150 words on Non Verbal Communication for Streetcar

Use of non verbal communication is a very intense performance practice, without the use of words acting becomes a lot harder to accomplish. I started with the scene in which Stanley patrols into his house drunk and causes quite an up rawr in the house aggressively stopping the good vibe and finally hitting Stella. 

When thinking about communicating this without the use of voice I knew that movement was to be very important and the use of facial expressions. I therefore create a very heavy walk and threw myself about much like a Bear. I also created a very wide face opening my eyes as wide as I could, blowing up my cheeks slightly and then biting very hard. I was charging around much like his zoomorphic animal figure of a bull and was finally settled down towards the end.

150 words on Movement

Movement is used in drama to help create a character and to express the emotions of a character and themes of a peice. We created still images that were to connote "trapped". My group and I created images of jail and a mental asylum. 

We then took scene 4 from "Street Car" The poker scene. Here Stanley, Steve, Pablo and Mitch are playing poker. Mitch clearly doesn't feel comfotable and to show this I, as Mitch, became small and very on edge using quick pacy movement to show that I was promt to leave. Mitch also was quite fragile due his sick mother therefore again used fast restricted movements to show aggression but attempting to remain calm.