We started our lesson today by doing a focus exercise which consists of us to have our eyes closed and simply count, as a group to 20. I say simply, but it often does take a long time for us to do this, we then done a quick warm up and began with our work. At first, we showed the lazzis that we had created at the end of our last lesson. Me and James received good feedback of our work as it was simple but through having a good understanding of our characters, we managed to make our lazzi entertaining and interesting. I thought that Lorna, Rob and Charlies lazzi worked well as you could tell that they all have a great understanding of their characters, Lorna made sure that she had a displeased look on her face, and was showing her frustration towards the other characters at all times. Rob ensured that every so often his character would go off on a tangent of his sword fighting and constantly be trying to tell a story of his bravery (which doesn't actually exist) and Charlie showed that he was constantly hungry by repeating a clever move in which he would show himself unlocking his stomach, opening it up, noticing that it is empty and showing the other characters, for sympathy and food. Lewis' and Oliver's lazzi consisted of them discussing ways in which they could kill harlequin, they didn't use any gromalot but there stances and walks channeled their characters well, the only improvement would have been if there lazzi was made longer, perhaps by The Doctor wandering into more thoughts, rambling about them as he usually does and perhaps Panatalone getting bored and becoming angry with him as when Pantalone is displeased it reminds us that he is the character with the most authority.
We then started to work on our opening scene, the other group had figured out most of this scene, but when discussing as a class, we made some changes and our opening scene is as follows;
-Our piece starts with Harlequins lifeless body laying centre stage.
-Brighella then enters, she thinks that he is asleep and try to wake him up, when he doesn't do so, she calls on The Doctor.
-The Doctor enters and confirms that Harlequin is dead,
-Pantalone enters next and upon discovering that Harlequin is dead, he blames Brighella.
-Brighella objects and blames Il Capitano.
-Il Capitano enters, and explains a long story of one of his many fights with the murdered, who he says is Columbina.
-Columbina then enters and flirts with the characters saying that Zanni is responsible for his death.
-Zanni enters, not understanding that Harlequin is dead and starts poking him, Pantalone gets angry which causes Zanni to point at and blame Columbina.
-Columbina then points to Il Capitano, who points at Brighella (so on and so forth) until we have all pointed at and blamed a different character three times.
We run through the scene a few times until we all felt happy and confident with what is happening. We than began to discuss what we want to happen in our piece, we know that we want each character to have a back tracking scene where they show what they were doing before Harlequin was discovered to be dead, but Lorna came up with the idea that we could all show a scene in which we are about to kill harlequin, but stop just before we do so. Oliver then expanded on this idea by suggesting that each of these scenes could slightly overlap to show Harlequin wondering from one scene to another, with characters that would usually be with each-other (such as the lovers), making it out of that scene by the skin of his teeth, and into another scene (which could be with The Doctor and Pantalone), and almost being killed once again. Next lesson we are going to start by running our first scene and we are then going to start devising each characters scene and how they could have killed Harlequin.
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