In my class’ production of Teechers, set in a rough comprehensive school in England, I played Hobby in the opening scene. Hobby is one of the three main characters who perform a play of their final year at the school to their year group in their Leavers’ Assembly. The main three are made up of: Salty, an over-excited sixteen year old boy who likes spraying graffiti on the walls of the school; Gail, the overly flirty and very pretty sixteen year old girl who develops a crush on their drama teacher Mr Nixon in her final year at the school; and Hobby, their uncaring friend who lacks motivation to do anything whether it’s work or every taking pride in her appearance and who eats constantly throughout the play. My intentions when playing Hobby were to show she is supportive of her friends whilst still being very uncaring and lacking in enthusiasm. In the opening scene the main three burst on stage to begin their play to their year group. Both Gail and Salty moved at a very fast pace and talked very quickly as if they were excited but, when I played Hobby, I entered very slowly and reluctantly to show the contrast in enthusiasm between me and the other two characters. I also used a very low voice when I spoke because I was trying to show the contrast between Gail, who’s very flirtatious and has a high pitched voice, and Hobby who just doesn’t care about trying to look attractive at all and so isn’t flirtatious like Gail. I tried to make Hobby sound really bored in everything she said so that it looked to the audience that she really didn’t want to be there. She was also eating chocolate bars constantly. This is because I wanted to show, unlike most teenage girls, Hobby is comfortable with eating loads of unhealthy food because she doesn’t care if she gets fat. I think the beginning scene in which I played Hobby went well because it showed she was a very reluctant type of person in comparison to Gail and Salty who both had loads of energy and moved at a very fast pace.
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