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To develop the character of Rosalind I repeated the scene doing a variety of different activities to take my mind off the words and see what happens to the text. Firstly I laid on the floor and rolled over every time I felt it change subject or had a new thought. The motion of the rolling and the effect it had on the voice was interesting as it made the emphasise go on different words which sometimes worked better than what you would have originally thought. Then we tried saying what us as the character means in modern language. This made me understand the language more which made me portray the scene in a more believable way. The next exercise I did was to draw a pattern I see on a piece of paper whilst I say the speech, this distracted me so the speech became less stressed which on some lines worked really well but as a whole lost the urgency of the scene. Finally I also said my lines whilst writing a letter, again pausing when there was a new thought. This was similar to the first exercise I did but the words didn’t change in intonation as much because I wasn’t physically exerting myself. Throughout all of these small, quick activities I found lots of different bits that worked at different paces and pausing in places that I hadn’t first thought of.