Day Fourteen
What do you got?! An important convention that we have been playing with in recent rehearsals is receiving and giving something powerful. That powerful thing, which has yet to been defined, is unique to each character. While our exercises always differ, the general game is to pass a "thing" from character to character in a predetermined order. The "thing" is invisible and mimed with the actors' hands and body conforming to the shape, size, and weight of whatever they're receiving.
For Adam Wennick and Bronwyn Barnwell, not getting what they wanted was "frustrating and painful" while the thought of losing what Vicky Moyer was making her character Nero "paranoid."The characters were also asked to listen and react to other's receiving and giving this "thing", Kat Schmidt described certain character reactions as "triggers" to her own emotions. Every actor, during the post-exercise discussion, had interesting and unique responses to the exercise.
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