With the research I had carried out on Stanislavsky allowed me to explore my character in my own interpretation and gave me a clearer understanding on what he saw was acting in his perspective. My interpretation of his moral is to see the role through my ideas and what was discussed with my group of what the scene was trying to convey. For example, one of his useful methods was objectives where each actor had to foresee what was the aim in the scene and that this had to be accomplished by the end. However this can be changed throughout the scene as it progresses.
Before the performance began, my group had discussed to make certain parts of our performance exaggerated due to the fact that we were last and wanted to make it as natural as possible in the sense of sustaining our roles. In other words to allow our roles flow throughout our characters and use emotional memory to remind us that although this scene takes place in history, we have a part of us inside the role making it as convincing as possible, For example, my character wanting to persuade the lieutenants to go ahead with the play, I had thought of a situation where in the National Citizen Service programme we had to learn about enterprise where in result had to convince a panel of judges to pick our ideas, instead of other groups.
During rehearsal, as my group had learnt our lines efficiently, we had experimented the scene with different accents and paces to see how they effected the scene. However, one factor that I keep doing is speaking to fast. So what I decided to do was say my lines slower during my day to day activities. In result of the final performance, it was beneficial although I did return speaking fast at certain points. So i need to work on avoiding this by constantly practicing tongue twisters and make sure I pronounciate every syllable in the words I say. In addition, I watching back at my performance, I need to allow moving around the stage naturally as at some points I think I thought that I should not turn my back to the audience, However to make the scene look as convincing as possible, I must not get that factor to one side.
In the performance before Our Country's Good, we had devised a piece with the dancers with our previous project, Greek Theatre. We were taught a short routine at the end of the piece where the movement was in synchronization with the recordings of our letters acting as the form of music. Personally with the time we had to prepare this whole piece, the whole piece looked beautiful as the transitions were smooth and timing was on point, For example, I was one of the first to cue the dancers to perform their piece during my scene and I had to make sure everyone was on stage by listening to footsteps to ensure everyone was there rather than having to look back. In result, the whole piece was brilliant and it was a pleasure to work in a different field of acting and in addition, work with a larger ensemble rather than just my own drama class. This benefits me as an actor as it is essential to get used to working with other people as that is very common in the performing arts industry. In conclusion we had met the expectations of what we were set to achieve; to provide the abstract form of music of Greek Theatre to allow the dancers to produce their pieces in harmony.
However, what could be improved was the speed of people coming on, This is because due to the fact that the whole piece is very long and with the type of audience that we have currently tend to get bored easily so in turn transitions and cues to come on still need to be sharpened up. Other than that, the voices of the actors were good, projected well and the pieces of the dancers were very well rehearsed - in result looked graceful.
If we were to take the Our Country's Good piece in to next term, I would prefer the scenes to be interpreted in the groups' own way as they felt very repetitive, especially for Stephan's scenes where he had to perform it twice after Jireh had performed it once. As I was part of the audience, I had observed that some of the audience members were getting irritated and getting restless as these scenes went on. In result I would prefer other scenes or the scenes just interpreted in the groups' own way as it gives a sense of being unique rather than the same as others before. For example, with Segun and Tarkan's scene, which was the same as Isaiah, Jamie and my scene, was interpreted quite differently to ours due to the fact that we had 3 people in our group and allowed us to alter our one although we both had the same scene. In their scene, Segun conveyed his character as very dominant, whereas I got lost in my own knowledge - two very different interpretations of Captain Phillip but the same scene.
In my opinion, I have increased confidence on the stage with different types of audiences as previously, I had performed to my high school with similar environments. However, for the previous few months in college has taught me to always put a part of me in the role as this is what engages the audience the most which in result increased my confidence. This is because in previous performances I had taken part in was performing as part as a music production or talent shows which involved me. However, studying pure acting, especially in the past, gave me a chance to learn more about different types of entertainment in different era's but always put a part of me in that role. The audience is one of the biggest factors when it comes to performing, and the engagement with them builds a relationship between the actor and audience exposing if they are really enjoying the performance.
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