I developed my character by using Le Coques 7 states of tension. One of the exercises I did was to walk around the room and continued to act out the 7 states from the Jelly fish to curious to melodramatic and so on. By doing this I was able to see how we react normally as ourselves and it was helpful because we then were able to perform this as our characters to see where they were on the scale. My character throughout these exercises stays fairly neutral because I think that even though she is feeling a lot of different emotions at the end of it what actually comes out is more of a wittiness rather than angry. "so lets use logic here: If A we never had a serious marriage then B we can't have a serious divorce" with this line I thought about the ways Jill could say this and I resulted to the fact that I think she would say this line with a sarcastic tone as she is trying to be smart and I feel like she is trying to show that she does but doesn't care. This is because she doesn't want to loose Charles but she is unhappy about the situation so instead of resulting to angry she is being more of a digging sarcastic commenter about the situation as if its her way to cope with the divorce. To give this tone across I purposely chose to add in pauses to the sentences like after 'A' and 'B' too give more of a dominance to it showing she knows what she's saying and she is being sarcastic and by pausing and putting emphasis on these words it shows the fact she's trying to dig these points in to get her own way which at first comes across as slightly immature.
I feel that Jill is a calm character, who shows signs of passive aggression, so I’d like to say her words with a sarcastic tone, in order to portray that passive aggression. I also think that it should be spoken as if you can tell she is thinking about the past as she talks therefore I think that by changing the pace of how fast she talks will give this effect. Like when she is talking about Paul writing her all these love sonnets I am going to change the past and make it faster to show the fact that she already has these facts revised and she remembers them for in a situation like this. I think that Jill is being neutral I feel like when Jill is overthinking and rambling, I would like to pace on the stage, to show lack of control of her emotions. It also shows how the situation deeply effects her however because of previous events she cant take the situation seriously as she though. I will also use a lot of hand gestures to add to her sarcasm when she is talking. I feel that by tilting my head and rolling my eyes at Charles, will show the audience that I am annoyed and find the whole situation seriously.
