“We Don’t Think You Have Fun To Ask Your Husband To Suck Your Bottom.”

Steph, Lee, Mike and Duncan presented the scene in which the wife gets stung by a wasp. 

It was bad: “Horrible - you can’t do it...not light at all...they hate each other...like this, it’s impossible.”

“[They] don’t love enough and she is not crazy enough.”

“We need a game between the two protagonists.” = She claim’s there’s a lot of pain - he claim’s there’s no pain.

Philippe ended up working with the group for most of the class. Trying to bring the scene and the actors alive. He ended up getting Steph to yell at and criticise Philippe (which was easy because she was pissed off) and then when he hit his drum she would say her text in the same tone. Trying to find “the pleasure to yell” but “she’s boring...we don’t see [her] fun.”

“We don’t think you have fun to ask your husband to suck your bottom.”

“If you want to be an actor, you have to be charming.”

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I’d been feeling tired and unmotivated and anti-social all day (all week actually) and didn’t really want to go to school (but I did) and told myself to get up and present a Shakespeare monologue I’ve just learn of Puck from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. I was really nervous and not 100% confident with my lines, I got up, and started the scene (I’d decided earlier to try it in the style of a conspiracy TV show host - as something to offer) but after two lines I blanked. I pulled out and said it’s not the day for me to do it. I shouldn’t have got up in the first place. Too tired. Next time, I’ll try to only get up when I want to, because when I get up when I don’t want to it’s a disaster waiting to happen!

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Ben tried "To Be Or Not To Be" again today with Thomas playing drums behind him. Philippe got him to do it as a grand RSC actor, a rapper, and a Vaudeville actor. 


"You have to show the many possibilities to have fun with Hamlet."