LABAN EFFORTS AND WOYZECK

Today we did lots of work on LABAN. I've found over the last two years that I actually love working with the LABAN efforts and should therefore use them more. 'The place is cursed, you know, Andres' now has a float, slash and a punch in it. I think it works well in refreshing patterns that you've learnt during the process and ultimately enables you to find new things. 

I've also worked out some new Laban efforts for the scene 'stab the shewolf'. Woyzeck is completely crazed by this point and therefore this should be influencing his physic. Exploring the scenes with the different efforts has certainly secured a new realm of range in my performance. It's interesting also just to see how an effort effects the objective and therefore action that you are playing. How is 'to patronise' different as a slash to a dab. 

The past few weeks I haven't commented on my uncertainty about my scenes with Andres. Exploring them with different efforts has definitely made us find new things in them.

Once receiving the notes from our first run in the new theatre, I feel as if the opening few scenes had instantly improved. Finding new ways of saying the lines and playing my actions has been vital to explore Mike Alfred's 'different every night' techniques. 

Running the scene with the captain, a close shave, was very interesting with LABAN efforts involved. I found that there's was a lot of 'to float', to 'push', at one point 'to punch' and sometimes even 'to slice'. I love the fact that this was found as its given a dimension to our relationship within the scene and out, that we had yet to found. I think there's a massive amount of underline tensions between these characters that needs to be felt.