Learning and further development of Faustus

Learning and further development 
of Faustus

After the lesson that we had where we devised our script and edited our scene down to around 5-10 minutes long, in lessons after started  working hard on our scene and was trying our best to learn our lines. I did find it difficult to learn the lines as I struggled to learn the old language and get it into my head. Magic and I kept on going through the scene over and over again and thinking of ideas to incorporate in it. We decided that Magic should have a dominating overpowering presence about himself to make himself feel more superior to myself. We decided that I needed to have a cunning and sly approach to my characterisation to give an undermining and a sense that I have an all knowing about the scene and the upcoming events of Faustus's fate. 

As a class we then worked out how we were all to be positioned on the stage on the 7 stage blocks. Then each pair was given one of the 7 deadly sins - which are seen in the play - and do a mime of one of the sins that we were allocated to us. 

The 7 deadly sins are the following:
Wikipedia. Seven Deadly Sins. [Online] 
Available from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins [Accessed: 12/10/14]

• Lust - The intense desire for food, fame, money, sex
• Gluttony - Constant greed or excess in eating.
• Greed - The excessive desire for material possessions
• Sloth - Physical and spiritual laziness and unmotivated
• Wrath - Uncontrolled feelings of hate and anger
• Envy - A desire to have a quality, possession of someone else's 
• Pride - Believing one is better than others 

The sin that Magic and I were given was sloth. We thought that this was a difficult one to mime as initially we didn't know what it meant, so after looking up a definition for it we decided that I would be pointing aggressively at Magic as if telling him off and making him do things, almost giving him a lecture about things, and his response to my actions would be looking unmotivated and not listening to what I am saying to him. 

We continued to further develop our scene by creating more movement and walking around and circling each other. One part of the scene that we directed our self to do is when Magic is saying his last speech at the end of our piece is for me to circle round Magic with my eyes and focus solely on him. The reason we have done this is Magic is talking about "Having thee ever to attend on me, To give me whatsoever I shall ask, To tell me whatsoever I demand, And always be obedient to my will" 
Everything that Magic is saying are all these thoughts going round his head, so the purpose of myself circling him is to give an intense presence but to also replicate the way that I am circling Magic are the thoughts that are circling round Magic's head. 

My task now is to further learn the script ready for our performance on 2/10/14. We have been asked to bring all black clothes to wear and to be off script ready for our studio performance. I will try my best to learn the dialogue however I am struggling to get it into my head but I am sure the more I read it the more confident I will be with it.