Evaluation

I think our final performance of Fugee went really well. I felt as though I was able to fully get into my character and hold that throughout the play. Our warm up exercises helped me do this as they allowed me to think deeply about the walk, voice and different aspects of my character. I was also glad as I remembered all my lines and cues. However if we were to do it again I would want to spend more time working on the voice of my character as this is something I didn't fully manage to explore and my final result wasn't completely different to my normal voice.

Blocking

One of the key thinks I've learnt during Fugee is the importance of blocking, because we use blocks in different scenes and they have to be taken on and off I have realised how helpful it is to write it down and put it in your script. I have also found it useful to write next to scene titles how my character is feeling in this scene and specific movements I should do to show this.

Characterisation exercises

Developing our character:

in today's lesson we worked on the habits and voices of our character. The voice exercise, In which we chose a line of ours and explored different ways of saying it, I really tried to work on the sarcastic and urban side of roza. I did this by slightly lowering her voice and also dragging out her vowels. The exercise helped me do this as it allowed me to say the line over and over until I found which way it sounded best.

We also worked on the walk and habits of our character, we did this by getting together with other people also playing our role and discussing with them what we believed our character would do. Originally me and Willa discussed her bitting her nails however we then realised this would make our voices on stage hard to understand so we changed it to her clicking her knuckles and scratching her head. I found this very useful as it allowed me and willa to make our versions of Roza similar.

rozas journey to england

 Its dark, so dark I'm wondering if I've gone blind or will I ever see daylight again. If I do see light again it won't be the same it won't be Iraq's light it will be England's. the air is full of fumes and food that's being transported, just like me. The difference is its supposed to be here, I'm not. I can hear boxes rattling and the sound of a plane driver somewhere near as the plane shakes I hold on to the edges of the bag that I've been stuffed inside of. I've never been on a plane, before now and technically this isn't a proper plane because there are no seats or windows. But its worth it because although I might deny it I do want to go to england yeah wow when I think about it its crazy that tomorrow I could, hopefully, be wallking around london with the queen, well maybe not the queen but wow. A lot of people ask me why I want to go but all I can think is why would I want to stay in a place where I have no family and I'm not safe. They say home is where your heart is and mine is not with iraq, maybe its not with england either but I may as well see. I think all these things whilst I sit here in this bag thinking just thinking. And then I hear it, the sound that allowed me to breathe out I breath I felt like I'd been holding forever, the sound of the wheels connecting with the ground, a new ground and hopefully a safe ground.

rozas journey to england

 Its dark, so dark I'm wondering if I've gone blind or will I ever see daylight again. If I do see light again it won't be the same it won't be Iraq's light it will be England's. the air is full of fumes and food that's being transported, just like me. The difference is its supposed to be here, I'm not. I can hear boxes rattling and the sound of a plane driver somewhere near as the plane shakes I hold on to the edges of the bag that I've been stuffed inside of. I've never been on a plane, before now and technically this isn't a proper plane because there are no seats or windows. But its worth it because although I might deny it I do want to go to england yeah wow when I think about it its crazy that tomorrow I could, hopefully, be wallking around london with the queen, well maybe not the queen but wow. A lot of people ask me why I want to go but all I can think is why would I want to stay in a place where I have no family and I'm not safe. They say home is where your heart is and mine is not with iraq, maybe its not with england either but I may as well see. I think all these things whilst I sit here in this bag thinking just thinking. And then I hear it, the sound that allowed me to breathe out I breath I felt like I'd been holding forever, the sound of the wheels connecting with the ground, a new ground and hopefully a safe ground.

rozas christmas

Christmas is the worst time here because Christmas is all about family and giving. But were all just stuck here with no family and the kids here aren't the kind that would give. The dinner is cooking downstairs this is the only time of year people don't fight over the food because no one can injure the managers dried turkey or what ever meat it is he's claiming to be turkey.

The presents we get are donated not ones we've asked for or want like every other child, there not wrapped up with bows or in nice paper there in shoe boxes that are collected in schools.

Everyone will get called downstairs in a moment to watch a speech by a queen that isn't the queen of where were from but of the people in England and she will talk about the people in England who are English not the ones that have escaped here and miss home.

Thoughts, feelings and appearance exercise

I found this exercise very useful in understanding my character because I was able to go through the script and work out how my character may be feeling or what she may be thinking when saying a line. This allowed me to think about how I would then channel this thoughts and feelings into my delivery of that line.

Also I did some of the exercise with willa who is also playing roza. This allowed us to think about how we were going to act as roza so we could make our versions of the roll similar.