The 39 Steps

Our next unit is applying acting styles. We have chosen to perform the play 'The 39 Steps' as we think it will be an enjoyable play and is very different to what we have previously performed. Before starting we work shopped some of the scenes, like the opening, to help us figure out who would play who. Our class is a group of 9 and the play is only written for 4 people ideally, so we decided it would be best to split into two groups and each do an act. This was quite easy as there is a lot of multi-rolling and so within the two separate groups we had enough parts for a 5.

With casting we were given who was playing Hannay in each group and then the two girls were given an act, hence deciding their characters. I was in act 1 so am to be playing Anabella, Margaret and Pamela. We decided the other parts between ourselves trying to share them out with the remaining boys, which was simple because of the many different characters in the play. Keeping the style of the play we still had multi-rolling to add to the humour which meant, when playing each person, we needed to be versatile and make use of accents and body language to make it clear who we were.