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Discuss the intentions of your character. How were they shown?

                For the opening of our performance of teachers I was playing the role of Salty. Salty is a student at the secondary school and is the character that is performing the drama play within our play. He is a loud and energetic character that comes on to the stage with lots of energy and confidence. When Salty is first introduced into the play the audience knows straight away that he is a child that is restless and hyperactive. To display this to the audience I spoke loudly and never stopped moving. I sway my arms around and walked about when the other characters on stage with me were talking. I shouted my first line and strongly emphasized my other lines. My intentions of playing the role of this character this way were too show the audience that Salty is a mischievous character that is all ways causing trouble and annoying the people he is with. By shouting and talking to the audience and not leaving them alone showed that I was not going to be quiet and that I loved to bother everyone.  Also in the production I played the role of Nixon, a drama teacher at the school, he is an easy going teacher that has quite a laid back teaching style. I played Nixon as quite a relaxed character but in one of the scenes was depressed and angry. In the scene when Nixon was depressed I put my hands on my head and sat down facing the floor, I talked slowly and sighed multiple times. I kept shouting at the people in my class and ignoring what they were saying, then at the end of the scene I jumped to my feet and shouted and gestured to with my hands. The intention of having my hands on my head was to show the audience I was depressed and didn’t want to look/face anybody. Looking at the floor shows I was feeling down and didn’t want to be teaching in the lesson. The fact I was ignoring what the people where saying was to show that I was not focused and I was distracted by my depression. The constant shouting of the two girls in his lesson were building up to the final point of when Nixon jumps to his feet and the anger over takes his depression as I shouted at the top of my voice to tell them to put there hands on their heads and their fingers on their lips. Using hand gestures in the seen just emphasizes my anger.