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1. This week we worked on improving pages 1-49 of our scripts by working and developing are performance on each scene. My first scene is Ed and Mr Gascoyne talking about Christopher doing his A-levels early, Ed keeps asking for reasons that Christopher can't do his A-level, Mr Gascoyne keeps coming up with reasons like "he can't treat Christopher differently to other students" or "I don't think we have the facilities to support this". We improved the scene by going other the scene without scripts so we can focus on are technique and physicality of each of our character we use. when we did scene with this in mind I have Mr Gascoyne sitting in his chair laid back not really listening to Eds request because to him it stupid for a special needs child to do his A-level earlier then he has to as to him there's no chance of it ending good. throughout the scene Ed show persistent over the matter which leads Mr Gascoyne to have to raise himself up and say it would be better to talk about this on there own as Christopher was present in the room, Ed says he doesn't care about that so Mr Gascoyne rises to his level and says about how Christopher would have to be by himself which is a problem for a boy like Christopher while doing the A-level. for next time I do that scene I'm going to work on my pronunciation by making my sentences slower and focused on the pronunciation of words. i also want to look into my stance into making it more of a powerful stand.

2. This week we did a exercise that would help our physicality of our characters in the performance. We walked around first as ourselves so we could tell what are distinctive traits were for when we walk and then decided how are characters would walk. We alternated between are normal walk and are characters walk so we could get use to are character change. We then worked on are transition from an neutral sitting to standing as are character and going straight into the scene. I think this was very useful to me as I was struggling with the change between me to my characters and this has defiantly helped me with this skill.

3. This week I researched into what I want my 2 main characters to look like and walk like. Decided for Mr Gascoyne I wanted him to an older, well presented man. For the Shopkeeper I imagined that he would look like a shady and shaggy man who talks with a cockney accent.

Mr Gascoyne:


Shopkeeper:

4. This week we did well in running act 1 of curious incident as we managed to get a good flow in the performance as we all new are lines except a couple of odd lines from some which was to be expected but other than that we showed good co-operation and team work in the practice of act 1.

5. To develop the production further I believe it would be better if we could learn more dynamic lifts to use in the performance like there’s this lift in the west end performance where Christopher is lifted by 2 people only using 1 arm up above their heads which I would love to be able to do as well as over acrobatics and lifts to make the lifting scenes have a “wow” factor.