Today we moved away from RADS and looked at applying slapstick comedy to a movement routine.
We watched a clip from the film 'Singin' in the rain' where the character Cosmo (played by Donald O'Connor) leads his number 'Make 'em laugh' which is simply about making the audience laugh in a performance. We observed that through his song/routine, he throws himself about a lot and he is very silly (which is the art of slapstick comedy), and all his expressions and movements and body language were very big and he committed to everything with massive energy. This made it all the more fun to watch.
This was the song we had to use for our routines. We put into groups, I was with Taylor and Owen, and we decided to do a 'love-triangle' themed routine where Owen likes me, I like Taylor and Taylor likes Owen. The initial comedy coming from the fact that Taylor is after a gay person, Owen is after a straight person and I am after a girl who wants a gay person. We also played on and made comedy out of the fact that the person each of us are after doesn't want us back at all.
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