Notes from Monday 28th Lesson

Notes from Monday 28^th Lesson

Toby’s Memory

·         Toby guides audience around the memory

·         He is narrating while he is explaining his emotions to the audience

·         Two other actors are acting out the memory, following directions

·         Regular memory? Or over exaggerated romantic memory?

·         People acting change the way that they are performing

·         We then decided that we cannot act out two versions of this memory, because we only have Toby’s perspective of the memory, so we couldn’t do it from the girls point of view, or an outsiders point of view as we don’t have them.

Parts we played –

·         Ria – The Girlfriend

·         Rory – Toby

·         Toby – Narrator and Director

·         Brittany and Shaune – Introduce the piece.

Ria and Rory act out the scene, Toby is explaining to her how he wants the scene to be acted, but the actors keep on getting it wrong, so Toby has to keep stopping them and re- directing them to do it again and differently…. The actors keep on getting it wrong, so he eventually pushes Rory out of the scene and finishes it himself the way he wanted it acted out in the first place!

Collective Memory

·         Ria

·         Brittany

·         Toby

·         Rory

·         Tom

We began by coming into the room and telling our audience that we are all ‘Single memories’ but together, we are a ‘collective memory’

We asked… Where were you on September 11^th 2007?

This is a collective memory for a huge amount of people, in many countries, as the events of this day had an effect on many people, in many ways and most people remember where they were when they heard the news of this event…

We then moved on to a collective memory, of just our class… We took the group back to our first day of uni, where we were all sitting in Studio 8, waiting for Lisa to come to the room…

Most of us remembered where abouts we were sitting, and we all very much remembered how we felt on this day… and simple line like Tom saying ‘Soooo’ or ‘So, you’re an electrician’, made us all remember the day even more vividly,  because we were then all remembered that exact moment…. Having a Collective memory.

Ria :)