In today's lesson we focused on how wanted to stage our piece, whatever the final idea be. We tried and workshopped two different types of staging, traverse and in-the-round, using the piece we had previously created in our last lesson. We were trying out a movement piece that goes on during a monologue that follows after the scene with Michael and Judith within different types of staging. We first tried the round staging and in some cases, it worked well, but a lot of the times it created limits to the piece in which we tried to adapt to the staging, but still did not work. I feel that the round staging should be used for more close and intimate pieces with a smaller cast on stage at the particular time as it is a very effective away in drawing the audience into the performance - allowing them to become emotionally attached.
We then tried the section out in traverse and we instantly found a lot more comfortable in this type of staging. It allows the ability for big, spontaneous pieces to take place with bigger casts and lots of action going on, but similar to in-the-round, allows the staging of small-scale, more intimate pieces. Personally, it straight away allowed me to become more natural with my character as an actor; in the sense that I was able to be freer. I was not worrying about focusing all my performance and delivery in favour of one place, and at the same time was not worried about it being too much for the audience to focus on - which would instantly distance them from the performance and therefore the aim and message. Instead I felt comfortable with my delivery, knowing the opposite angles I was being watched from. Doing it traverse also would allow an audience to the witness the action stage from contrasting spectrums, providing a handful of dissimilar views and opinions.
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