Character development

I feel as though I have worked hard towards developing all of my characters over the past few weeks. 

My main character; Butcher, I've taken so much time really thinking about his gests and what he wants in each scene. 

Like in scene two, I wasn't entirely sure how he would act in that situation. 

However, now I've thought about my gests and what his main objection is, I've decided that he's quite creepy and can/thinks he can be quite manipulative and that he'd do anything for a bit of cash in his pockets. 

So to portray this, I've made him really touchy-feely with Dogsborough in scene two and really over friendly and confident. 

My other character; Young Dogsborough, I've tried to make him quite funny, by making him really alert of everything and 

given him a squeakier voice then all of the other characters in the play. His character reminds me of the cartoon character, Scrappy-Doo, because in scene 4, Young Dogsborough tries to stand up to Roma, but gets too scared and pipes down. This remind me of Scrappy-Doo because Scrappy is always trying to act harder than he is and never gets anywhere with it. 

I've had a lot of trouble with The Woman, in scene 9, because I feel really self-conscious having to act so dramatic and upset on stage on my own. 

I also wasn't sure how to act it. 

However, when I performed it to the class, I didn't do what they said too, I improvised a bit, and it felt a lot more natural. I was stood up- stumbling around, screaming, shouting and crying for help. This for me, for my character was a lot better than crawling on the floor because I felt very limited as to what I could do.

As a starting point I used Stanislavski technique of keeping everything naturalistic, then when I got used to this, and comfortable with it I made it bigger and more stylised, so it was more Brechtian, I also used the Artaud technique of pushing myself to the limit, so I could make my performance more raw and real.