We began today's lesson by running our first scene as we had intended, however we found that it had become dull and boring. Although we are happy with what is happening in our scene, we all felt that we should do something that will give us our energy back, we decided to go off into groups and work with characters we haven't worked with before to ensure that each character knows how they would interact with one and other. At first we sat down as a class, and answered any questions people had about our characters, most were about the relations to other characters and traits they posses. We then broke off into smaller groups, I worked with Oliver / The Doctor and Rob / Il Capitano whilst Lorna / Brighella worked with James / Zanni and Lewis / Pantalone worked with Charlie / Harlequin. As Oliver and Rob were not completely focused on the Lazzi we were trying to create, our Lazzi was short and we didn't have time to rehearse it, however we work shopped our Lazzis to improve them after showing them to the others. We started our piece with Il Capitano and The Doctor bowing to each other, centre stage before walking back, and drawing their swords ready for their fight. Whilst this is happening, I am laying seductively up centre stage which is the reason for them having this sword fight, to try and impress me. They are having their fight until I slowly walk towards their line of fight, they stop there fight and Il Capitno goes to his knees and kisses my hand, whilst he kisses my hand I snatch his sword out of his hand, and go to The Doctor and curtsy as an invitation for him to fight with me, I then turn my head and wink at the audience to maintain the relationship that my character has with the audience (in which she can poke fun at the other characters), The Doctor then bows down and I make a fast swish of my sword over his bowing body, he stands and takes a small stab towards me, which Columbina finds insulting, I then have a small fight with The Doctor it is clear that I am winning and we end our piece with me having knocked The Doctors sword from his hand and with mine up to his neck, we both turn to the audience, The Doctor with a very worried look on his face and I, with a sweet smile and wink.
The others really liked our lazzi and we received good feedback, we all had mastered how our characters move, but I was told that I should have more eye contact with audience, to help build the relationship I have with them, also to push Il Capitano out of the way or perhaps go down to his level, as if to flirt with him when I take his sword. Oliver and Rob received the same feedback that they both should have more exaggerated facial expressions and use more gromalot.
After work shopping on our Lazzis, we all felt more in character so run through our first scene again. Luckily it worked much better as people were more enthusiastic as we have now become more confident with our characterisation. However we decided that our piece could be a little longer so when everybody is blaming each-other for Harlequins death, as I am often the voice of reason I am going to stop everybody from arguing and blaming and possibly say one of the following:
-We must stop this at once, please, everybody, stop, we're not going to be able to figure out what happened, if we're all going to just aimlessly point fingers and blame each other are we?
-The first thing we need to do, is figure out the last time each of us saw Harlequin, is it not?
-So, one-by-one lets give our stories of what we've all done in the last 24 hours, and if anything doesn't add up, and nobody can provide evidence of what they claim to have been doing, then they must be lying, and therefore guilty, do you not agree?
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