UAL Level 3 Performing Arts Acting

The York Realist We began looking at an exert from Peter Gills 'The York Realist', which was: "I live here, I live here, you can't see that, though. You can't see it, this is where I live. Here' This created some interesting ideas about what this passage meant but also what kind of themes we could expect from the play, my first impression was that it was about someone defending their home from someone they see as an intruder. I got this due to the repetition of "I live here" and how they direct it towards whoever they are speaking to, for example they say "You can't see" which is directly spoken towards them. (The York Realist performed by the Donmar Warehouse.) After this we had to create a short scene based on our ideas around this exert. My partner and I decided to go with a homeless person staying in a hunting cabin which they thought was deserted. The owner then comes home and sees the intruder in their living r...

The Three Sisters The script that we have been given has been adapted and translated for modern use by Benedict Andrews. We began looking at the play 'The Three Sisters' by Anton Chekhov. We sat in a group and read through the first couple pages of the script and were given characters to speak as so we could get a feeling of the characters right from the beginning. This is useful as it allows us to adapt to the new roles as soon as possible. Our teacher then began explaining the events of the story and the main characters. The three sisters, Olga being the eldest at 28, Masha the middle sister at 23 and the youngest Irina at 20. As a class we spoke about what we thought were some of the main themes in the play, we decided them to be: Family Conflict Relationships Politics Dissatisfaction  Class After this we the read the first scene a couple of times and discussed the potential blocking that may occur in the scene. We decided the best way to see how it will wor...