"I Don't Believe You!"

An actor needs to portray truth on stage to create something the audience can believe and relate to. We played a game called ‘I don’t believe you!’ where the actor is given a scenario they've just been through and how they react when they come through the door. The audience has to shout out "I don't believe you!" when the actor may be too dramatic or do something irrelevant to the scenario. It was so benificial as we saw how little subtleties really helped the scene show the plot and emotion of the character. When being the actor in the game it helped you think on your feet and allowed us to explore the different techniques of getting into the role. The actor before going on stage was outside the room, this gave the opportunity for the actor to get in character and it helped me learn how a backstory every event in a backstory has made the character who they are in the scene. I got a rather strange scenario of being forced into an arranged marriage by my mother who chose a really ugly groom and I really struggled grasping the character. How would she react when coming into the room, and I over acted it, shouting and talking to myself. Whereas it was more effective when I was silent, because in real life noone really talks to themselves and the shouting would have all been over before she came into the room. A really effective piece was one where the actor got the scenario of just been told he's got cancer and he played the character with a blank face staring into the distance his watery eyes almost glazed over, slumped physicality, when he came in he locked the door behind him and just sat there. It was so simple and as though the character had just given up on life. It worked so well as he didn't over complicate it and was able to show how the audience would have reacted in that situation. 

Truthfulness will help the DNA performance by touching the audience and making them believe you are the character, not just playing the role.