Today was another great drama lesson because we got to read a part of the script which we had try to act out the day before.
We noticed that our devised scene was quite similar to the real one because we had said that in our piece, Reverend Hale had to continuously keep asking questions about 'the night' with Abigail and Abbie tries to get out of it but Revenerend Hale hounds her with every last questions until she looks like she is about to tell the real thing. This is what we made up and it turned out that it was basically the same thing in the real script. However something we did not add was when the reverends start questioning Tituba about her Christianity and asking her if she trusts in god and we didn't add that after, Abbie says that she 'danced with the devil' and 'wrote in his book' and suddenly goes into a trance and starts naming innocent people along with Betty.
After reading the script we made up 3 Tableaux of the start, middle and end of the scene.
Here are the 3 pictures to show our tableaux
The first one was at the beginning, was about Abbie (middle) being questioned by Reverend Hale (Right). Abbie is trying to get her uncle, Reverend Parris (left) to believe her. She is tugging on his shirt and begging him to agree with her.
The second one was in the middle, it was about Abbie accusing Tituba for the cause of Betty's incident. You can tell that Tituba is low status because she is on the floor and crouching very low. Although you cannot see that Abbie's face clearly, you can tell she is a lot higher status then Tituba because she is smirking slightly and point directly at Tituba.
The last one Tituba is not in it but betty is, she is has just woken up in a trance and is saying a whole load of names. You can see that reverend Hale is shocked by his body language. Raising his hands, makes his pose seem a lot more realistic. You can also see that Reverend Hale is writing down everything that is being said and being done.
After the three Tableaux, we went on to performing the end of the scene. This was the part where Abigail is confessing that she 'danced with the devil' and suddenly goes into trance where she starts naming basically everyone in the village, suddenly Betty gets up and starts naming names as well. Both of the girls are staring directly ahead and are just continuously saying names and Reverend Hale and Parris are both completely shocked because Betty has woken up.
We did this scene 4 times, each time changing character and we did this so that we could see how it felt to play a different role and to see how everyone else acted in the role. We also used music to make the whole scene more intense and effective. As an actor it was good to try it with music, because you can actually start to feel as if it is all real and this makes everything seem more realistic. We do not have lighting in our Black Box Theater yet (because its new) but if we did, then I think that it would be awesome to have a dim yellow light overcasting the set and it could change color to a dim red when Abby and Betty start the chant.
THANK YOU MS.PRIOR FOR ANOTHER AMAZING LESSON!
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