In todays lesson we got into our groups for the play 'The Cherry Orchard'. We started off by finding our characters objective in our scene. I explored the text by reading a few sections before my speech and found that my character Varya's objective from page 57-61 of the play was to try and hide her annoyance towards Ranyevskaya and Trofimov.
By finding the objective, enabled me to practise the scene with a motivation and gave me insight into my characters mood and tone. It allowed me to find my characters need during the scene.
I also wrote down next to each of my lines the action involved with my line which I learnt that the action comes first and this allowed the emotion to then follow. The action is used to achieve the objective and helps the character with their overall motive. Moreover, I learnt that actions exist even in stillness and silence by listening to the other character and reacting how I would in the given circumstance. My action which was to stand up for myself, changed when other characters stepped in and moved to fussing and frustration.
To stay rooted in the moment, I used inner monologue such as "What are these people talking about?", "I am so annoyed"; which helped me deliver my lines truthfully and naturally.
In addition to this, I kept my lines and movement subtle by keeping a normal tone unless I felt very strongly about a point such as the line "It's not that. Like that. Mother, I can't propose to him.", as I empahised my annoyance at being misunderstood and found this more realistic.
During the other characters lines, I was constantly reacting in a way that was true to myself and my character which involved the constant inner monologue and thinking how I would act in the same situation. For example, when Trofimov explained to Ranyevskaya "Madam Lopahin, you must get more money-minded", I shook my head which expressed annoyance without words therefore concluding that by acting out an action an emotion follows.
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