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Evaluation of all three classes. Volpone – Personally, I did not enjoy reading the play Volpone at all, it wasn’t a play that I could read and think ‘I could imagine playing this character’. I found it pretty difficult to understand and even harder to work with. However, despite my dislike towards the text, the lessons we did with Evi were helpful, we explored things that you wouldn’t normally with classical texts like animalistic motion capture movement and different voices for different characters etc. Some lessons that Evi set us I personally found a bit challenging but that’s purely based on my own confidence and my own personal issues. I felt that I did try with things that usually would make me uncomfortable and although I LOVE comedy trying to BE funny in such an unfunny text is so difficult for me. It was like trying to get blood out of a stone for me, it wasn’t happening and that knocked my confidence slightly because I couldn’t seem to make this text funny. I am glad...

CHARLOTTE HOWES LOGBOOK FROM PERFORMANCE SKILLS CLASSICAL THEATRE Volpone Tuesday 16 th January – To begin with we all sat in a circle and discussed the plot of Volpone, this was useful as it allowed us all to fully understand the play before we began to tackle scenes within it. We also discussed the themes within the play which were things like greed, temptation etc. We vaguely talked about how each character resembled animals within the play and how this could be reflected within our final performances. We then partnered up (I was with Emma) and we were given a scene per pair to look at and perform to the class with the script, this was a short activity. After we had shown it to the class we were given the task to make the scene improvised, without scripts and to use contemporary language to help us understand what was properly going on within the scene. This was a lot of fun to perform and it was really interesting to see how other groups interpreted their scenes too.   T...