Laban Efforts

To begin building our characters we started exploring different types of physicality we could apply using Laban efforts. We began looking at a chart of different ways of moving through the space.




We had to think about the contrast in our characters considering that we were playing women in a ammunitions factory in the beginning sequence and a man for the rest of the play. There are obvious physical differences between men and women which effect the way they walk. I have 3 male characters in Henry V and a lot of the choices I've made for those characters in terms of physicality are very heavy and direct. Whereas for my character who works in the factory. Even though she is not a soldier I want her movements to still be very direct because she has a job to do and being very direct represents the whole atmosphere in  the factory, an orderly working environment.

For my character John Bates I've decided that because he's a tired soldier in a camp he should have a very indirect, heavy type of walk. Whereas with my character Gloucester needs to be very direct, quick and heavy because he needs to show he has some authority over some of the other characters but he I also under the king and needs to be ready to jump up to serve the king for anything he wants.