Orestes 1's scenes going into Orestes 2. I think this exercise helped us all because it took us out of the normal so we are now more confident with being weird around each other and also it helped us move away from being us when playing the characters we can now move like a different person.
On Wednesday we looked at more chorus workshops, we looked at lines again and used freeze frames for them which we then slowly put together and moved into each of them, this gave us more ideas for the chorus's lines as they have very long sections to fill with movements. We also came in, in our chorus outfits, the guys wore shirts and ties, and most of the girls wore dresses, I thought this helped me come out of the mind of Connor, as I don't wear formal clothes, and then jump straight into a different person's shoes.
Thursday we ran through act 1, and then blocked the last scene in the piece, as a group we had decided to have a line of chairs and then work in twos and threes, splitting the lines between us and doing movements with the lines, me and Rae helped make sure that each bit of dialogue and movement connected to the group after each group. I think this was nice as it gave us a chance to explore creative ideas and it was great to work as a collective together without being directed.
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