Theatre Studies lesson 20/9/13

In todays lesson we focused on making our performances believable to the audience. We did this by creating a situation in which we had to walk through a door. I chose to create a situation where a man had lost his car keys and was late to work so needed to find them in a hurry. It became apparent that what I was portraying to the audience was not believable and as I was forced to keep repeating myself from the beginning, it was frustrating but I began to understand what our teacher was trying to do. I had to fully believe what I was doing because if I didn't the audience would also not believe what I was doing and that is key in Stanislavski's methods.