Exercise 2: The Grid

This exercise involved imagining the floor was made up of a grid. Every actor also had to think of something they desired the most in the world this would be at the end of our own personal journey. To arrive at this destination, each actor must create his personal journey; you could only take paths that were in your imaginary grid.  As it was a grid, each actor could only turn at 90° angles, it required lots of concentration, as you had to show your desire to arrive at this destination through your movements, but avoid other actors that were performing the same exercise in the space around you.  This became increasingly more difficult as the director in control of the exercise, told us to walk faster and show our desire to arrive at this place.  

It gave a brilliant insight into stage acting and being able to understand the space around you while still performing, this would be useful in any kind of stage production, as you will need to know where your fellow actors are onstage without having to properly look, which would take away from the emotion of the piece.

Although it was an interesting exercise, I didn't find that it helped my understanding of experimental theatre, or even developed my experimental acting ability, as I found it wasn't very emotive, and in my opinion one on the main aspects of experimental theatre is that it makes people feel something, and as this exercise didn't lead on to anything, to me it was not useful, and is not an exercise I will use in the future.