GRASS

Grass is defiantly on of my favourite scenes that I have, I think this is because I can bring a lot to the sketch. 
I am in this scene with Liam.

The title 'Grass' tells us that this scene is about someone being 'grassed up' (someone telling someone with authority, usually the police, on someone about something they have done).

Liam and I came to a decision that this man is grassing up a close neighbour. This neighbour had vandalised/damaged  another persons car who also lives down their street.
We thought this would be a good crime to base it around as it is not such a big crime but as the person is so close to them (living and friends wise) he and she are both very paranoid with the consequences of their actions.

The character in this piece seems like quite a scatty and paranoid person. She quite clearly has authority over the character who is a boyfriend or husband. She shows this by the way she cuts him off when he is trying to talk.
"what did you do that for?"
"I thought-"
"what do you think's going to happen to you?"
Also she implies that he is stupid and he does not retaliate and just takes it on the chin.
"...I'm not stupid"
"Well you are but ok..." 

With this character I feel that I can bring an element of myself to her. I could bring my urban voice more to the performance and youth like mannerisms and physicality.

I really enjoyed playing this person as I felt it was an easier character to play than the others. But as I fount certain elements of this scene easier than others, I  fount others hard, for example: I got given the stage directions to be pacing up and down, but I would either get too rapped up in the pacing I would forget to focus on lines or vise versa.

REMOTE

Remote was the first scene I am in, I do this with Shae.


From the title 'Remote' my first impression was that it would of been about a television or a remote control. What also sprung to mind was remote as in a 'remote area' which means a place that is distant from any people or activities or buildings. No nearby town. Or a town which is within an area that is far from any where. 
Funnily enough both of these assumptions were right.


"You dont seem to have a tv ." 
"You might have a reception problem there"
Both these lines link to the title to do with a remote control.

"It's quite here"
"...Or i think someone said there's a spot about two miles up the road if you go down towards the cliff.." 
Where these lines can relate to a remote area. Living in the middle of no where and having to travel very far to even get phone reception.

characterization.
This character was named Marie. She was in her late 30's early 40's and didn't have a job or get out the house a lot. So she stemmed her boredom with gardening.
The other character in this sketch (Shae) was a distant relative of hers, in her late teens who needed to get out of the city for a while for social and behavior reasons. 
For this character I fount it quite hard giving it a personality. I think this was because she is very different to me as a person, from what I gathered from the text. So I experimented lots of different physicality and personalities for her, from:

• Her not being  very interested in her distant relative. Constantly distracted by other things, not paying any attention to her.
• Her being quite shy and dismissive around the relative. Looking at floor and hands a lot.
• Her being a friendly and enthusiastic person. Tells a lot about herself through her hand movements and facial expression.

In the end I decided that 'Marie' would be quite a jolly person.

I feel this worked well in this scene because Shae's character always had to have one over Marie, and she just didn't rise to it and just carried on the conversation as normal. I think these subtleties made the character more individual and separated her from my others.