3.2.

   We started the lesson with an exercises that worker on our diction and speech. In the exercise we had two people leading, walking around the room and moving in different ways and paces. and the rest of the remaining people would follow which ever leader they wanted to. Siou would assign someone to start saying a longer bit of a line from your speech, and while you were saying it, you still had to continue following the leaders. The others still had to follow the leaders as well and also listen to the person talking. This was a Enrique Pardo technique 'Bringing meaning to text from' Pan Theatre, and it definitely worked. Not only did it bring meaning to the, finding different ways, emotions, paces and energies to present it, it also required full-on concentration to diction and articulation.   The lines were asked to perform not in character, to give the full concentration to the speech and what you were doing, rather than what you were doing as a character. This is the speech I chose for this exercise:
"Now, the melancholy god protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything and their intent everywhere, for that’s it that always makes a good voyage of nothing. Farewell."
   This exercises helped me to see a little more the physical humour that is possible in this speech, since for now I've let the words speak for themselves. But since not everyone in our audience is comfortable with Shakespearean language, and so it would be good for me to tell the joke with my body as well. Since that speech of Feste is all about making fun of Orsino's mood and his and Cesario's moment together, I can use some rude movements towards Orsino or Cesario to show what Feste is talking about; questioning Orsino's feelings towards Olivia and basically telling him that Feste knows what is going on with him and Cesario.

   Then we started working on the last scene with all the 2nd years in it. We begun by looking at each character, what their feelings were and how perhaps they will end up after the play ends. Also, what do we want for them to happen. Do they all end up happy? Do we show how they end up after last scene? Is it a comical ending? Do we want to show the victims of unrequited love? These we're all questions that we discussed.
   In my opinion, especially Viola and Orsino end up happy, since they are the ones that get love at the end, especially Viola who reunites with her brother. Olivia is someone I'd like to think about with the others more, since her end could be questionable; does she live a happy life with Sebastian, or is she still in love with Cesario/Viola and so left in a more difficult situation. Both Orsino and Olivia have the power to choose their fate and what they want to do, since they have the high status to do it. Where as characters like Maria and Malvolio, who do not come from an background of such status, might have it worse after this scene. Does Malvolio get another job? Does he get over his madness? And Maria, is she punished for her actions? Does she marry Sir Toby and if she does, is it for love or for money? These were just some of the questions we asked about the different characters and need to think about whilst we are putting the scene together.
   For Feste this scene really shows a darker side of him, which also helped me to work on Feste's actions in 4.2.. He shows his grudge against Malvolio, revealing that he isn't just an observer but also someone who wants revenge. But rather feeling remorse like Fabian does, Feste continues to make fun of Malvolio. Earlier I've talked about how Feste is sort of a character that is in a way above these humanly emotions that all the other characters are going trough, jealousy and love especially, but this scene really shows that he is a human and he can be a bad person as well. I do not agree with Feste in this last scene at all, even if Malvolio has been insulting towards him before, they did ruin someone life and Feste doesn't seem to care at all. I really want to explore this, and even after Malvolio leaves in the scene Feste could possibly continue making fun of him, where as everyone else seems more taken back.

Things to work on:
 I still need to memorize for this scene, and I feel so does everyone else as well. Personally I also want to explore ways for Feste to bring a bit more lightness and fun into the scene by perhaps using the 'bringing meaning to text' exercise on some of my lines in this scene.  I want to start blocking the scene as soon as possible, so that we can get our lines into action.