Great Meeting!

For those of you who missed the meeting, here's a quick snapshot.

We did a quick exercise on objectives with a short conversation in pairs where we had the same dialog multiple times with different objectives each time. Then we started the performances:
1.) Lori and Rebecca were hilarious and modeled great pacing, comedic timing, and team work in their scene called "The Exchange" where a simple transaction gets crazy with unnecessary red tape. (We've all been there, done that.)
2.) Paul and John tackled a more serious scene called "The Campaign" where John got to play the villain instead of his usual nice guy character and Paul got to play a more serious role as his wrestled with an issue of integrity in the workplace. They both did extremely well, especially due to the amount of difficult memorization. John used the "desk" (a rolling cart) well to assert his authority and show disconnect in his relationship to Paul's character. As Lori mentioned, we were tuned in from the beginning. They had some challenging dialog, and they made it work.
3.) Janet and Diana performed a scene called "The Intimidation" where they surprised us with their natural relationship as Diana took on a more nurturing/mentor role to Janet. Janet did a great job showing us a reluctant, yet desperate employee and Diana took her stimulus well and naturally slipped in with a calming voice to help solve the problem. Their objectives were clear from the beginning.
4.) Lisa and Anita's scene was another one that made us forget we were in a meeting and drew us in right away. In "The Accident" Lisa played a similar character to Paris Hilton (but not at all an imitation) and Anita was her lawyer as they discussed what was going to happen to Lisa's character now that she killed a young girl in a drunk driving accident. They added some excellent layers of duality as Lisa remained selfish and spoiled in the midst of a tragedy and Anita conveyed concern and disgust all at once. It was truly a memorable scene.
5.) Kyle performed a monologue where he played an older man who is concerned for his wife as he has been watching her slowly go insane since their son died of AIDS. While a pretty melodramatic situation and one very different from Kyle's experiences, he stretched himself to bring us a believable and compelling character and story.

Well done, everyone! See you at the Christmas Party on Dec. 17th!