Today miss Cordell wasn't in so we had my brother, Tom - an ex-A level PA student, cover us. He wanted us to back to scene 1 so he could see it and give us feedback and criticism. The main thing he emphasised on was adding energy and comedy to it - he said when we need to move about more but with purpose instead of just sitting or randomly walking in a small radius; for example on my line "Mama, can I punch this ass hole in the mouth please?", Tom suggested that I get up and start towards the recruitment officer but then mother courage holds me back and pushes me back to where I was; I think this starts to show that Eilif thinks he's tough, thinking he can stand up to an army officer, so mother courage stops him before he gets hurt. Also, a few lines down, mother courage saying to the recruitment officer "watch out, he's got a knife sheathed in his boot!" Which shows she likes to big up Eilif a lot and make him look dangerous, so I suppose she doesn't really help with his egotistical nature.
This lesson really helped me grasp that really self-centred trait of Eilif and being able to apply it to more of the play. I am also struggling to uphold my Scottish accent because sometimes I slip into like a traditional farmer accent, then back to Scottish, so I really need to do further work on this independently at home.
This lesson really helped me grasp that really self-centred trait of Eilif and being able to apply it to more of the play. I am also struggling to uphold my Scottish accent because sometimes I slip into like a traditional farmer accent, then back to Scottish, so I really need to do further work on this independently at home.
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