How I developed the character of 'Marley'

Marley:

At first I really wasn't sure how to play Marley, I didn't know whether she was nice, unkind, chav style, polite or what her voice was like. I would say I am a well spoken person most of the time and I felt like I needed to bring that down in this scene with Michael.

After a few times of us doing the scene in front of Ella, she felt like I needed to come across as if I'm almost about to reach out to the character of Danny, but he almost pushes me away even though in other scenes it comes across that Marley is all he wants. We added him holding my hands at the end when he asks me to go back inside.

So when I first started playing Marley, I was playing her as if she was really cold towards Danny, with slight concern but she doesn't really care. Some of my lines came across like she was teasing Danny, so I played with that. Eventually I started to play her a little less cold, bit numb towards Danny, but also showing concern for him, and showing that I still care even if he is really unwell.

Working with Michael was great, I felt we created a great connection with the relationships of the characters.

HANG - SCENE WITH LILY AND SASKIA

Ella asked me to do a scene with Lily and Saskia in the play of 'Hang' by Debbie tucker green.Hang has three characters in it called 'ONE, TWO AND THREE' Three is usually played by a black lady and one and two can be either both male, both female, or one of the other sex. In this scene, I play ONE, Lily plays TWO, and Saskia plays THREE.

In this play, in some of the scenes you will see this '/' which basically means whoever is talking will get talked over by the person who has the next line. I have never seen this before I read this play so I found it interesting but this can be difficult because sometimes the overlay isn't done at the right time and can be quite difficult. This scene is definitely a challenge for me and I like the scene itself.

Our particular scene is when THREE finds out when ONE AND TWO have a letter from THREE'S husband from six weeks ago and she is not happy. ONE is basically lying saying that they had only received it a few days ago and then TWO comes in and basically tells the truth which is that they read it five weeks ago.

REHEARSALS :

I have done a read through with Michael:

This was done before we ever showed it to Ella. When Ella watched it she said Michael needed to be a bit more of a weirdo/crazy/mental. She thought he was being to soft especially at the end when he tells my character to go back inside, Ella said he needed to sound more threatening then sad. Also that I needed to be a little bit more blunt with him but also stunned at some of the stuff he says too my character.

Due to the commedia workshop we haven't done many rehearsals and have had to move our show which we are now doing on the 17th & 18th of March. We are performing in the round and we will be sitting in with the audience. I am really excited to perform this way as I have never done it before.