Physicality

My character comes mostly through physicality, and It's what will tell the story of my character. My character doesn't speak throughout The Tempest, so the story of my character will come through my physical relationship with other characters, it will also come from the given circumstances, of my character based from the Sierra Leone Freetown Colonization period.

My character was a slave before he came upon the island, so my physicality should be read as protective of myself, always on guard, and very observant of what's going on around me. I believe my character would be a very alert character, because he had previously escaped from his slave masters, which would have taken a lot of energy, strength and courage to do. There is a mistrust between my character and the Europeans because my character was enslaved by people like them, it's should be read as if my character has a vendetta against them, I want this to be read through my eyes and face. The way a person looks at someone can tell a lot about their relationship, and this is what I want to show through my facial expression, I want people to see the mistrust, but on a bigger scale the history between the African people of Sierra Leone and the British.

Through the history of Slavery we see that slaves were worked really hard, and I want this to be shown through my physicality and movement. I don't think my character would ever stand fully upright, and I think at some points it would be quite animal like. Even with the minor things like moving rocks or lifting wood, there is a certain way a slave would carry a pile of wood, because it's what he's been exposed to for so much of his life. I think physicality is something all the lost have to take into consideration because of who our characters are and where we come from, and a lot of the moments we interact with the Europeans there needs to be a story, and it needs to be read through our faces, and also how we interact with them, there has to be distinct choices made on how we move around them.