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Blood wedding Act 3 Scene 1 

In the exercise today I learnt that you have understand and explain your character and their meaning and other characters and their meaning's to the play, to your self  and to your group members. This gives you the possibility to empathise with your character and the other characters. 

I was not given clear directions and instructions on what to do for the exercise. My group's self chosen director was a monomaniac and didn't allow other people to contribute their ideas to the performance. Now that solely is not a justification to why our performance was a catastrophe because I was also to blame. I did not contribute enough ideas to the group and I had not substantially learnt my lines, movements and ques. In consequence I was not able to connect with my character and other characters, meaning that there would have been small amount of strength of belief in my character. 

Although there is a silver lining. From my failure I realised that what I needed to do to improve mine and the group's performance. I learned that it was imperative to learn my lines, movements and ques. I could therefore understand my character and other characters meaning. Another component that I learned was to contribute your idea's even if you are being dictated. I should have incorporated and contributed my ideas into the performance. 

Driven to entertain the suspicion that I were to include the components that I learned from my failures, my performance and the group's performance would have been much improved and there would have been a strong a belief in our characters and their meanings.

Companies

Small sized companies- Arcola Theatre

Arcola is one of London's leading of-West End theatres. Locally and internationally engaged and minded. Arcola stages a huge diverse programme of plays, operas and musicals. World-class productions from leading artists appear alongside cutting-edge work from the most exciting emerging companies. Arcola delivers one of London’s most extensive community engagement programmes, creating over 5000 opportunities every year. By providing research and development space to diverse artists, Arcola champions theatre that’s more engaging and representative. Each year Arcola presents 60 events and productions and held of them involve new plays and include new talent from young companies. In 2013/14 a third of the plays were by ethnically diverse artists and two thirds had woman at the helm as writers directors and producers. Every year Arcola theatre provides 28 weeks worth of free rehearsal, showcasing and office space to ethnically diverse characters. Arcola Theatre is run by Arcola Theatre Production Company, a charity registered in England and Wales. Arcola is a founding member of Hackney Theatre Partnership, a member of OffWestEnd.com, and a member of the London Hub of Sustained Theatre which is part of the National Sustained Theatre network. Arcola Theatre supports a wide range of companies and initiatives across London. Not Associate Companies in the traditional sense, these partnerships are with organisations and projects that share Arcola’s passion to increase access to high quality arts. Each partnership is unique.

Their current Associate Companies are:
* Immediate Theatre
* National Youth Theatre : Playing Up Programme
* London Hub
* Basement Orchestra
* Unfinished Histories

Mid sized companies- Globe theatre

Founded by the pioneering American actor and director Sam Wanamaker, Shakespeare's Globe is a unique international resource dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's work and the playhouse for which he wrote, through the connected means of performance and education. Together, the Globe Theatre, Globe Exhibition & Tour and Globe Education seek to further the experience and international understanding of Shakespeare in performance.

Since the Globe Theatre reconstruction opened for performances in 1997, Shakespeare's Globe has welcomed visitors from all over the world to take part in workshops, lectures and staged readings; to visit the exhibition and tour the Globe Theatre, and to watch productions, ranging from original practices to world premières of new writing and the first play by a woman ever to be performed here. Since the building of the new Sacker Studios, Globe

Education have continued their ever expanding programme of public events, school and university courses and work with the Southwark Community.


Big sized company- Barbican Theatre

The Barbican Theatre is a dynamic charity started in 1980 with young people and the development of creative skills at the heart of all that they do. Their ambition has been to raise the standard of dance and theatre performance being produced by, with and for young people. They seek to challenge what traditional notions of theatre and dance are and liberate the imagination of young people to create fresh and exciting work that comes from new and unusual voices - voices that are often unheard. They challenge our young people to work hard at their craft and develop creative and social skills which enhance their learning, resilience and determination to succeed in whatever career path they choose.

My Jouney 

I am going to analise my journey from start to finish. There will be three different paragraphs on how I started to research my character with exercises and different texts which relate to the dolls house, the moment when I felt most in tune with my character and what exercise helped me most and why and finally how these exercises and research of different texts helped me perform my scene from the dolls house.  

When I started the dolls house I chose the character Krogstad. I chose the character Krogstad because I have done rolls as the antagonist before. For example In the play The Cage birds I was the character Thump and in The glass Menagerie I was Tom Wingfield. Therefore I thought that with my previous experience of being the antagonist I would chose Krogstad. I then studied other texts which have similar characters and context. My three other plays were metamorphosis, The Glass menagerie and An inspector calls. I rejected the Glass menagerie because, although it had the same type of antagonist, Tom Wingfield, it did not have the same context. I rejected the play Metamorphosis as well because, although it had the same context and it had a male antagonist and the same patriarchal society it was to abstract with whole Greggor Sampsa turning into a beetle. I therefore went with the play An inspector calls. It was set in the very early 19th century, it has the patriarchal society and a male antagonist. The male antagonist is Mr. Goole. This character is the one who causes the commotion in the first place. without him there would not be the play. This is the same with Krogstad. I therefore based some of my characteristics around the character of Mr Goole. The exercises that were most important to my progress into understanding and learning Krogstad were super objective where we had to find the super objectives for our character, Leading with where we had to lead with a specific part of the body and what we thought our character would lead with and the final one was the opera house. This was when we were our characters and we had to attend an imaginary opera performance.  

