IMPROVEMENTS AND CHANGES (Godot)

I think during the rehearsal process I could’ve worked on was my vocality. I had a lot of the key characteristics down and thoroughly rehearsed the relationship with my new partner, but I found I lacked the voice of Estragon and felt very much similar to my own voice. This would’ve been quite effective to learn the voice of Estragon as I had matched the level of enthusiasm and energy that he commonly demonstrates throughout the scene, and would’ve overall made the role more believable. To carry on, I think I landed the energy very well with Estragon and bounced quite nicely off the very monotone and low energy that Vladimir had in our scene. The contrary between the two was quite effective and something we had rehearsed thoroughly. I think an area my duo and could’ve worked on was timing, however. There were times when I missed the comedic timing of a line and vice versa, something that was quite bad for our scene as momentum and pace were something we initially realised when rehearsing the scene. Speaking of which, one of the first things I did when I got my script was analyse the meaning behind the lines to see what Estragon was implying but not saying. This was crucial for the process as a lot of the text is very hard to understand and confusing if you don’t know the meaning behind it.