Richard Maxwell Project

I really enjoyed yesterday's lesson purely for the reason that I feel that I have a slightly better grip on Maxwell's style of acting (although i do still find it hard!). Like most people, in the first few lessons i was finding it extremely difficult to perform characters without speaking in a monotone voice and thus sounding like a robot!

I found it useful to watch Caveman because when reading Maxwell's plays, i find it hard to imagine how they would be performed. I discovered that pauses seemed to be important within the play, often creating comedy. For example, when the two men were sat eating at the table for several minutes with a blank expression on their face.

I agree with Laura about the individual work being effective, as it really helped us to experiment with Maxwell's idea of showing emotion rather than actually inhabiting it.

Lauren :)

// posted by danrebellato @ 4:43 AM