Double Performing Arts Lesson (22nd January 2016)

We began today's lesson with a warm up and a focus exercise to get us all motivated for the lesson. After we completed our warm ups we performed our scenes we had worked on previously. Olly and Lewis's was my favourite scene. It was about The Doctor and Pantalone planning to kill Harlequin. This was my favourite scene because I believe they understood their characters better than the other groups and it was a funny and believe scene that quite easily be used in a real Commedia De'll Arte performance.

Although I believe Lorna, Charlie and My scene was also good because it was funny and well directed. However we still need work on our characters. Our scene was also about killing harlequin but it was accidental. I attempted to boss Brighella around but she was having none of it and she challenged me to a duel. As my character is scared of everything I was trying to escape and Brighella attempted to stab me but i moved out the way and accidentally killed Harlequin (who was innocently walking behind.)

The other groups (James and Rhiannon) piece was clever as they used no speech and only movement. There piece was about love as they threw their loves hearts to each other.

After watching the three scenes and getting notes/feedback, we decided to begin working on our first scene. We agreed that we wanted to begin the show with harlequin lying dead on the floor and the plot of the performance would be the flash backs of each character to find out who killed Harlequin. 

Our opening scene is staged as: 

-   Harlequin center stage - dead. Zanni SL is asleep.

-   Brighella walks in and finds Harlequin. Thinks he's asleep then realises he's dead.
-   Brighella calls Doctor on. Doctor does diagnosis.
-   Pantalone walks on and blames Brighella.
-   Brighella blames Il Capitano, who enters then blames Columbina.
-   Columbina enters and blames Zanni.
-   Zanni enters and prods Harlequin. Brig is angry. Zanni blames Columbina.
-   Everyone points at different people. The pointing swaps.
-   Il Capitano is certain that it is Doctor and Pantalone.