Today we worked on off text improvisations with The Tempest characters, and I was paired with Dan. I play Miranda and Dan plays Fernando. Daniel gave me and Dan the scenario of 'the first date'.
We instantly knew that this exercise was a springboard and allowed us to put our characters into different scenarios to allow us to get to know them and create some what of a background and build relationships with other characters. When talking about the scenario, Dan and I realised how much of a different background our characters were from; Ferdinand was this guy who had so much experience of the world and women and the attention of ladies, whereas Miranda had never come across any other man other than her father or Caliban, so this was a whole new world for her and she had never even been on a date or even took pride in her appearance as she never had any idea of how a lady is supposed to look or dress. So when performing the scene, we made these points obvious. Miranda was fascinated by Ferdinand although she was very shy, and Ferdinand was doing all the talking and the asking of all the questions. This exercise made me realise a lot about my character as she hadn't really been in any other environment other than her home or with her father so anything else was completely extraordinary to her, and her relationship with the father was the strongest and only ever relationship she had ever had.
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