N2C Directors Challenge Week 1

In this first session, our groups were selected. The main purpose of this session was to bond as a group and to understand the themes of the play. I was put into the group with Jermaine as our director, and we found out that our play was going to be Purple, by Jon Fosse. Jermaine decided that this was going to be a Stanislavski performance with the lack of personal pronouns for the characters lending itself to the idea of, 'just being a ball of emotion.'

I was given the part of, 'The Bass Player' who acts as a bit of emotional relief in the play, entering in the midst of a tense scene involving 'The Drummer' and 'The Boy' along with 'The Singer'. Having not been given the script, I wasn't able to explore my character fully but got the idea that 'The Bass Player', if not a calming character, tries to subdue the tense atmosphere.