The first step…
So today I took my first step in getting back into acting.
well, my third step if you count deciding to do it and registering for a course.
The step today was turning up to the first sessionin said course. We did a few small exercises and got to know each other. There were:
Matt, who leads the course.
Pat, a lovely lady, recently retired,
Liam, a guy about my age who didn’t seem too into the acting and reminded me of Lloyd from high school.
Claire, a lovely girl with slight overbite.
Ana, a starlett in the making, rather good at the acting especially in the ‘who me?’ exercise.
Kevin, who (if I remember correctly) teaches acting and who is good at tap dancing.
Burnie, who is taking a drama course at Hull college having previously done chemistry.
People I can’t remember:
Ellie? who recently graduated to teach the course.
Claire’s friend (carmen?)
Burnie’s friend.
A- who lives one street over from me, is french and previously did chemistry.
lady with red hair.
Pat’s friend.
We did a few exercises:
Hi, my name is ‘X’ and these are my friends (names of people who went before you)
Find out as much as you can about one of the others (i got Pat, who loves Spern point, a bird sanctuary)
Number ‘X’, (Who, me?) yes you, (not me,) then who? (Number ‘X’)
Slap, Clap, Click, Click
improvise a small scene.
repeat improvisation with numbers.
repeat improvisation with colours
All in all, was a fun hour and a half. I just want to do more of it.
