Blog 5

The character analysis worksheet allows me to break down my character script by script. It allows me to know what my character wants and desire in my scenes. The activity that my partner and I did in class about the Blank Scene 6 where my partner and I had to see where the conflict was and use our imagination to fill in the blank. It was a little difficult finding the conflict because the dialogue was short like about one or two words. It was fun because our Blank Scene 6 was about two characters hanging out together and my partner asks me if I wanted a mint? I responded saying, “wait, why.” The conflict from this scenario was when my partner asked me “If I wanted mint because he is implying that my breath stinks.” Then, it gave my partner and I an idea which is to find our conflict in the script called Goose and Tomtom by David Rabe. Our conflict starts on the bottom page of 388 to the top of 389 where Tomtom says, “Now? Do you mean now? Goose responds, “What?” Tomtom says, “Wait a minute a minute.” Goose reponds, “No, no. After the thing there and the street and we’re by the mailbox there, there, and we do the thing there by the mailbox, you know with our watches-so what happen next?” Tomtom responds, “You mean in the plan?” Goose says, “Yeh. I mean, fuckin’ A. That’s what we’re talkin’ about. The plan!” This small dialogue shows where the two main characters Goose and Tomtom are arguing about the plan and are losing communication because they do not understand each other.  According to Actor’s Alchmey Finding the Gold in the Script, “ The ambivalence about leaving suggests a conflict, and conflict is the engine of drama. It is the motor that powers any story. There are three kinds of conflict, essentially: Person against person, person against him- or herself, and person against nature or society. Of the three, the most useful type of conflict for an actor and playwright is the first. Invariably, when two people are put onstage or onscreen, a conflict can be found between them” (26).  These activities that we did in class and the reading helped My partner and I to understand more of our characters and where the conflict was in our script, which is big key for our performance.