CHARACTERISATION: Run through of the play

Today in class, the whole group ran through Playhouse Creatures with the scenes in order. It is the first time all of us have seen each others scenes properly, so it was a very interesting lesson. We performed to our tutor, who gave us directors note at the end of our performance.
Our main focus is on our characterization and how well we portray our characters. 
The questions we were asked today about our characters in our individual scenes are;

1. Are the characters clear? In my two scenes I am in, I feel I portray MRS MARSHALL very clearly, and you can tell I am playing the same character throughout, as some of my class mates are playing more than one character in the play. I feel my characters personality is very clear, I portay her as a very grounded and strong women, a tiny bit more mature than the other girls, but still quite young as she has an element of youthful attitude, and can be quite boisterous and fiery at times, particularly towards men! I feel she does not really care what anyone thinks of her, and she does things purely for her own advantage. Having said that, I feel she does try to help the characters, particularly MRS FARLEY, but essentially, everything she does has a purpose and I feel she believes in herself and is a very driven and ultimately clever woman. I feel I have portrayed this well in todays performance, and listened to the notes I was given previously, about adding some friction into my first scene with myself and Lucy( MRS FARLEY) when we are discussing what we did the night before. I feel after adding friction, my character developed a lot more in this first scene and the audience can immediately identify that she is a smart and strong woman. 
2. Are Objectives clear? I feel MRS MARSHALLS main objective in this play is to increase her acting ability and to be noticed by higher class people. I feel she is definitely a clever woman and knows that sleeping with people to get to the top is not always the best way. Although, she does have an affair with the Earl of Oxford and asks him to marry her if he wishes to sleep with her, which is quite a silly thing to do as it has put her in a vulnerable position and her attitude towards him ultimately leads to the ending scene, in which the audience will see MRS MARSHALL entering the stage, disgusted and outraged, as two men have thrown human shit from the road side into her hair to teach her " manners" as she has been clearly quite rude and obnoxious to the Earl, and the Earl is obviously a horrible man! Her objectives in the first scene with herself and MRS FARLEY are very clear, as she starts to talk about visiting salons and socialising with intelligentsia, which were back in those days, middle to upper class people with a good social network, who challenged God and started to introduce science and scientific beliefs. This clearly shows that MRS MARSHALLS objective is to become more educated about life and discoveries, and wants to learn about people and wants to teach these people about herself, as she states " they ask me things about me and my life here on stage" so these people are actually interested in her as a person and her lifestyle! Which is pretty incredible, considering how women had such a low status back in the 16th century. I feel I have portrayed her objectives clearly in our performance today, and she certainly has different objectives than all the other women in the scenes. I feel I portrayed her objectives better in the first scene than in the second scene, as MRS MARSHALL's character is much more strong and open in the 2nd than in the 1st. In the first scene I feel her objective is to protect the theater, and to "help" MRS FARLEY with her pregnancy, when I say help, I mean help the theatres reputation, help her career as an actress and to help MRS FARLEY as she knows very well that she will be doing it alone if she does decide to keep the baby and the only way she will be able to provide for her baby is to become a prostitute. MRS MARSHALL is quite hard skinned, but underneath I believe she has a warm heart, she does not wear it on her sleeve, like some of the other girls, particularly NELL AND MRS FARLEY. 
3. Is the story within the scene clear? I feel the story in our first scene when Nell Gwynn first comes on the scene as an actress at the theater, is clear at times and then sometimes it can be a little unclear. Like for example, today we recieved directors notes and it was unclear what was going on and what the relevance was with the scene with Greta and Chloe( DOLL AND MRS BETTERTON) I agree as I do not really understand this scene, and what connection it has to the rest of the play. So as a group we need to discuss this part and think of ways we can improve it and make it more clear for the audience, just because the majority of my group and myself are not in this scene, that does not mean that we have nothing to do with it, as it is in our part of the play and we are all working together so we need to have a group discussion about that particular part in the scene. I feel the story with Nell is very clear, just needs to be a little bit more sharper, our characters all need to portray just how we feel about Nell, coming into our theater without having an interview from the boss! And MRS MARSHALL AND MRS FARLEY's love hate relationship is very clear I feel, as in ways you can tell they have known each other for years and have become very used to one another, and my character laughs warily at a few of her jokes she makes about Nell, but at the same time the audience can sense that MRS MARSHALL feels somewhat disapointed in her stupidity and shallowness towards other people, for example in our first opening scene together, my character is expressing how she loves going to the salons as she meets different interesting people who are well educated and want to actually TALK and FIND OUT THINGS about Mrs Marshall, and don't just want to have sex with her and use her as a bit of "arm candy" which contrasts heavily with Mrs Farley as all she wants to do is sleep with the king and develop a name for herself, she expresses immaturity as she finds it "funny" that Mrs Marshall wants to get to know different people and to educate these people about her life as an actress. In our second scene I feel the story is very clear, the main storyline is that MRS FARLEY is pregnant with the Kings child and the other women are mortified and shocked about this, and MRS FARLEY clearly does not want to loose her career as an actress, but at the same time she does not seem to want to get rid of the baby as much as she would love to and this is portrayed very well. This scene also features a male character! Who is played by Unis. Otway is a struggling playwright who thinks he is amazing at what he does, and is so over the top about everything he says and is very pretentious throughout. I feel myself and the other actresses in this scene portray just how united they were together as a team, in this scene all the females gang up on Otway and complete dismiss his play, and MRS FARLEY even falls asleep when he is reciting his play! The only female who is slightly polite to him is MRS BETTERTON, as she is the boss and is the most mature out of the actresses. We all portray this part of the story really well and I really enjoy this scene as the females are all working together and having banter with each other, poking fun at Otway, who appears to be very nervous and wary throughout this scene! I feel on the whole, our portrayal of the main story line in both scenes as a group are strong and clear.