we got given two scenes that we will be doing. I got given 'Grass' which I am doing with Luke and 'Remote' which I am doing with Shae. 

Remote
Shae and I were both equally excited about 'Remote' as there is a lot that can be done with it.
"You don't seem to have a tv." This is the first line of the piece which fits nicely with the title of it, but as you read on you find out its about someone going to live with what it seems a relative; its in the middle of nowhere and there is no reception or signal. This also relates to the tile as well, a remote area is an area that is distant from any people, activities or buildings.
As the characters do not have any background story we thought to make it easier for us to get into role we would give them some back ground. Shae plays the girl who has moved up to the country side to live with her Aunt who is a distant relative from the family. 
Shae has moved up here because she is getting into to much trouble in London and her mother feels she needs to be isolated for a while. I play the Auntie which takes her on for a bit and just wants her to be happy but i am also quite sarcastic "You'll find you can feel if it' raining ."

Grass
Luke and I haven't done much work on this one, but my initial thoughts about this are positive. I feel a lot can be done with this scene, its funny how paranoid this person is and all the solutions their making up in their head. The plot of this scene is simple someone had grassed another person up but we don't know why and who. I think the next step for me and Luke is for us to make up a reason why this person is getting grassed up and who this person is.

We read through the rest of the script today, we used the same technique as we did last week were we had different partner each time and they were opposite us.

There were 2 particular scenes that stuck out for me and i think the whole class as well, they were 'The child who didn't know pain' and 'Star'.

'The child who didn't know pain' 
This is a really interesting one to think about as it is a weird question thing to even think about. What is pain? How do we know how to feel pain? Are we taught pain? Or is it just human instincts? 
There's loads of ways you can answer it, you can get all scientific and say talk about the nervous system. Your reflexes moves a part of our body away from something that is causing pain, a crucial way of warning you of danger, and stopping you from repeating it.
Or
You can just say its instinct. You can't be taught about pain its just something you know like, emotions, happy, sad, angry, worried, excited, nervous etc.

Star
Star also gets you thinking as although it gives you the facts it doesn't answer the question.
"It takes the light two point eight million years to get here." - fact.
"It might not be there. It could have died by now." - they could just be looking at nothing and no one would know or be able to find out if it is nothing or not.

Aas a group we read through about half the script of 'Love and 

Information'.  We read trough it in a away so that we had a partner on the opposite side of the 

class, this meant that after we went around the class once everyone would end up with a new 

partner. this was an interesting way to read it was we got to work with different people each 

scene we did.


It was also really fun reading through the play again but with the class, as you could see the way 

someone else would interpret a scene differently from how you do personally just reading it by 

yourself.


One scene I fount fun reading was 'Recluse' (a recluse is someone who lives in solidarity and 

tends to distance themselves from society and the general public). This scene is one of about 3 

that has more than 2 character in it, this made it difficult to sight read at first and took us a few 

times to get it right. Ashley played the recluse which i fount worked really well, this is because 

he made his voice and personality nervous and edgy. 

PIG LATIN 

Basically did a bit of research on Pigs Latin and its actually a really easy language to learn!

the scene in the Random section of Pig Latin goes like this.

"Ancay ouyay eakspay igpay atinlay?" and in English this means 'Can you speak pig latin?'

The rules of pigs latin is simple.

• First move all consonant letters of a word to the end of the word.
• Stop moving letters when you get to a vowel
• What = atwh you move wh and stop at the letter a.
• Then add ay to the end of the word 
• what = atwhay

• If a word begins with a vowel dont move any letters and add yay to the end of the word
• enter = enteryay

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT_ECX816hQ

The previous week we'd all been given a scene out of Love and information, we got paired up and had to prepare them for this week. I was with Luke and we had 'Fired'. 

Both our initial response to it was positive as it was funny and we could interpret it however we wanted to. Luke played the boss who was firing me (an arrogant man who didn't really care about his employs feelings) "Why don't you speak to my p.a. and make an appointment". I played the worker who has just been fired by email, (a stressed women who just want her boss to tell her she fired to her face) "Just sat it, you're fired, just say it"

We started off the lesson with a warm up of Zip, Zap, Bong. I feel that this exercise motivates us as actors and encourages us to be an active audience, where we can give positive feed back to others. 
Both classes were together for our audition process so we also got to see a couple of scenes from the other play 'Decades', which is also a play with sketches. 


Luke and I were the first pair to show our piece to both classes, Mr Crowther and Elliot asked us to do it a few times but interpreting it different each time. One of the times they asked us to do it as if Luke fancied me and I could not stand him. At first it was really hard to just change from how we had rehearsed it, but was a fun experience. 

Mr Crowther and Elliot told a lot of us to interpret their pieces this way or another, so of them were completely random. For example, they ask Lydia and Natalie to perform theirs as if they were different zoo animals. First they were snakes, then monkeys. 

This audition process works as it keeps the the actors auditioning on their toes, as they don't know what they are going to be asked to do next. I enjoyed this day as it was good to see other peoples interpretations of 'fired' and seeing scenes from Decade ad well.

My first impression of reading the book was mixed feelings about it. Some of the sketches were easy to read and some of them weren't as easy. for example 'Fired' simple to understand and it comes under information, one that is quite a challenge to read and i didn't know if it was love or information or bot was 'The child who didn't know fear'.