Blood Brothers

In one lesson we made up a scene, which showed a day in the life of Mrs Lyon.  I was playing a little boy who was rich and he got a gold watch but he wanted lots of money instead, and he started to moan, about what he got.  One moment that was very effective in this scene was we used facial expressions, like I screwed up my face and using gesture to show I was upset, and we also used split scenes.  We did the scene to show the difference between a rich family’s Christmas and a poor family’s Christmas.  The group I was in, we all worked well together.  We did freeze frames as well, that was when we change different Christmases.  We did some funny (comical) stuff, like the boy over exaggerating in ways that were not needed but he thought they were.  I tried to make it believable as much as I could, but I made it funny as well.

Some of the things we did to rehearse the part about Mickey’s monologue was we acted like kids around that age.  We had to use gesture, and facial expressions, like acting as little kids would, just do stuff were only kids with imagination would.  I played the role of Mickey.  I was watching Sammy drawing the naked women, and I had to pretend to be just like him.  We had to remember to use Stanislavski’s techniques about emotional memory.  At one point in the scene, my character felt shocked because he had never seen a naked woman before.  I tried to show this to the audience by staring at the woman.  I showed this by my body language, and gesture.  I thought our performance was successful because we worked well, and we had a good story to do.  One thing that was very effective was when they saw us watching them, the women.  I thought that was very effective, because they acted in the way of screaming and shouting at us.  One thing we could of improved was that there was one person in the group who was hard to work with.

One drama technique that I used during this topic was emotional memory.  I thought this was useful because any one can do it because they could put themselves in that position.  It is just like they could just play themselves.  But not every one is like that so they would have to research it, or they could know someone who has that kind of life style.  I have enjoyed working on the text.  One thing that I like about it is the rehearsals.  One thing that is difficult about the text is the learning the lines.  It is hard because you are trying to think of ways to act your character and then you have to remember what to say.