We started off our lesson, by walking around the room in neutral and pretending we were a flower opening up to the sun, when Jack said "open". We then carried on walking and when Jack said, "close" we had to get as small as we could on the floor and fold up to become tiny. We did this a few times and Jack told us that he wanted us to imagine that when we opened there was a harsh light that we were blinded by, that hurt to look at and when we closed it was us as soldiers taking our last ever breaths and slowly dying on the floor.
It looked really effective when people did it properly and I think it would work really well at the end of our piece.
We have been trying to attempt to do the Japanese precision walking, by getting into groups and Harrison was teaching us how to do the marching and when to turn. It was going ok, but we really need to concentrate and focus if it is going to work.
We also have been looking at different characters in the war, so after being soldiers, we looked at becoming rich people at home. We focused on leading from our nose, chest, stomach and hips.
When we lead from our noses we were cold, rich aristocrats who were very harsh and cruel and have a lot of money.
When we lead from our chest, we were very upper class, posh and snooty.
When we lead from our stomach, we were very fat, very greedy, rich and mean.
When we lead from our hips, we were sexy women, who were persuading and tempting the men at the bar.
We practiced doing all of these different characters, so that we could become them at the end of the piece and develop our movements to become the rich aristocrats at home, after we have all died in the war.
