The final exercise of our Acting Technique class was again focusing on the work and exercises of Michael Chekhov, however relating them personally to our characters in Our Country's Good.

Our director instructed us to get into semi-supine on the flor so that we could participate in a character situation/dream like exercise.
During being in semi-supine with our eyes shut, we were instructed to imagine our character far away, engaging in some sort of activity. We were told to study what they were doing an analyse the activity, asking our character questions.
In my head, during the exercise I saw my character Dabby sat at the end of the shore in Australia, looking out over the sea, dreaming of her hometown Devon. She herself was in a dream-like state, with a lack of energy and growing fatigue, uninterested and unengaged in any form of action going on in the convict camp behind her. 
When asking my character questions, I discovered that she was very uncooperative. Dabby just wanted to sit in her daydream, restless that I had tried to disturb her. I really got her sense of pining for her hometown, and actually empathised with her, and decided that this was a factor of my character I needed to interpret into myself when playing her. Every spare moment away from duties and rehearsals, Dabby will merely spend her free time wishing away her life and pining to get back to her home down across the water, on the other side of the moon....

I thought that this was a really nice exercise to finish the lesson. It made me focus a lot on my character's mood at certain times of the day, and made me understand a bit more about her situation. 

Overall I have really enjoyed my first term of Acting Technique.