Acting: lesson Two

23th September 2014

Hey,

Lesson 2 of acting was interesting because we had to talk about politics. Right and left politics which was harder because I don’t really understand politics very much, so it was good that we had some time talking about what it means and Brecht, who was a political worker, meaning he was motivated by his political views. His views were left wing because he followed Karl Marx which means he was more about what the people needed and wanted to make this world a better place.  We had three piece of paper which were places left, right and centre of the room, which one of us had to stand on to describe different political parties E.g. Labour, Conservative, Liberals, Tony Blair, Margaret thatcher, the idea of National Health Service, Comprehensive Education, West End theatre and Brecht.

Left winged- about the people	Centre – about both sides			Right winged- about the money
Karl max Brecht     National health service Comprehensive Education	labour party lair	West Liberals	Conserv En Margar		Hitler atives party    d theatre            et thatcher

This is a table I made to show you what we came up with for the different people we had to choose right wing or left wing politics. I understand more about politics now than I did when I first went in to the lesson and I think I am more left wing because I really do supported what the people need, more than what money is involved and the status people think they have power over others. We then went over what we learnt about Brecht techniques and about epic theatre, which help me because it reinforced my understanding. We then went on to do an activity which we had to be told a position from which we had to make a character from that position. We had one person with their hand on their back and the other person with their hand other their tummy while smoking, and I was the person with the hand on their tummy and smoking and I felt like a powerful man in a gentleman’s club because I felt pompous and secure in my position as a powerful man. So I imagined myself as a fat, controlling, untouchable old man with no hair.

My strengths from this lesson would be that I started understanding politic and I'm feel I am imaginative when it comes to thinking up ideas or characters and their life stories, my weakness would be from this lesson is that I'm slow at processes the information and because this lesson was more talking and lots of information give out I believe it wasn't my best lesson but I feel better when we started working practically regained my confidence. 

Bertolt Brecht devised the technique of Gestus, which is used emphasise to an action or gesture the actor is doing.  So for example if you give your fellow actor a push, the action is clear but not the intention or feeling behind it.  However if you add attitude to the gesture you can convey emotion and information about the role and story that is easily interpreted by the audience.

leave you with inspirationally word 

"To be a good actor you have to be something like a criminal, to be willing to break the rules to strive for something new."
                                    Nicolas Cage