Silent Acting

The final exercise that we did before the show was to do our scenes without any speech, but just with the movement, this was really interesting because it allowed you to really connect with the other actor in the play, it also allowed you to experience real emotion of the scene with out relying heavily on the words and instead relying wholly on the action. The people that were watching it said they found it bizarre to watch, but that they really felt they were emotionally connected with the characters, some said they even found it more powerful, so what I took from that,was to keep that level of connection with with the other actors and to let the words ride on the action rather than the opposite.