Improv and Ensemble: Week 3

Todays session was very good as we had, with Griff's help developed, not only a structure for the play, but the mentality needed for the play. I think it would be more realistic and interesting to watch if you, as an audience member, can see the characters involved actual have a heated debate. For about 10 minutes, Griff let us continue to debate once one had naturally broke out and encouraged those who were sitting and watching and when it seemed to come to a natural end he noted how there were several arguments happening that lasted for that amount of time, and if we were to script and structure it with more development, the Agit-Prop play would be very promising. On the white board in the red room, Griff helped develop a simple structure that the play could take on. We then created characters that we will perform as potentially in the play. Mine is a parent in a stable financial state whose daughter failed to enter university due to budget cuts in her course, while she recieved excellent A-Level results. My character would support the right-wing Tory Party and question the left-wing's free uni policy. I'm happy with my character as I created it on a real life friend of mine who was told after being accepted that she could not go to the uni due to budget cuts, and that the political beliefs of my character are very much different to mine, making them a generally different person than me and I look forward to developing the character further to understand what they do and do not agree with politically. I was pleased with how much progress we made today in terms of developing the play and the next rehearsal will focus on actually running through the piece sticking to the arguements, characters and structure that we have been working on over the past few weeks.