Drama homework- Liberty
During our drama lesson, we started off in minuscule group doing a collective role were we had to choose two lines from our play which showcased a male or female character. In my case, I was in a group with three people were we decided to incorporate two lines which were "I'm never in a hurry, that's how I get ahead and I understand woman, go along. We choose these lines because: they showcase masculine supremacy, and demonstrate the Male characteristics within the play. We decided to add gesture, movement and experimented with tone to enhance our voices as a unit. For the gesture, we started of standing sideways one-by-one to make ourselves look powerful and have more authority. furthermore, we used hand gestures such as: flicking our wrists towards the audience  to show that "we are never in a hurry" as that gesture could connote a lack of interest.
 Moreover, we also had another gesture when we said "go along"  which was swaying  our arms at the same time sideways. This was used to show that the character desperately wanted this person to "go along". The movement we used was moving back and forth once in unison. The stopping of our feats made us look superior and intimidating. Therefore, adding the stopping as well as the movement up and down made us seem much more macho  and demonstrated that the male people we were trying to represent are dominant and controlling within this play.
When we where experimenting with tone, we established that we had to say the words with a sense of purpose. In order to pull this off, we said it slower and with more clarity.  Unfortunately, we struggled with saying it all together which made it tricky to pull that off effectively. The reason why we did this exercise was to help us acknowledge that we could speak in unison and enhance the character in a powerful way. We also did this to enable us to understand the character better as doing it with various people allows us to witness the character from different prospective.
Afterwards, we created three tableaux which revealed the stories of a specific scene. I was working with another group due to the fact that my group partner wasn't in. However, they had a character which was quiet similar to my character. The first tableaux was the young woman sitting down whilst the doctor was trying to examine her pulse. The young woman was looking down which made her seem distraught and she was in a bed to showcase that she was ill. The second tableaux illustrated different levels and facial expression. It did this as: the young woman was sitting down and shading her face slightly to show that she was disgusted by us and ill, the doctor looked quite professional and profound. Also, the nurse was  crouching a little and  I had a ginormous smile which made me look like a joker of a husband. I was also crouching but was slightly higher than the nurse which emphasised my joker personality. Whilst,I was giving the nurse the flowers.
The tableaux I liked the most was from prosecution where the juries was staring sternly at the person they were questioning. This included proxemics  as the woman was being closely guarded from both sides which made her feel trapped. Consequently, from the person they were questioning she put a quiet intense face which made her looked pressured and venerable. The purpose of these tableaux was to demonstrate what was going on within a scene through mere still pictures.