In this blog I will be talking about the play and how certain scenes affect my character, I will also be talking about bits and pieces of the rehearsals and the skills I need to develop on and how i have tried to work on the problems.
Scene 1:
My scene objective in scene 1 is "to get to know Lilly" Lilly is the new girl and William, my character, has taken a liking to her and so I play him as if he is an excited puppy, quick firing questions and compliments, as well as being the first to introduce everyone to her and from time to time he tries to by funny by making jokes among-st the conversations, or saying knowledgeable things to make himself look smart in-front of Lilly. He also is very protective of her, by interrupting a conversation between Lilly and Nicholas as William feels threatened by how well they are getting on, and William sticks up for Lilly towards the end of the scene. But throughout this scene he is always trying to prove he is helpful as he is always trying to help Lilly. Later in the rehearsal stage we looked at the characters in the scene and what we see them as, kind of like objects, at the beginning William sees Lilly as a rare object and he acts like a excited puppy, but speaks to her as if she is delicate. He sees Bennett as an elastic band its fun to play with but when it snaps it hurts, he sees Nicholas as a tool its helpful, he feels that introducing him to Lilly will help William to make conversation with Lilly, he sees Tanya as a hurdle he has to get over, as she comes in and interrupts what he is saying to Lilly and this irritates him, and he sees Chadwick as a comfort blanket as he feels that Chadwick understands him.
Scene 2:
For scene two I have two scene objectives, but they both intertwine with one another. One of them is "to open up to Lilly," in this scene he tells Lilly a few things about himself and even lies about some things he says, but this is all to gain Lilly's sympathy. My second objective is "to ask Lilly out" I use this objective to help with my blocking and the way I say the lines, a play him almost like a nervous child who really wants to say something but he cant, this fits with the lines as he does tend to ramble on a lot especially when Lilly looks at him.
Scene 3:
Scene three William says he has lost 100 pounds, we decided that he was lying about this as well, just like when younger people ask someone out and when they are rejected they act out so that the other person can see them, basically getting more attention. So scene 3's objective is "to gain sympathy" or "to be the center of attention" I say this because even though he hardly speaks in this scene, he wants attention from Lilly and later lies to Chadwick about how much money he will inherit so he can get more attention.
Scene 4:
Scene 4 is when William becomes very distant from his friends his thoughts are very scattered and this makes it difficult to choose an objective, by this point William knows Lilly doesn't love him, Lloyd has had a heart attack, and now Bennett has mocked William and his dead brother. This is the predominant scene where William has snapped this is the scene that changes his through line completely.
Scene 5:
William's objective in this scene is "to warn Lilly" with everything that's happened William latches onto the only thing that makes him "happy" he tells Lilly to meet him, telling her what's going on with him, at this point i think he knows he is going to kill his friends. But as a class we did wonder if William does kill Lilly as in scene 6 he says that Lilly is dead, then says she is actually in a lot of trouble.
Scene 6:
His objective in this scene is "to kill everyone", I play him quite distant from reality as if he thinks its just a game, but there are points where anger comes through, but by the end of the scene he is completely different than he was at the beginning. in this scene we do not know what happened to Lilly the night before, and so we looked through the text and found that he says she is dead at the end, and in one part he repeats the word rape, so we came to a conclusion that he had raped her and killed her as she isn't even mentioned by the doctor in scene 7 when William asks how Tanya is? Now although this may not be what actually happened to Lilly it gives me something to bounce off whenever he mentions Lilly in this scene.
Scene 7:
Throughout scene 7 we looked at the fact that most people who have committed a crime and are caught, feel that the only thing the now have is their crime, so they talk about it a lot and consider themselves celebrity's. So the way I play William in scene 7 is that he is looking for a reaction from Dr Rachel Harvey, and when he doesn't get one he acts out in order to get one e.g. there is a part where William asks "does it make you sick what I did?" he doesn't get a reaction from Dr Harvey and so repeats it again, but firmer when he gets an answer he immediately changes the subject
TO BE COMPLETED
Through out the blocking stage of rehearsals, I have been finding it difficult to understand how to play William in each scene, you see he isn't played exactly the same through the play he changes how he feels in each scene. To work on this I have been reading the play more and more in order to understand his lines as well as finding certain bits of subtext withing lines or scenes. However another problem picked up in class by Adam is that i play William on a level for each scene, we didn't know whether this was because i was reading the lines, but to make sure this doesn't happen i have been learning my lines and reading them in different ways until if feel comfortable.
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