10/14/09

Yesterday Britania and I were performing parts of our monologues for each other trying it with different qualities of movement in our gestures. I chose to do the same part of the monologue with different qualities. Of any of them Britania said she thought that flicking looked the best, I thougtht that was odd, because when I think of flicking I think of it as a casual flighty thing, and this monologue is a very heady very weighty monologue. But I think the flicking lent it a sort of nervous
quality that played more interestingly than heavy gestures would. That was probably the most beneficial exercise yet. It helped to see how the qualities played for parts of the monologue and decide which ones were the most interesting choices. It was much easier I thought than trying to identify my character with an element or an animal, although, being a wolf and ferret really did help.