Exercise Evaluation
Moody Objects
The
class walked around the room in a normal manner until the teacher called out a
number. When this was called we
had to get into groups of this number.
Then the teacher would call out an object and an emotion. For example ‘5’ and ‘an angry
motorbike.’ Through facial
expressions and physicality we had to create this object and try and portray
the emotion as well. This exercise
helps to develop something that Brecht believed strongly in. He believed that the audience shouldn’t
get to involved in the play, and they should at all times remember that they
are watching a play. I found this
exercise very interesting, and I believe it helped further my knowledge of
Brecht’s dramatic ideologies. It
helped me to grasp the ideas of ‘Verfremdungseffekt’ and I started to
understand why he wanted there to be specific moments of alienation, I believe
that it is used almost as a reality check. This is because if people go to the theatre they normally go
to escape the normal world, however Brecht had very strong political
ideologies, and he wanted people to never lose sight of the truth.
Exercise Evaluation
Daily tasks
I
found this exercise very interesting, as I believe it allows an actor to
explore the amount of information needed for a play to capture an audiences
mind. This exercise consisted of
miming daily tasks, as simple as making a sandwich, and performs this to the
audience. The first time we did
this with narration, and then performed it again with no narration. From what I observed when it is silent
the audience question it, however if it is narrated the audience find the plot
simple to understand. This lesson
also taught us that Brecht wanted the plot to be understood by everyone, and
therefore the Brechtian choice would have been to narrate.
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