CHANGES FOR PARTNER AND I (Godot)

The next area I and my partner began focusing on was reactions. We felt that a lot of the performance was very stationary and unrealistic and that it was more like we were just leading the lines off a script. We first began by thinking about how the characters would react in context to how far we are in the play, and what sort of reactions they’ve had before in other scenes. We began practising different reactions throughout the scene and seeing what felt both realistic for the character and entertaining, which in the long term helped significantly. We developed this further by fluctuating the amount of time on each reaction, delaying some very heavily to fifteen seconds long,  whilst others to instant responses. This, alongside the initial changes to reactions, really helped us develop the scene further.