Drive it!

Something we need to improve on is really driving our words throughout the play. One way to do this would be to maintain energy throughout the play and continually throw that energy from one person to the next without letting that energy drop otherwise the loss in energy would replace what's going around. This would be boring for the audience and ruin all our hard work.

One exercise that we've been doing to improve this was to say someones name then say a line from the play in an energised way, then they'd pick someone and say a line etc. If there was a pause or lack of enthusiasm then we'd all have to start again. 

During the first few times we played this we weren't very good but perhaps this was because we had a lack of learning lines. But as the weeks went on, we got progressively better until we could continually do it until being asked to stop. 

It was really nice to notice as a class the improvement we'd made but it was clear that the scene that we needed to focus putting this energy into was the last scene in the play which is also the longest. Because of the length of the last scene it did become difficult to maintain that continual power that drove us through the previous scenes.