theatre of the Absurd

Towards the end of the lesson we switched off the lights and we said our lines adding the vocal expressions to our voices.
 when the lights were off we were able to focus on just our voices and it really helped us understand what to do even more to help us with our scripts.
and the feedback we got  at the end of the lesson really helps us because we were told what worked and what didnt work.

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