On last Wednesday's Acting Class, we were with S-Came and M-Camp, we continued rehearsing our pieces/scenes/backstories in our latest project: Love & Information by Caryl Churchill.
Favour Dantes wasn't present
JP Caiceda, Pedro Small and Mya Jarret were present - Virtual, Stone and Lab.
I spent an all-nighter trying to learn my lines for Virtual and working on the setting and the blocking for Stone. Mya and I rehearse Lab for the first time after reading it and I used my acting skills to make a practically physical assumption on how my character has to be played. I made my character an almost-insane, evil-looking scientist who does animal testing for medicinal purposes but also for fun.
After JP and I performed the improvisation scene, two weeks ago, we decided to make that our backstory and we set Virtual - outside at the bus stop, waiting for the bus to go to school. I was able to learn lines of by heart. My character in Virtual, after finding out that JP's character is romantically love with something mechanically functional piece of machinery, my character becomes completely hysterical, crazy, shocked but helpful at the same time because if you read my lines in the script and contextualise them, you'll find out that he's not wrong.
For Stone, Pedro and I, we were doing pretty well with our scene. M-Camp was really impressed with our performance. But then, Ben Mills started hot-seating people and he started with us and eventually, we realised that interpreting as we go along with it is literally making us hit rock bottom. So, still we have a lot of work to do. My character in Stone, he's quite adventurous, daring, quite uptight, naïve, selfish, hilarious but careless at the same time. Every one has a good side and a bad side. Inner demons. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Personifying the lesser of two evils. The setting and the blocking is perfect but we need a backstory.
For God's Voice and God, we never got to rehearse because most of the time, she's never here. But I did some character analysis on mine. I've read the scenes fused together many times and I think that my character is extremely interested. Journalistic. Probably an agnostic because he's asking questions about what Favour's character has experienced.
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