Tuesday, 11 December 2012

Today we did an in character counsellor meeting, everyone in our characters. I found this really useful and really interesting to see how everyone portrays their character and how they'd actually be in that situation. I got to explore Roza's character deeper and more intensely - i also got to see how Imogen, whom i'm sharing the part with, played Roza. 
Roza's account of the meeting; 

The meeting  frustrated me as people die everyday, it's something that's inevitable, it's something we can't prevent. Yeah, Kojo stabbed someone and that wasn't good but Kojo shouldn't be blamed, something set him off - it's obvious, he's not like that normally, even i can see that. Though I'm sympathetic to those who witnessed it unwillingly, they didn't ask for that, they didn't ask to witness something so horrifying and now they have to live with it. Coming from Iraq to here, it was meant to change things, it was meant to leave horrors behind...but I guess everywhere you go there's always going to be some pain and I guess that's what happened to Kojo. No matter how strong you put on a mask and how much you try and stamp out the bad memories, something will always be there, something will always tip you over the edge and you'll snap. That's obviously what happened to Kojo, but no one knows what was going through Kojo's mind, not even Ara, no one except Kojo. Now we've just got to carry on, push past this incident and make it through like I have done with everything else in my life. Yeah, Kojo was a friend, but I'm never going to see him again, we need to move on, for Kojo.

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