Female v Male

The plan for today’s rehearsal was to explore the differences between the forest and the court. My mentor, Tom, was once again with us and we had had a really good planning session the evening prior. We discussed how we can make the two areas completely different, straight lines against curved, feminine opposed to masculine, geometric shapes/clumps……we came up with quite a few ideas.

So in the rehearsal we used some games to help the actors find these differences. This involved women taking on masculine roles and visa versa; moving a tennis ball around the body in different ways; looking at stylized walks; thinking about shapes of groups of people. Much was achieved and a great deal of amusement…… especially the “ssshhh!” game….hard to explain and very hard to play!!!