Walking around as Nora

Walking around as Nora
This time round we were feeling and seeing Nora’s house. I found it so much easier I really thought I could see threw Nora’s eyes to her house. Seeing her furniture, the walls, lights and doors. Even noticing details. With this exercise if I was looking at a chair I could imagine what Nora’s chair would look like, but if I closed my eyes or slightly looked away I could imagine what her chair looked like and the feel the material. Noticing the designs on the wall paper, there was no chipped wallpaper. Everything was pristine, no mess.
Mannerisms, how do I walk as Nora? How do I sit as Nora? We did an exercise in voice like this so it was good to see how my thoughts and the way I present myself as Nora has changed.
We then added a sentence for our character and said it in all different ways you could make it come across. “you don’t understand do you?”

We are selfish people

We walked around the space and felt everything in detail. We all need to know and trust our space. Actors are selfish people.

Emotive memory

Emotive memoryWe laid in semi-supine and thought about our most happiest place. Where it is? what you can see? what it smells like? what are you doing? What are people around you doing? Etc. I choose my house in Wales as all my memories are amazing there. I started with what I could see, fields, cows and long roads. Then I went deeper into this. What I could smell, fresh air, farm and freshly cut grass. How it felt was the hardest, the warmness but chilly breeze, the cold patio under me, how happy I feel when I am there and think about it. 

My scene
I am Nora it is one of the end scenes of the play. Torvald now knows everything about the money and fraud. I feel I have quite important scene of the play, as Nora is talk about how she was just a doll her whole life and how her two main male figures in her life (father and husband) have treated her the same. Like a child and like a toy. She is building up to telling him she is leaving for good. Nora is standing up for herself.
Nora is a very well spoken person, so this is a challenge for me. I’ve started by overly articulating my words, hopefully if I keep practising this I will find it to come and sound more naturally.
My objective in this scene I would say is that I’m trying to explain to Torvald that I realise now I’ve never had my own life somebody had always controlled it. I was a doll my whole life. 

Circle of attention

Circle of attentionthe small objective would be the characters want in the scene. The main attention would be their overall aim in the play.
You can make more objectives by making more circles of attention. The focus and aim in a line. Then in a scene. Then in the act. Then the main focal point, the play. 

Given Circumstances

Given Circumstances What effects is effecting the character, in the past, present, what is going to happen, what could happen, the environment and personal situations.
4^th wall- acting natural not acting for an audience.
To start with, we watching someone just be themselves sitting on chairs in the space by themselves. We analyse their:
-body language
-mannerisms
-facial expression/s
-eye line
With this information you can give them a place where they could be and a time.
Suki paced and tapped her foot, she seemed nervous. So we decided to put her in a doctors waiting room waiting to be seen. I gathered from this exercise that the slightest movements, eye twitches or even your posture can say 100 different things to the audience. You have to be very specific of what you want the audience to be thinking.