Two & Bed (Methuen Modern Plays) (Modern Classics)

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The second image I used was of Roy slapping Lesley. Roy’s body language indicated that he was being very aggressive and controlling, his arms are tensed and he has a contorted and angry face with hard eyes and clenched teeth. Lesley’s body language shows that she is giving in to Roy, by hunching low and cowering. She has her arms raised to try and protect her face. I did this to show that Roy is in control and being abusive to Lesley, it also shows that Roy doesn’t treat Lesley like a person but more like property. The spoken thoughts I used were “I was supposed to be happy, we got married had our honeymoon, got a house, but I am far from happy. He keeps hitting me, what can I do?” My initial response to the text was, it is an interesting story and I enjoyed it. It seemed to be centered on different stages of relationships. The underlying message seemed to be that trust is the key in all good relationships. It should appear that he’s going to get out of bed to really kill somebody. Then Clare wakes. She puts her arm on him.)

From doing this explorative strategy it helped me understand what happens as couples get older and how old age can affect people. This gave me a more in depth look at the struggle the old women was going through, looking after her immobilized husband and resisting the temptation of going off with the butcher.There were so many things I wanted to say, stream-of-consciousness things, designs and patterns while listening to music. I felt I might be able to say [them] if I had an unending canvas.”— pioneering experimental animator Mary Ellen Bute In the next work shop we looked at the explorative strategy of Narration, mainly looking at Self Narration as a technique. Self narration is when the character being focused on is saying what they are doing as they do them, also they could talk about memories thoughts and feelings, this gives a hint to the audience as to what might happen later or a deeper look into the focused upon character. Mitch Berg on “What’s the difference between an exile and an expatriate? It seems to me that an Englishman in France is an expat, but an Irishman is an exile.”— Irish poet Derek Mahon

CLARE. Don’t worry. I still love you, that’s left. I keep on seeing faces, like me dad’s, me mum’s, me dad’s again. I still want to cry when I see me dad’s dismantled face. He lost his last job you know. Just think one day there might be the last job on earth. And everyone will come out to see the man lose it. They’ll all watch as he comes up to his last hour. The last hooter blow whoooooooooo oh oooooooo ooooooooooooooooo I’m being corny now, in’t a Joey? Oh my it’s white in here behind the eyes, so mist. I don’t think the old man is the type of person to find someone else because he considers his wife to be his soul mate, even after death. The first Frozen Image I did was of their wedding day. Roy had his arms around Lesley as they were cutting the wedding cake. They were looking into each others eyes and smiling happily. Roy’s body language was neutral so as to show he had no control over Lesley yet. I did this to show that they might have started out as a happy couple, even if Roy had some doubts, shown in his spoken thought. From using this explorative I have learnt about looking below the surface of a character and looking from a characters point of view. I have also learnt how an affair can affect all parties involved, either by destroying a relationship, losing one’s moral codes or making one addicted to risk.From doing this explorative strategy I have learnt that there can be a lot of conflict in a relationship, also some people may not necessarily marry for love, but rather for money or social status, this seams to be the case with the Igors.

But near the end both of the stronger characters take control again. This was to show that Roy and Mrs. Igor have stronger personalities then Mr. Igor and Lesley. As the Landlord and Landlady's painful story slowly unfolds throughout the evening, a series of regulars visit the pub - all played by Moorhouse and Elliot. To help me self narrate my character in this scene, I looked at what she said in the play to get me in the frame of mind of the old woman. I believe this to be a mind frame filled with regret concerning her husband and of inner conflict as to whether she should run off with someone else or to stay with her husband. The scenes we looked at were Roy and Lesley and Mr. and Mrs. Igor. We choose these scenes because they have strong characters and they both look at faithfulness; Roy is trying to enforce Lesley to stay with him and Mrs. Igor is clearly being unfaithful because she states that she loves big men and she describes her husband as “Mr. feeble”

The Old man then again slows the pace down to his level and tells the audience how he loves his wife dearly and his light hearted approach that one day he will die and be with her again. The next explorative strategy I used was hot seating. Hot seating is when a chosen character from the play is put into a chair and is asked questions by someone outside of the play. I have also learnt that Lesley might not have thought through marrying Roy at the time and is now not strong enough to leave him.