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Chrissy and I completed our scene for The Glass Menagerie. The two of us spent a great amount of time figuring out our characters. We needed to figure out the whos, whats, wheres, whys, and hows.
Here is what we’ve concluded about our characters:
Laura is Amanda’s daughter. They are in their apartment. There is a bed, a chair, a kitchen, a door, and a balcony. She is shy but has a lot of ideas about what she believes is right.  In the scene, she is contemplating who this Jim O'connor person is and how she will react to his arrival. She decides that she will be too nervous when Jim O'connor arrives and begs to not go anywhere near him (for example opening the door for him). Instead, she begs her mother, Amanda, to complete the task of opening the door for Jim.
Amanda is Laura’s mother. The scenery is the same as in the synopsis of Laura (look above). She is very motherly and a little bossy because she also has a lot of ideas about what is right. In the scene, she is explaining that gentleman caller will be coming over for dinner, nudging Laura to make small talk with him for when he arrives. She determinedly commands Laura to pull herself together and to stop overreacting about going near Jim O'connor (for example opening the door for Jim). Amanda gets what she wants in this scene by talking with conviction and trying to reassure Laura that everything will be okay.
Chrissy and I did silly things to try and figure out how we wanted to say our lines. The two of us read our script with all different types of accents and used all different types of emotions. I the end, we found what we were looking for. Laura and Amanda both had to have some kind of stubbornness to them and also some kind of separateness.
I’m glad with the outcome of our scene. It took a couple of times, but we got to a point where we were really able to react to each others emotions. I think the two of us just have to let go a bit more. When you let go a little, you get the emotions and naturalness in the scene that you’re  looking for.
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