'The Pillowman' 26&27|2|13. - 'Final Performance'

After the performance the Tupolski's were asked a number of questions about our final decisions on how we carried through our characters. I feel this response will be a better explanation for some of the final choices I made about my character and where some alterations were made to specific parts or lines in the play. 

LESSON EIGHTEEN. - 18&19|2|13 - 'The Pillowman' - 'Half Term Rehearsals.'

In the half term holidays, a week before the final performance, we went into school to make the more intricate changes to previous blocking idea's, that allowed us to add more depth into the performance. Me and Emily then logged on a video the changes that we made in the first act.

We then did an undirected run through for the first time of the play. There were some points of weakness due to remembering the changes and having a long day. But overall I think we managed to give the performance more depth and gave us an idea of the fluidity and pace it should be running at. It also gave us a chance to see where certain tones worked and where they didn't work depending on the sections that were surrounding them, allowing us to think further where a different tone should be used and which parts needed to be practised more.

LESSON SEVENTEEN. 6|2|13. 'The Pillowman - Photo's'

Today we were dealing with some promotional side of 'The Pillowman'. We wanted to take a around 25 - 50 pictures that could be used as a poster as well as projected onto the wall. To do this, we decided that we would go through the most dynamic parts of the script to take photo's. This would also allow us to think more about our facial expressions which we could then transfer to the final performance.

I really like this image that we took, I like how Katurian seems sad - almost confused and how I'm not really paying attention, with a blank expression. This portrays how the characters are within the first scene. With Tupolski being fairly dismissive to Katurian's fear and Katurian still being confused on why she is there. This would be good for the poster, because the audience would want to find out more of the performance and why my character looks displeased or blank whilst Kelly is fiddling with her hands making her seem nervous. It raises questions such as 'why is she nervous?' 'what has she done?' when in fact she doesn't know what she's done. 

I really like these two images of the siblings Katurian and Michal. It's showing the moment just before Katurian smothers Michal with the pillow to save him the horror and torture and execution at the hands of the police. In the second picture you can slightly see the bitterness of the choice Katurian is making to kill her own brother in one of the most humane ways possible. Although I really like this image, for a promotional picture, I think it gives away too much of the story and would give the audience a hint to who is going to die before even seeing the play.