Day 8

Absent: Ash

Guest Instructor: Mondy Carter. Mondy will be running class next week, Feb. 19 & 21.

We worked with several moments of silence.

General considerations:
Earn the silence. Bring pace and energy up to the moment. Too many pauses, and halts will deflate the important moment you are after.
Use the space. As the space decreases your options diminish. You literally have nowhere else to go.
Rule of 3: repeat, repeat, replace.
When your character is in an altered state (ie. drunk, crazy) beware of trying to play the condition. Remember: the drunk person is trying to act sober and the crazy person thinks himself sane.

As we move forward, it is time to assess our characters. We have all been watching Lionel, Sylvie, Celia, and Toby in a variety of situations. Lets begin to amass our understanding of these people.

Assignment: write your observations of each of these characters in relation to the other. Confucius reminds us that we are defined by our role(s) in life: father, daughter, teacher, student, and so on. How then are our characters defined by one another?

For your midterm work, please write up profiles of your characters as they are in relation to one another. For example: "When Lionel is with Celia, he..." "When Sylvie is with Toby, she..."
Discuss the ways in which other characters trigger or shape your character. For example: "Toby 's drinking tends to cause Celia to be..." "When Sylvie makes sarcastics remarks, Lionel becomes...."

Please have these observations for me in writing on our last class of the term: Feb 28.