Entrance and Exit

Todays class was build around the idea of entrances and exits. I learned that depending on how you enter the stage, from right to left, or left to right, can mark the tone of the show and infer meaning to the audience. In America we read left to right, therefore when an actor enters the stage from the left wing it is more pleasing to the audience and denotes a heroic character or tells the audience that an action is about to happen. In contrast when a character enters from the right wing of the stage the message sent to the audience is one of danger and confusion.

In order to practice entrance and exits, Stephanie broke each student up into groups of two to practice with a scene partner an exercise to be presented in class next time. I was assigned the lovely Holly M. to practice with. While meeting with her outside of class we each picked our own tactics and objectives we wanted to accomplish for the scene.