The Wardrobe - Week 1

6th January
- The Wardrobe

• Inspiring, makes you think about all of your own family heirlooms and what they've seen.
• The theme of the play is innocence, this play shows to prove that children know what they're going through and know how to survive they can in fact grow up when they need to be and be childish the next minute.
• After reading The Wardrobe i found that the characters I most wanted to play were Elisabeth, Cecily and Nell. Everyone wanted me to be Anne but she was too much like me and I didn't want to be playing myself I want a challenge.

- Movement went well in that we began by warming up by both releasing joints and stretching muscles, we then took the routine we had worked on as one group and were split into three separate groups and in those groups we had to come up with more varying move to add into the routine, using jumps, leaps and extra foot work.

8th January

- The Wardrobe 

• We were each given a section of the play to work on, I was paired with Yaz and we worked of the Narnia scene.
• I find the Narnia scene quite emotional as it's about and ill child's friend bringing the magic to life.
• I found it difficult to act ill at the same time as being skeptical and finding what was happening to be childish.
• Working this into a wardrobe idea made getting my head around things a lot harder to do
• After lunch we came back and worked on different scenes, ones that we ourselves wanted to try out.
• I worked on the scene four and played Anne. this was the role I originally detested because of it's likeness to my own personality, reading it through and acting the role were two very different things and I found that acting the character was a lot of fun and there was a lot i could do.

9th January

- The Wardrobe

• We started the afternoon by doing some warmup exercises to get ourselves warmed up and woken up.
• We began working on scenes that Karen put us into and had to write out a certain amount of information about the scene such as a word that sums up the scene and things about the time.
• We began by reading the scene together and then working it out into a space, we then showed our finished part to Karen who was looking at us for casting which she will be deciding next week.
• We then finished that scene and went for a break, when we all came back we were sent off to work on a new scene that karen wanted to see us in.
• I found today useful because we got to try out scenes and see how we felt about the characters ourselves.