Pillowman - Lesson 12 - 08/01/2016

Today was the first lesson we have had since before Christmas. As we have had a few weeks off we have had time to learn our lines and be able to get them sorted so that when we come back we are able to focus more on what we are doing practically and not have our scripts weighing us down. I think the rehearsal ran rather smoothly however it was a bit of a challenge to learn most of the lines and there was a few points in which we got muddled up and maybe skipped ahead. Also another thing that I found rather challenging is that I was trying to find ways in which I could play Ariel as this mysterious character (as in you don’t know when he’s going to slip). So as a sort of task, our teacher asked myself and Dom who is also playing Ariel in his group to act out our monologue from scene 3 and to watch how each of us perform it. When watching Dom, he was playing Ariel as a more chilled out character and more of a character that tries to get in your head. Whereas I was playing it as if I was going to really hurt Katurian and I really wanted to threaten him and make him know what was going to happen to him. A comment that I received was that I needed to play it a bit more like Dom however still have my own twist to it (basically, I needed to make him a bit more chilled out).