My character in 'One For The Road' is 'Nicholas' which as you can tell, is a male. Ella said right from the beginning it may be interesting for partners who have say two girls or two boys to try and switch genders in the play and make a boy character played by a girl and the other way round etc.
So when me and Daisy chose to do the scene between Gila and Nicholas we read through it twice, one time each so we could both have a go at the character. We couldn't really choose what character we wanted to play as we both didn't really mind but it ended up with Daisy playing Gila and me playing Nicholas.
How have I developed this character?
- Obviously I started by not being too girly. Nicholas is originally a male but I don't mean that I am hiding the fact that I am a girl. I mean that he has a very menacing way about him and if I am too girly then it would not work.
- By reading it through with Daisy I have found ways I feel more comfortable to read out certain lines and have found that I find it a lot easier to keep a straight face.
- I get energy off Daisy so this keeps me feeling strong in my character as Daisy's character is belittled by my character a lot in the scene, the energy that she gives off helps make that work.
- I took the feedback of standing up more.
- I decided as our way of performing it is 'in the round' it made me want to move around more so that other people could see me in different angles as Daisy's character already isn't moving the whole scene.
- I feel that by me being a girl and playing this character...in some of my lines that I say it can be a lot more shocking that a girl is saying it rather than a man. I feel like this works and makes the scene stronger.
- I have wrote on my script what my motivation is in the scene and how I should say my lines or what emotion I should feel / give out on that line.
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