Thankfully, I actually got Andrea in this week! This week I worked with Brenton, Sebastian, Andrea and Dawn using the neutral masks. I thought this was really really important, because it forces the actor to use their body to express the plot and the emotion, instead of relying on the words. I think the person who had the hardest time with this was Brenton. That would be because his part is rather monotonous and doesn't do a lot of moving in the first few scenes of the play.
I purposely wrote this part like that, to show the character's lack of enthusiasm for the lightening his little sister is so interested in. The character in the beginning just generally shows a lack of interest in life, and it's not until he starts to tell this elaborate story that he comes alive physically.
They really took to the activity after I explained it to them and described the process. I would have liked to work a bit longer with them on it, and really explore it more indepth. However we ran out of time, and had to move on to really getting down to rehearsing scenes that had'nt been rehearsed.
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