Globe Theatre exercise: 08/02:16

Today we looked at Puck's monologue in Unit 14. Amber was instructed, at first, to say it really vaguely with no emotion or gestures. The class then directed her on each line to do a gesture or where to walk on the stage. At the beginning, Amber delivered the monologue very boringly and because she had no gestures or expression in her voice us as an audience did not understand the lines she was saying which made the scene confusing and un enjoyable. By the end of the exercise she was confident with the meaning of every line and had gestures and clear emotions with everything she said. We were sitting in a thrust stage setting and had to think about how this monologue would be performed in the Globe Theatre. I learned from this exercise that we must always think about what the lines we are saying mean and how we should say it, so that the audience can understand everything we are saying in the scene. I also learned that our characters must always be showing an emotion and it must be clear to ourselves and the audience so that we can be understood and we have something to go on and we can develop our characters throughout the scene.