Rehearsal 5

In this lesson we looked at given objectives for our character's. Given objectives are important for a character to have because if they don't have them they don't have a purpose in the scene.
Given circumstances are things such as:

•Opinions your character has on other characters
•Facts about your character
•where you live
•who your are related to
•what's your character's backstory-could affect the attitude of your character now

We explored our character's given circumstances by looking through the text and finding quotes from other character's about our character or pieces that gave us a clue about our character's personality, objective and purpose.

"Acting is nothing but to live within the given circumstances" - Meisner

Objectives are broken down into two types throughout the play:

•super objective: your character's aim and purpose throughout the whole play
•objective: character's purpose throughout the scene

Circles of attention
Circles of attention is at what distance your character's attention is based. For example, a character could be having a private conversation with another character on stage but because it itba performance they cant nesisarily become quiet because the audience wouldn't hear, they'd lower their volume slightly but mostly show they're in a private conversation through their body language .There are 3 types of circles of attention:

•public- this is when they are basing their attention round the whole stage and they are in no way privatising themselves with another and speaking clearly for all to hear.
•personal- this is when two characters are in conversation but it's not necessarily private,  they might stand a little closer together but not completely closed off from everyone else.
•private- this is when the character is complety focusing all tbeir attention towards the other character they are talking with and getting closer to this person to show they are in a private conversation making it hard for others to divert the attention of the conversation.