Week 4 -Priscilla

WEEK 4

I am going to use Epic theatre as a basis for this write up.

One of the needs of that genre was for the audience to empathize with the characters on stage. Thus I would play my character as realistically as possible.

My aim- will be to get the audience to sympathize with a confused young girl who is trying to find the answers her heart tells her she needs.

Costume- I don’t think there is a dire need to put her up in a girls school uniform, anything will do really. I don’t see a huge diff.

Ending- I’m not too sure (so ill verify when I am) whether Epic theatre requires us to provide a sort of solution for the problems that we present.

Modification- I still just can’t grasp why she started eating shit. Was it because she thought it would help her go back to the way she was? I don’t see the link. It doesn’t seem like her to resort to such a thing and to so easily believe in the fact that eating shit would be a solution to whatever the problem seems to be.

Sarah- I’m very emotional and very short tempered too and did I mention I was easily annoyed by people who aren’t as sensible as me. I usually do things relatively slowly because I have to analyze and think about them first, so action comes only after thought. However when I’m angry, there is no stopping me from doing anything. When I have made a decision there is no stopping me. When I hate I do it wholeheartedly and the same goes for love, pity as well as anything else I set my mind to.

Gek speaks fast and in that annoying theatrical bullshit kind of voice that annoys the hell out of me! So excited and cherry all the time!

Baby is adorable at times. One can see from the pace that she speaks in that she thinks through everything, maybe even more than I do!

Mug is incomprehensible some of the times. He has this fixed rhythm to the way he speaks which is broken only when he starts a new sentence or when there is a punctuation that links two words that don’t make sense when put side by side. So not human!

Mui Choo- Kind, gentle and maybe too fragile. She would make a great mum, only problem is that she would not be able to care for its need for information. She has that uneducated peace about her. Unlike me she is somehow at peace with everything that is around her, and she seems to accept things as they are.

Characters according to pace of speech-
1) Gek
2) Mug
3) Sarah/ Death
4) Mui Choo
5) Baby