We also had a brainstorming session to help us connect emotional words to the character of Netti and we then created frozen images expressing these feelings that Netti would have felt, and we did this because this helped us to play the character better and allowed us to explore the mind of Netti.
One of the things that allowed us to explore the character of Netti in a lot more detail was the hot seating exercise; this was when we were all seated in a circle and the teacher at random pointed at each of us and asked us questions as if we were Netti herself, this was quite a hard exercise and some of us found it difficult to explore the character of Netti in such detail that they mumbled and stuttered a lot.
We also did a role play of Netti’s mates and neighbors sitting together and talking freely about Netti and Harpo, this exercise managed to bring to light some of the classes personal views about the matter of what was going on between Netti and Harpo, this helped a lot in allowing all of the other students in the classroom to understand the characters of Netti and Harpo in a lot more depth, because it raised the idea of two different sides to the argument e.g. the side for helping Netti, or the side that justifies what Harpo is doing to her.
We not only explored the character of Netti we also had to explore the character of Harpo we also did this in detail but maybe not as much detail as we used when we were learning about the character of Netti.
We explored the character of Harpo in role play; the teacher split the class up into two groups and then told us to act out a night out with Harpo’s mates at the pub. Both groups showed him to be quite aggressive and both groups also showed him to be quite timid and quite person, which was the whole idea of it.
All of the work that we did in class helped us to build up to our final piece of drama witch was showing Harpo coming back from the pub with one of his friends and then, Netti also has a friend over and doesn’t realize that Harpo is coming back Home and she then quickly tries to rush her friend out the house before she allows Harpo and his friend to come in; during the time that Harpo and his friend are in the House there are a couple of confrontations that happen between Harpo and his friend and also, Harpo and Netti.
When we did the part of the play that showed Netti speaking to her friend we chose to show that Nettie was very agitated and really didn’t want to listen to her friend babbling on about her life and what was happening, but she was willing to listen to her just to have her company because Netti wasn’t allowed to have anyone over at her house.
Also the confrontations that happened in the house between Harpo, his friend and Netti were all caused by simple things such as looking at each other and physical contact by accident. This showed the tension and the friction between Harpo and Nettie and it showed that even the simple things could trigger his anger.
The confrontations that we used in the play were not well executed because we did not go over confrontations in the classroom and we did not have a great idea how to do them, because we were not taught well enough to do them.
I thought that the whole class and I did well during all of this work, and that we needed to be a bit more time organized because part of the play was improvised because we hadn’t organized our time properly so that we could rehearse every part of the play properly.
