Bizarre Concepts

I didnt get a chance to say this in class but I found it a particularly bizarre concept that in Lament the actors were being asked to speak about themselves as people rather than characters. At times they must have felt incredibly vulnerable because this was being played whilst they were onstage.

Personally, when performing, I like detaching completely from myself as a person allowing me to become the character, however, in the aforementioned scenario this would not be easily achieved. This leads me to think that the final performance will be a lot more personal that anything else that I have been involved in before. An interesting concept!

Philippa Thomas