Thursday, October 14, 2010

Today, we played Straigtman. It was an interesting game, particularly since I was one of the weird family members. However, it was hard to act weird in a feasible way. I managed to create an over-welcoming, peculiar character however. The scene lasted long, but at times it did not advance fast enough. When Helen, who was the straightman, and I were on stage, most of the time we just talked, not necessarily getting much further into the scene. However, at times, crucial information was passed on, so those moments had their merits. On the other hand, it was hard to do much else because we were the only two characters on scene. Some others came into the scene, but the scene definitely did not get weird until some of the guys came on stage and began to act a little like zombies, kicking each other and falling on each other. These characters could not hear anything either. At the end, when we were supposed to tie up the lose ends, it was hard to justify these characters, and it ended up with some others being killed or made into the zombie-like creatures as well. Then it just got weird. This was challenging, tying up the lose ends at the end, because we had kind of let our imagination fly, and had not thought ahead to justifying our characters.