in my groups prologue we had the lines from 'i reckon' to 'some people say the city sleeps at night!'. the taxi driver finds out if the passengers liked the east end, the passengers agreed that they did and the taxi driver corrected a line a passenger said, which was 'you see some real shady people' which then the taxi driver corrected ' you mean shadowy'. The driver then asks if its true that the city sleeps at night and the scene ended there.There wasn't a lot to work with, however the taxi driver could of made a more enthusiastic conversation asking who they were, why they were there and where they were going.
We had three people in our prologue- the taxi driver facing forward and two passengers back to back behind the taxi driver facing sideways standing up, to create some dynamics, we thought this was effective because it showed the different types of relationships that the passengers had with the taxi driver, because we were all really close together, this showed a bond in their relationships that's why they were upfront while speaking, when we first read our lines we interpreted them to be rather unusual for a common taxi driver to say, therefore we wanted to portray this and we did that by working a lot with characterisation so the passengers appeared to have some sort of underlying secret. in my opinion the exercise we did was challenging because there wasn't much creativity in the piece to collaborate with and so it was hard not to change the whole piece.
The group that was most effective was Ella's group because, they had added movement to their piece so it was more realistic and believable. They really added creativity to their piece and it worked really well.
Hot-Seating
Why is hot-seating an effective technique to use in a rehearsal?
hot- seating is an effective technique to use in a rehearsal because its useful to build a character profile on the spot, think about their background, it also helps with understanding the text from different points of view and gaining more knowledge from facts you didn't know.
What did you learn about the driver?
I learnt more about the drivers background, for example his family life like having a pregnant wife and having a young child waiting for him at home. Also the fact someone mentioned he would live in an apartment helped me to understand his character more because he lives in such a small housing area, I knew he'd be very grateful for what he had and portrayed this in my characterisation of him.
What questions did you ask?
🔘 How long are your working hours?
🔘 How would you describe the East End in one word?
Explain what you did as a taxi driver. Why did you make these choices? (Think about character- voice/physicality.)
As a taxi driver I was irritated and tended to take it out on my passengers I decided to do this because people in the East End are generally stereotyped to be rude and constantly angry because of this research I decided to base my characterisation on this stereotype.
What did other people do?
Other people portrayed the taxi driver as the complete opposite to my interpretation because they showed him as happy and extroverted.
How did you work as an ensemble?
As an ensemble we illustrated other people's ideas of the taxi driver such as Alex's who was cockney and very masculine in her posture, I thought it was effective to do because we were able to differentiate one character from another and could grasp what was effective in each character and why and then we were able to use the effective techniques in our own character.
TALE 8
'Clap of thunder'
'You're in the wrong place'
'Just before sunrise'
'Hail stones bombard the darkness'
'Blitz'
'A burrow between buildings'
'Lawless tunnel'
'Hail piled up like icy gravel'
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