

We rehearsed in the hall today for the first time and finished off act two, I found being in the hall to be a much better place for rehearsal as it aloud us more space to act in and gave us a sense of how the performance is going to be! he sat an' tol me 'bout all the fine girls he'd lay with back in his younger days, 'fore he got married, whilst we got through a whole damn bottle-o-factry liquor, crazy sonofabitch probably the fella who got me into drinkin' so damn much! I recollect this one tim he gave me a twenty packa lucky strike to me fur baylin' a ton-a-hay. Like ol' Tom he was a while older than me i dunno probably ten years or so. John Joad is a nice fella, always has been, we were good pals fur years. An' John would always be the fella who would give me a nice long sip of is whisky. Knowed Ol' Tom for years he's 'bout 12 years older than me, used to let me help out on the lan' when i was a boy.

I remember when I was a boy listenin' to all of grampa Joads stories 'bout how he would go aroun' fighting the injins out west! Yeah i knowed the Joad fambly for a helluva time. I figger young tom is taking over from his Pa aintOl' Tom never been such a hella as young tom is, I figger young Tom was always gonna be in charge 'fore his time. aint Tom never been a fight starter unless you fret him or his fambly the way a good should be. yeah he killed a fella but im damn sure the fella deserved what he got. Young tom joad don' seem to of changed much, always been the same aint never wanted to hurt no fellas has tom. So I felt it was my duty to hold my concentration and re convey this to tom at a later date this goes on to cause out eventual argument in the next scene. I was becoming worried that california would tear the Joad family apart the family that had helped me, fed me, given me shelter. This description was affecting me, scaring me. When he started talking in details about his children's death I started to approach him my face intrigued, holding his gaze after everyone else had enough. I was quite relaxed for the most of his speech until it started to reach it's climatic sections where I would interact with Tom, Pa or uncle John- the characters I am closest to in the play. I feel that it was a scene that really gave me an opportunity to expand my acting as I had to portray all of the emotions and reaction to what 'The man going back was saying' without the use of speech therefore using only facial expressions movement and silent character interaction. Though this seem an unlikely choice considering I only have two lines in the whole scene. My favorite scene in the whole play is the scene with the man going back.
