Character Corridor

In this exercise, we listed six words to describe our character. This is what i listed for Thea:
desperate, feble, intelligent, kind, ignorant
We then formed two lines facing each other with a walkway in-between. We first saw Will walk through the 'character corridor' as himself, and we called out different things we say in his normal walk. If he looked depressed, you would say "depressed" and so on. After analysing his normal walk, he then began to walk as character and using his six words he wrote to describe Louvborg, we shouted out what he needed more of. For example, one of his words was "alcoholic", if Will wasn't walking enough like an alcoholic, you could shout it out, and he would try to adapt his physicality to the voiced opinion on what he was lacking.

I think this exercise was so interesting and helpful, as it really made you strip back a physicality of a character and notice even small things they might do, that could change the whole image of them on stage. Noticing every aspect of what makes the character, the character helps. When becoming Thea, i need to remind myself of those words and adjust my physicality to match.