Rotten rhymes and Mother Courage scene 3 13/10/16

In today's lesson, were given about 30 minutes to continue working on our Brechtirian rotten rhymes - unfortunately, we lost the second page to the poem so we had to kind of improvise. We decided to have to majority of the poem narration, but acted as if it's dialogue so that it still feels like a proper play/performance, but also so the audience still get that sense of Brechtirian atmosphere. We were then told to do scene 3 of Mother Courage, but with the same amount of energy we had doing the rotten rhymes - from doing the first task, then applying it to the scene, I finally realised what makes Mother Courage so funny: the energy. So when we were rehearsing the scene, we really focussed on the energy of the scene, moving a lot more, hand gestures and the like. But mainly, we decided to use a lot more space of the stage. I was with Taylor (played Mother Courage) and Joe (The cook) and I played The Chamberlain. Whilst playing the Chamberlain, I decided to play him as a very neutral character, and very chilled and relaxed at first glance - which is exactly how he is supposed to be played so I was told by our teacher. The addition of all this energy made the scene a lot more fun to do and watch, so in the future when working on Mother Courage, I will make sure I put in a lot of energy.