1. Investigate stereotypical aspects of your character - do they speak a certain way according to where they've been brought up? Do they have a facial expression embodies their personality?
2. Think of a gesture your character would do that is stereotypical - find this through improvising walking round the space and experimenting with these different movements
3. Get into groups of similar characters and say what you want to the opposing group and let it build to an argument - work as a protestor version of your character.
4. Layer your gesture in to what you say and how you say it
This allows you to get into the mind frame of you character and allows you to develop their Gestus, so that this stereotype can show through and distance the audience from your character. By acting as a mob, in the case of 'In the Beginning' - it suits the play well because the stereotype of parents and children is exposed though this argument presented in the script. This can then be used to heighten the clarity that the parent and child are DEBATING rather than emotionally arguing, which brings the audience along the journey with them.
To develop this exercise, you could improvise your scene, but you can only use your gesture for your character once - this should be when you feel necessary so don't plan it.
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