Warm up: Exercise 8 & 9
In our final rehearsal before the performance, we took the opportunity to change things up with our scene and do a text defamiliarisation exercise, as we were worried about over-rehearsing our scene in the same fashion to the point of it losing energy. My partner and I enter the scene having just returned from a walk in the garden of the estate. We decided to recreate this walk before attempting to run our scene again. We left the site and wondered the surrounding area, staying in character despite some odd looks from passers by, and deduced some interesting information about our characters, including a noticeable shift in our relationship. Some of the given circumstances I had brought into this exercise was that we were discussing a book we were studying, that Masha is not engaging well to our studies and that I am passionate in what I teach. This led to our discussion becoming heated at times as we clashed over our contradicting opinions of literature and the book, showing that Masha and Medvedenko are more opposed to each other than it at first seemed. This was beneficial as when it came to running the scene it flowed more naturally than ever before because it gave real motive behind my opening line, meaning the energy was visible right from the beginning of the scene, something we were having difficulty with at first.
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