Lesson

This lesson again focused on Mike Alfreds and improvisation however they weren't as gamey as before.

This day the class was split into halves. The first half went and their task was to do something for someone with an objective behind it such as to surprise them, to prove they can keep a promise or to get their own back on someone. Most people did their task as a favour or as a chore and they were things like making scrapbooks, folding clothes, etc. Caroline started to change things such as the weather, whether they were inside or outside, and where they were. From watching other people I noticed that when they started their tasks, they were casual about it and got on with it but the things that were changed worked for only some people. For others it made no sense.
From my experience, It did start to become at bit abnormal. I was washing dishes and all of a sudden I was washing the dishes outside in the scorching heat but I was using a sink. I think if things were changed on our individual situations, it would have been better.

We also did another exercise where we worked in pairs with a shared objective but no speech. My partner was Harrison and we were putting together our new ikea bed. We were given different points of concentration and these would be the weather and how it affected our situation, a shared point of concentration such as we just had an argument, a private point of concentration given to one of the partners such as trying to seduce the other and once the exercise was done (if you did it in front of the class), everyone else had to guess your point of concentration.

I liked these exercises as they helped us with our improvisation skills and this time we were able to settle into our idea and expand it slowly. We were introduced to the ideas one by one and we were given time to adjust to them unlike before. with the second exercise I preferred it to the one from the last lesson because I got to build a relationship with my partner and think about what would be surrounding us, where we were, etc. The first exercise was beneficial because we could look at how normal tasks would be undertaken in different circumstances and this can help in the future when facing plays that play around with mundane tasks.