I believe that the most important and most successful one where I felt most in tune with my character Krogstad was the opera house activity. It helped me because we had to think of the context was and how people would walk, talk and act like. But we had to act as though we were our character in the opera house. I walked into the opera house quietly, back up straight, leading with my chest and sat behind the women. all of this was because you couldn’t sit next to a single or married woman if you are married because it would be deemed as rude. I had to walk quietly because the opera was about to start and I didn’t want to disturb anyone. I also had to walk with my back straight and leading with chest because I cared about how looked in front of the higher class and didn’t want to have a bad posture. This was very crucial to my character because Krogstad was middle class aspiring to be higher class. All of these factors helped me mechanically get into role. In this activity I believe that this was the moment I became my character emotionally and mechanically. I wanted to go to the opera because It was what higher class people did and it was a chance for me to meet higher class people therefore leading me into getting a better job, supplying myself and my children. The super objective was the second most important into helping me understand and learn Krogstad. This was because It gave me motives throughout the play. This then allowed me the ability to deliver each line and each movement with a meaning. Then as a result from that activity I learnt how Krogstad would have moved, talked and acted through out the play. A down side to this activity was that it did not teach us about the context of the play which I believe is a huge point not worth missing out because that gives you a huge boost on how the rest of the world around you acted. The third and final activity which contributed the least out of these three was the leading with character. I believe that this was least contributing and helpful because It didn’t get me into my role emotionally. It only taught us how to get into our role mechanically. For a successful activity I believe that it needs to get into my role mechanically and emotionally.  

I used the opera technique in my performance. Before the I performed it researched what was the situation I was getting into as the character and what I should walk, talk and act like. Since it was a woman I was seeing I was immediately at a higher status then her because in this it was a very patriarchal society, where the man is in charge. But the woman I was seeing , Ms Linde, was the woman who left me for a richer man and is taking my job. This then gave me information on how I should behave round her. I then used this in performance. I walked very strongly with each step being very powerful to show that I was in charge and talked in a deep voice to show hidden anger. I lead with my chest through out it but the parts where I felt venerable such "I had to break with you" I lead with my shoulders. I Used super objectives through out the whole of my performance. Each line was given a motive and each movement was given a meaning such as "and you did this for money" I slammed my hands down on to the table and stood up to show the anger I had to situation.  

29th September performing arts 

In the discovery exercise we had to forget everything we knew and start fresh. This means I had to learn how to walk, talk and move. I started with my back on the floor and was looking around with just my eyes. I then moved my head to the left and could see more. This movement was incredibly strange because I had never moved before. I then started to move my limbs and learnt how to move my weight in such a way that I could roll across the floor. I then started to interact with other objects and discovering noises for the first. Then I had to int5eract with other people in the room which at first was very daunting since I did know what the other people would do. Once I started to interact more with these other characters I became more confident in my speech and movement. This activity was very interesting because it was very challenging at first because it was socially awkward. But after about 5 mins in to the activity it becomes very real. the Proxemics between people at first were very distant because we were nervous of what other would do. But as it went on were all became closer showing that we weren't as nervous. At the beginning the speed, pace and rhythm of body movements and language were very slow but as time went on them three factors started to increase in  speed.  

We were then given another activity that we were a mental patient in a mental institution. We were given a "magic if" because there was no objective so we had to react to the actions around us. I was a scitsernic patient with three voices in my head. I used speed, pace and rhythm of body language and language to represent different voices in my head. The three voices were anger, sorrow and truth. Half way through I decided upon an objective for each voice in my head. This was so I could get further in to character and understand what the voices in side my head wanted. Objective for anger was to  stay in solitude, for sorrow it was to find where I drew a picture of a garden and for truth it was to tell myself that I murdered and buried my own mum.  

Cake and Word Day.  

Anencaphalus- The man had a an anencaphalus at an early age. 

Anopisthograph- The text was an anopisthograph. 

Blandiloquent- The woman had a very blandiloquent manner towards the gentleman. 

Couthy- "oh he was such a couthy" said Agatha as the general walked away.  

Exsibilation- before the conductor turned around to see that the audience was in fact clapping and cheering, he thought there was an exsibilation from the audience.  

Floccinaucinihilipilification- Humans are quick to partake in the floccinaucinihilipilification process. 

Hadeharia- Religious leaders hadeharia to strike fear into people so that they may abide by their laws.  

Infandous- "voldermort"! Suddenly there is a exsibilation from the crowd. Harry looks at ron and hermione for an answer for why they hissed. Hermione drags harry to the side and whispers in to Harry's ear " His name is infanduos".  

Imtemperate- Gluttony is a form of imtempurate  

Jingoistic- The American republican was a jingoistic demagogue – Donald Trump  

Jocular- He pranced around the room in a jocular fashion.  

milquetoast - For his size and height I thought he would have been a milquetoast but it was quite the opposite.  

Nihilist- Some Christians are under the misconception, from the far right fox news company, that Christopher Hitchens was a nihilist but in fact he was an atheist.  

oniomania- I soon as walked in through the large glass doors and into the atrium I looked around and a sudden strong impulse of oniomania.  

Splendiferous - My Christmas was splendiferous.  

Vacuous- "can you not get into your vacuous mind that I want to be left alone" shouted the young precious boy to the intrusive teacher.  

Abhorrent- The man utterly abhorrent  

Ad Hominem- Donald trump created controversy and ad hominem when he stated that Mexico is deliberately sending people over, across the border, to ruin and sabotage the united states of America.