Friday's Work

in addition to reviewing Act I of Comedy of Errors, as I indicated in class, I'd like you and a partner (probably) to choose a one minute portion of the reading that you can perform together. It need not be memorized, but you should be familiar with your lines so you can read it glibly, without having to labor. Otherwise you'll be too distracted to be physical at all! Then, your focus should be on embodiment of the lines. This MAY mean comedy and even slapstick. If you think you can incorporate some of that into the second scene, for example, great. Imagining HOW that tone would be established early in the play is the key. Scene one, after all, is not funny. It's there that the possibility of death and the "time line" we discussed last week are established. Within that threat, however, we are to create humor. Let's see (and I do mean SEE) what you can do!