We have been working on our first scenes for some time now. Most of the work has been done independently, without any one really giving us feedback on our characters, blocking or the scene in general, from an outside perspective, so it was good that we got this time to show all of our scenes to Jerry-Lee, and get some comments on what we should further develop in our scenes.
On my first scene, most of the feedback was directed for each individual, so I will be focusing on the comments that I got, but first I should point out that there was a part in our scene, where the women of the playhouse are 'harassing' Otway, about showing their breasts on the stage too much. What we have done, was gathering around Otway, to intimidate him and tease him, but this seemed too clumped up on the stage. This was a good point, since we have discussed it before in the group, but have not been sure weather or not to change it, but this certainly gave us the push to do something about it. Perhaps it would be ise to have some of the characters spread around a bit, bringing the attention to Otway and my character Nell on the middle, since it is Nell specifically who is trying to get her other talents on the spotlight on the stage.
Jerry-Lee also said that in this scene my french accent was very good, which I found quite funny, since I was trying to over act it a bit, to make Nell's comedic sense shine trough even when she is playing.
A comment, that I was given from both of the scenes was about my stage presence, and how "Heta was still coming trough the character". I was told that I need to be more in character. I didn't quite understand, in which way did I need to further develop Nell, but now thinking of it, maybe going over her natural tempo again could help. Perhaps I need to bring her tempo-rhythm a bit up, to get that confidence of hers to shine and simultaneously push my own nature into hiding. Jerry-Lee also suggested that I should look into learning cockney-accent, since Nell is from the London area. This could help me with coming in touch with the character more, and giving her lines the flow they were written for. Still, I am a bit hesitant to go trough and do this, since I will not be the only one playing Nell. I do not think the other ones are doing a cockney accent, and so me suddenly bursting out on the stage with a full on cockney speech would be some what inconsistent. I can still try to adapt elements of cockney into my way of speaking.
During my second groups discussion, I also pointed out, that there should something done with our blocking. Right now it seems a bit bland, as the characters are mostly in a straight line, rather than using the space to our advantage.
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