Mr Maclean lesson 1

During our first lesson with Mr. Maclean we started by standing around the room and imagined a grid on the floor and began to walk in straight lines along the grid in a neutral emotion. Mr. Maclean then continued to give us different emotions to enact as we were walking along the grid. He used many words such as “Scared” and we needed to emphasise our non-verbal communication skilled to portray each emotion. With the emotion scared I widened my eyes and became more jumpy looking around to see if anybody was too close and acted introvert through my posture which was slightly hunched and shoulders curled inwards highlighting my unease. I tended to hide my face and clench my fists or use one arm bent across my chest to rub inside the other arms elbow. We were also instructed to interact with the other people around the space as we came closer to them and turn 90 degrees if and when we ran into them.

Soon after this we were split into groups and told to annotate our devised performance quote "A cage is still a cage even if you cannot see the bars", my group consisted of: Tara, Pamela, Ariane, and Ramon.

We began by writing a group interpretation all inputting our ideas and coming up with as many controversial and/or regular issues to do with the quote. We came up with many but in the end settled on 3 of them; ‘Disability, personality disorders and being a spy’.