Scene 2 - 3/11/16

In today's lesson, we began to work on scene 2 of the play. In this scene I say a lot more than the first, so I found it easier to act in and didn't feel awkward. Eilif is boasting about how he killed a load of farmers and I think he exaggerates the story a bit to make him look better and show off - he is very egotistical. The scene also then sees Eilif reunited with his mother after some years apart due to Eilif being in the war - we see here that Eilif tough man look is just an act and he is really no different to another soldier because mother courage clearly has the dominant hand in this part of the scene; she slaps him round the face and inflicts pain on Eilif - this dominance could also be just because she is his mother, though.
At the point where Eilif is telling the general and the chaplain of how he was 'butchering peasents', I decided to go very over the top with it, and make it look like my character is re-living the moment, all to add comical effect and to add more of an egotistical nature to the character.