Affecting the audience

In this week's lesson we focused on controlling our audiences emotions. We learnt about a man named Artonin Artaud. We learnt that he liked to make his audience feel scared and uncomfortable. Sir took us under the stage and already I felt uncomfortable and slightly intimidated. He taught us how a change of environment, changes the audiences mood. This gave me a lot of ideas for our performance on "Alice in wonderland". We where then split into 2 groups. My group was told to stay under the stage and face the back and stay still. The other group then had to try and make as feel uncomfortable or scared. I found that as soon as the lights were switched off I tensed up. I thought it was interesting that as soon as I was in an environment I wasn't comfortable in, my body language changed.