A View From The Bridge, 9/1/2014

9/1/2014

Single Lesson

Within this lesson, we set out our first extract which is the opening scene of A View From The Bridge. We were doing this on the stage which is a Proscenium March setting. This was the first time we had properly started working on our extracts, since before we were doing extracts that we wouldn't actually perform because we all have one character in our scenes which means he has to keep changing groups.

We were directed by a girl in the class who is playing the same character as me. This was helpful because we could talk about how to act as Catherine and that she is a lot younger than us even though she is the same age. She just doesn't know much about the world like we do and is an innocent girl who will do anything for her Uncle Eddie. We set out where Catherine would be sitting with Eddie until Beatrice, her aunt, came in and also their reactions to each other. I needed to be more of a child like Catherine would've been because the play is set in 1950s Brooklyn. Teenagers weren't educated as well since it was just after World War 2 and women were needed out of education to commit to war help.

We finally set out the scene and decided to perform it without our books which we were reading our lines from. There were a few lines which I got stuck on but they were the simple lines such as 'Why?'. Since this was our first actual time of reading the lines out together as a extract group, I wasn't use to how fast people would read their lines compared to how slow I was reading them to myself whilst trying to learn my lines.


Double Lesson - That afternoon

That lesson we had the single people missing from our lesson. This meant that some of us couldn't do our extracts and then Eddie had to be needed within another extract so I couldn't rehearse properly without him as most of my extracts are just conversations with him. Instead I stood in and played Rodolpho, but we didn't get to the point where I could say the lines because the first part of the extract had to be kept going over to get it perfect.