Mar 27 2009
Attending Drama College
I had such a wonderful time at college last night. I was taught by a tutor I have never had before and he was absolutely amazing and extremely talented. My other tutor has never been able to take us to the level that this guy did. We did some really interesting and exciting activities.First of all we had to come up with an advert for a lotion that when you rubbed it on yourself it made you dance.
We called it Bop and priced it at £27.99 from Boots, it was a very funny advert. We were dancing and I was an over confident sales person who thought this lotion was the next best thing. We were split in two groups and the other group didn’t manage to come up with an advert because they were too busy sitting and writing it all down. However I said from the start that what we needed to do was just get on and do it, so that’s what we did and we came up with something rather impressive.The second half of the evening we had to make a living room out of chairs and a table then play out a scenario whilst one of us was blind folded. The person who was blind folded was told that he was losing his sight and that he was a painter, but had to give up painting due to the lack of sight. We played out this scenario and I was a flirt who hated this guy’s wife. I felt really cruel, but that was the character. Then we all left the room and our tutor came in and started ripping up the bits of paper that were supposed to have this man’s art work on.
Then he started kicking over the table and chairs. Our friend who was the character started getting really angry and shouting. Then two of the other characters came into the room, the mother and the wife. They said the door was locked and that he must have recked the room himself. Afterwards we all sat down in the class and talked about the experience of it all.
It was very frightening because it felt so real. There were so many mixed emotions and it was kind of surreal. It was such a strange experience but, we were told that we had done really well and that it was an advanced activity that we should all be proud of ourselves. I can honestly say that I have not enjoyed acting like that since the last time I did my Btec National Diploma in Performing Arts. This guy is a genius and I loved working with him. I feel that even though the years course has been a bit of a flop I can take something very positive away from this from that lesson. He also taught us a bit about trust, truth, courage and spacial awareness. Oh and he taught us about the fourth wall that is very valuable to me since I will take it away with me forever.
It will help my nerves and my confidence and every time I perform I will remember that there is a fourth wall that separates me and the audience. Although the audience can see through it I cannot see out of it at the audience. Tomorrow I will talk about this fourth wall and try to explain a bit more about what it is.
