In todays lesson we worked on creating the atmosphere of a busy London street, we first start with a sound scape using noises created by only us actors that you would typically hear in London, things such as cars, road works, small stall owners shouting deals at you, people calling for taxis. Then we went into the actual hustle and bustle of London and had Christopher in the middle of all the action surrounded by tourists, stall owners and people late for work. We came to this scene by splitting the class in two and we both had the same task of creating the hustle and bustle of London, my group came up with a more stall owner harassing Christopher and tourists based scene where as the other group came up with similar things but they had a sound scape, so we combined the two and came up with that whole scene. This scene enables people to use a variety of skills ranging from multi rolling to using their voice.

This week we have mostly been running through Curious Incident, but I have five rolls to play, even though some of them only have a few lines I want to make sure the audience know I am a different person every time they see me, to do this I was having to think more on my body language as well as my voice (changing my accent or they way I speak) for instance when I am the information I need to make sure I don't have the same characteristics as when I'm the punk which is one of my hardest roles to play as it is a complete contrast to my actual personality.
  This week we have done some primary into what its like to be Christopher, we did this by remembering our way to school exactly, we then had one person tell us their route to school in detail, then we realised that all the stuff we don't see or notice Christopher would, he would count the amount of red cars and if there were a lot of red cars it would be a good day, he would probably know exactly how many cracks there are in the pavement on the way to school, this made us all understand the character Christopher a lot more and hopefully helped Carl who is playing Christopher develop his character further.

This weeks work was pretty good as we finished blocking act two and now we are well on the way to cleaning and perfecting everything. I would say my strength this week was being able to have a clear change in character by changing my voice, next I need to work on my body language so then my performance is as professional as it can get. my weakness this week was probably lack of confidence and lack of concentration, due to the fact I only have a few small roles to play I am mostly sitting on a chair at the side for the end of act two which is a little boring to do during the lesson but its not all about me its about us as a company and the performance, now that everything is set I'm sure we will be cleaning a lot of the things that the whole company is in.

My recommendations for developing the play further are that everyone commits to their characters (including me) and really makes sure there are clear differences form character to character. Now that everything is set and we know where we are going we can start working on what we are saying and how we are saying it to develop the performance and make it seem as real as possible.