Contemporary

My scene- Overall i think my scene went well. Some things we did well was understanding our objectives for the scene and our characters motivation for everything they say or do which allowed me to think as my character and really understand the scene. We also knew all our lines and didn't mess up allowing it to flow easily and not focus on the next line but the next feeling and intention. We also had spacial awareness and created a world for us to perform in, i could vision the environment they were in and allowed that to effect the way i moved and behaved because i was in a work place. We kept in character during the scene and had strong three dimensional built up understandings of those characters to rely on this is a low status not powerful point in her life where she wouldn't be strong and powerful and i think i projected that but i could have played up parts like her fainting more. We also had some chemistry which was something we worked on a lot because at the start i fe...

Who am i?  Linda Wilde Age 40  Mother of two daughters Alice and Bridget  Married to Neil Works for swan beauty My mum died when i was young which has left me with a constant feeling that i am not good enough and a need to control everyone and thing around me I work for a beauty company and my job was mainly given to be based on looks which makes me feel the need to be beautiful and focus more on beauty than intelligence which negatively impacts my daughters I have a lot of pressure on me to be a good parent and a good worker and i struggle to cope with it all at times and often will put my job before my family which has slowly broken the family My husband cheated on me with someone younger My job is being taken by someone younger  My daughter is depressed I slept with a boy my daughters age and got blackmailed into quitting my job because of this by the same girl who spread my daughters nude pictures and caused her to be depressed....

Linda is in a vulnerable place after being rejected by Dave and learning about Neil and Stevie so when a Luke is kind to her she is very willing to have sex with him, i think she does it to get back at Neil and to prove that she is young and wanted. In the scene Luke is kind to Linda and there is some flirtation and then Luke starts undermining Linda and preaching his religion which annoys Linda as she wants to feel valued and to make herself valued she has sex with him in a cupboard. 

Notes from other groups- Most groups had interview structure but focused on creating an exciting theatrical piece not just speaking, some groups were interactive to include the audience which was fun. Royal court likes violent shows Skinner stopped shaving and conforming to beauty standards She thought she would have to scrap the play if Hilary Clinton won as a woman would be breaking the glass ceiling but she didn't Penelope Skinner was born in 1978, she is a British playwright. Her plays have been performed in the Bush Theatre, the National Theatre, the Edinburgh festival and the Royal Court. Her first play Fucked was put on in 2008 and the Old Red Lion. Skinner is a feminist who wants to emphasise female empowerment through plays. The Royal Court theatre was built in 1870 and rebuilt twice in 1888 and again in 2000. It was damaged by a world war 2 bomb. They call themselves 'the writers theatre' because they show work from undiscovered cultivating writers. They c...

We worked on short pieces of acting that showed the story of Linda key points - Linda's downfall once having it all - society's control over her life - Amy's effect on Linda - Luke sleeping with her Narrative  Linda is about a 40 year old woman named Linda who is at the height of her life, a great job, a loving husband, two beautiful daughters. She wants to advocate for the older generation and put them in the media more with her ad campaign but someone younger gets the job. Her husband cheats on her with a younger woman and her daughter is suffering from mental health issues. She sleeps with a coworker the same age as her daughter and gets blackmailed into resigning. Linda cant deal with all the issues and feels unappreciated and becomes the invisible women she talked about at the start of the play. She tries to help Alice by killing Amy but fails so kills herself because she doesn't believe she can fix the issues anymore and the world becomes too out of...