Today we focused on comedic scenes and had Brian McManimon direct as well. After playing psychiatrist, party quirks, and screaming toes, we performed a scene from Stranger Things. Then we sang the Cup Song and Waving Through a Window with two parts and harmonies.
For our dance period, we practiced basics and then worked on Non-Stop.
After lunch we worked with our guest teacher Manimon. Some things we learned were:
-To find blocking organically
-The character's age matters
-To use the space and setting
-Playing the same scene comedic and dramatic
-The angles you face onstage: presentational, profile, quarter, and three-quarter
-Character relationships
-Comedy can be over the top or it can be played straight with the right timing
-Every scene has an arc for every character
-What does the character want, do they get it
-Tone shifts in scenes
-Keeping the tempo in scenes
-To use height and levels
-Physicality
-Responding to direction
-Which character in the scene cares more
-What does your character’s "doing nothing" look like
-To reflect on how a scene felt