Mother courage scene 11 18/10/16

In today's lesson, we were split into two groups to work on scene 11. I was with Hugh, Callum, Alice, Joe and Tyler. When being briefed about the scene, we were told to make a performance of it - hence why we were given a whole double lesson to do it. We made sure we focussed on energy and comedy, and keeping the audience engaged a all times. I think by being given a whole double to do this, we were able to easily keep the audience engaged because we became more familiar with the script and were able to try various ways in which to play our parts and we felt more comfortable in our roles - in turn, this helps the audience to follow what's going on and thus keeping them engaged. I believe with this scene it was much easier to bring out the comedy because it is very hectic and loud, and there is the opportunity for stupid kind of slap stick humour because of some of the lines and the way you can play some of the characters. It was a classic Brechtirian scene - it is very funny in a dark way as it Kattrin dies at the end but the whole scene is very funny. The scene is about Catholic soldiers threatening a farm - whom Mother Courage had left Kattrin with - to show them the path into town. When they go, Kattrin tries to draw attention by drumming up in the watchtower really loudly, much to the soldiers rage. I think we did this scene very well as we really did bring out the dark comedy and it was very entertaining - we used the full space of the stage and we increased out voice dynamics as it got more hectic.