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.