Today we split into two groups, to build up two different approaches to our idea / maximize productivity. I worked with James and Rob, they ended up discussing one of the lazzi's that would work well between their characters, whilst I thought of one possible scene that we could start working on, a scene set in a court room, perhaps shown at the end of our piece as it would reveal the murderer and their punishment (in this case promotion, as nobody likes Harlequin and are glad when he is gone) whilst showing the hierarchy of the characters at the same time.
After sharing my idea with my group, we developed it so that rather than killing off Harlequin, we would kill Magnifico, as if we kill any of the characters that we are playing, then they will be unable to perform. As Pantalone is the character with the most authority, we have decided that he shall play the role of the judge in this scene. We are going to have The Doctor represent the jury as he is the character who is second highest in the hierarchy. Columbina aka myself will be the lawyer of Zanni and Il Capitano will be the lawyer of Brighella. We want Harlequin to be sat within the audience, as a witness who will start the comedy in our piece by winding up all of the other characters, and trying to break the unusual seriousness of the characters. We shared our idea with the other group and we began working on it. The Judge / Pantalone / Lewis stood centre stage with me, Columbina / Zannis lawyer stood to his left, and I had Zanni / James to my left. To the right of Lewis, stood the jury / The Doctor / Oliver, to his right stood Il Capitano / Brighellas lawyer / Rob and to his right, Brighella / Lorna. The witness / Harlequin / Charlie will be opposite Lewis in the audience. We worked through the scene,and produced a strong, funny opening scene of when Harlequin keeps changing his mind on who he saw do it, but after this we found that it was very flat and dull. James and Lewis have the movements of their characters down, but the rest of us had come out of touch with how we had previously moved, so we done an exercise to get into character. This involved us walking about out space, moving as our characters and making the noises that our character would make / speaking in gromalot, we then would give instructions to each-other, whilst walking past that would slightly alter our movements to better fit our characters. We went over what we had already produced for this scene but found that it was still flat, we decided that we will not use this scene and ended the lesson by devising short lazzis. We got into groups that divided our characters off into who they would most likely be interacting with. Oliver / The Doctor and Lewis / Pantalone worked together, Lorna / Brighella, Rob / Il Capitano and Charlie / Harlequin worked together and James / 1st Actor and I / 1st Actress worked together. Mine and James lazzi involved myself and James walking along side each-other, with a space between us which represented a wall that is parting us (I thought of this idea for our lazzi as 1st Actor and 1st Actress are similar to Romeo and Juliet in the sense that they are hopelessly infatuated with each-other), we are both making huffing and puffing and groaning sounds to show the agony of our separation. I then stop, and lean over this wall, feeling very sorry for myself, but then I notice the 1st Actor, he also notices me and we both run backwards a little so that we can start to catch and make bigger the kisses that we are blowing to each-other. It starts of as a normal blow of a kiss, which James catches, makes bigger and sends back to me, the 'kiss' increases in size until we end the scene with me sending the kiss back on a bow and arrow, which hits the 1st Actor in the head. We end our scene with me running to the wall (whilst using gromalot to represent panic/concern), and James on the floor (whilst he used gromalot to represent that he is in pain). We will show what we have devised next lesson.
The other group had thought of a possible opening scene for our piece, which we are going to try next lesson, the scene will start with Brighella finding Harlequins body, then each character would be called out onto the stage to be cast as the guilty one, this scene would show aimless, comical back and forth blaming from one character to another.
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