First Duologue 'Mr and Mrs Iger'

• All lessons are assessed
• I found that even though I am quite petite you can use your arms and position of legs to show that you are more imposing so looks more dominant. For example, when playing Mrs Iger, I sat with my arms out across the other chair and legs out in front of me to give me a bigger presence so that I was not just dependent on my voice to make me seem a louder and more overpowering character.I felt by adopting this I was more in character as it contrasted the feebleness of Mr Iger as, although he was physically taller than me, his hand positions and hunched back showed that he was inferior and that the character of Mrs Iger 'wears the trousers' in the relationship.
• I also experimented with doing a northern accent and found that some sentences it was quite consistent and others it was hard to keep the accent flowing. This showed me I need to work on the pronunciation of certain letters and sounds when doing accents in order to make them more convincable. I also found it easier to do the accent when slowing down the speed of the lines.
• I also learnt how pauses can be very effective. I already knew that having slight pauses is a good way to grab the audience's attention however found that it can also add emphasis to what you are saying. For example, for Mrs Iger's monologue at the start of the piece, I used pauses to help dignify what I was saying and also felt that the slower speed helped emphasise the presence of the character I was trying to portray. This is because it shows that Mrs Iger does not need to include lots of information to get her point across but can just use short sentences in her loud voice to get her point across.
• We found it difficult to stage the part of the duologue where Mr Iger has to pretend to push through people. We experimented with levels and even going through the audience but in the end found it best to use levels and different lengths and speeds of strides.