One of my characters;

Viola;

For me, Viola is an extremely likeable character, and a great female lead! 

She acts as Cesario for the majority of the play, however, a lot of her personality shines through, such as her deep love for Orsino. Also, she's a very selfless character, because when Orsino sends her away to announce his love for Olivier, she does it because she just wants him to be happy.

Viola's love in the play is also the most true, because 
"Orsino jumps from Olivia to Viola, Olivia jumps from Viola to Sebastian, and Sir Toby and Maria’s marriage seems more a matter of whim than an expression of deep and abiding passion"

Themes; 

The main themes are unrequited love, massively! Because Viola is in love for Orsino, who is in love with Olivia who is in love with Cesario-(Viola). So there are lots of people all in love, but in love with different people. However, using the word "love", I also think that there lust is a theme too. Because when Olivia and Cesario meet for the first time, Olivia is swooned by him/her, before she even knows him/her! So because of that I think she just found them extremely sexually attractive and got obsessed with Cesario because of that.

Two types of tension:

1) built up over the course of our lives

2) from circumstances we are in

An actor needs a "free body" from tension that can be used to create + experience a role-(character)

Tension; 10 cate tension

. Sub-conscious- watch yourself

. Relax

. Free imagination

Think about YOU when it come to tension and what you need to do to be relaxed in order to use your imagination. What do you do as an actor to do this? How do you prepare for a show? Breathing? Lay down? Move about? How do you prepare yourself?? Vocally? 

Before a show, for instance I tend to just sit myself down in a corner and work on my breathing and going through my lines in my head. I do this to block everything out around me and it brings me into a more focussed environment where I can just be my character. 

I usually hold a lot of tension in my arms and shoulders so sometimes I'll also do some shoulder role exercises and shake my arms out to release the tension.