Within the play, I believe I had a very big transformation, to begin, I offered little ideas, worried about how my ideas would be construed, or, if listened to at all, therefore I kept my head down and tried out other's ideas, however after our group discussion about what we can change individually I decided what I wanted to change individually was that I wanted to contribute more ideas, so I did.
A good example of myself contributing ideas was with my own scene with Mina (Sophia), I thought since my interpretation of my character was that she acted younger than her age and child-like in general, I decided to play her so, perhaps make her more energetic such of a child, I wanted a way to use all of the stage also, so I decided she would bounce around the stage and Mina, being this wise woman and the complete opposite of Lucy in general, Mina would be trying to "Control", Lucy, for example whenever Lucy skips to the other side of the stage, Mina would follow and try and control her, by taking her arm trying to guide her back to the other side of the stage, this also gives "Status", to the characters, Mina being a higher status, as she is looking after Lucy as if to be Lucy's guardian, despite Lucy's age.
Another idea I had was that, in act two, within the scene with "Arthur, Van Helsing and the second Lucy", was that Arthur should be off stage, while Van Helsing are discussing him "We should leave him to his mad mans eh?", something I noticed while observing the scene as, in reality I felt people tend to talk about someone when they are not around, we trialed and tested it, however we decided that it was almost an "inside joke", between Lucy and Van Helsing, almost a moment that they share together as they are the only ones of which truly understand this vampire world and that they should "Leave him believing they are mad men" because they know what they are saying it is true, so it doesn't matter what others think.
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