In rehearsal today me and kate explored Touchstone and Ceilias relationship. Touchstone loves Cielia and respects her and this is due to her feistiness and ability to taunt and play with Touchstone. They are clearly very close in a fun playful way , almost like a brother and sister.
We played one scene along as we finger jousted. This really helped to get our dynamic right , kate playfully attacked me and as she did her words became alive and our dialect made a lot more sense. As i got more sass from Kate i could really react as Touchstone , being witty and playful as i wound her up.
By having our initial scene together much stronger I have been able to connect with Touchstone further and understand his wittiness.
We also looked at playing our two characters today. As we are a school girl from the 50s as well as our shakespeare character it is important that we play our character through the eyes of our school girl. Thus creating a multi textural performance. As we worked on this i began to think more about me being a girl playing a man in the play. Therefor i tried to exxagerrte masculinity and also the fun side of Touchstone. As i began to play Touchstone less refined i found that my relationships with other characters worked a lot better. Also as a play i think working on our school girls is very important , otherwise our climbing frame set , costume and 50s music is all bait irrelevant and disconnected thus making the theme weak.
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