Session Three

Week four - Tuesday 20th September

Key Terms

•                Super Objective

•                Objective

•                Units

Discussion what a Super Objective is: something the whole play is moving towards. What is the Super Objective of Romeo and Juliet?

Super-Objective, Objective exercise

1. Pick a point move towards it
2. Pick a person ‘A’ maintain awareness of them
3. Pick a second person ‘B’ maintain awareness of them, and A and picking a point.
4. Form an equilateral triangle with A, B and yourself.
5. Person A is your enemy – stay away from them.
6. Person B is your shield – keep them between yourself and A
7. Come to a group stop
8. Group stop, group start

What did each of the stages of the exercise help you understand about objectives?

In every scene a character has an objective – an aim to be achieved.   In working towards their objectives characters will invariably cross other characters who have their own objectives, using different strategies to achieve those objectives. 

Units

Means of dividing a scene into small sections in which a character or characters are interacting on one subject or thought. As the subject or thought changes so does the unit.

These can be as short as a line or word or as long a half a page or more. Each unit then has its own objective – as the units and objectives are linked it begins to create a through-line.