Evaluation

The show I think throughout was strong and was successful ii also believe that most of the tutor put a lot of thought and time into characters. In my own performance I think the idea of my character strong and how he is always distracted performed this by even when on or off stage would be in my own thoughts and chewing my fruit drops I do know this was successful as audience did sometimes look at me off stage and did not just want them to see an actor off stage waiting to go on but the character throughout. Physicality I feel was held throughout the show as when I was sat down would normally sit in the same positon with my hand on my right leg or while walking my hands would be behind my back and I would be looking round the room thinking of my memories. If we had a larger rehearsal time think I would like to have played around the relationships between the characters and different ways my character could have felt towards each of them. This term I think the fact we have been looking into naturalism is an important topic to an actor the most important thing to understand is the opposite of naturalism so melodrama and looking into what makes that is a key thing to understand naturalism and we also began to understand the smallest thing can change naturalism either the way you speak or what you’re doing on stage. However we took an old paly that would have been mostly performed over the top and we toned it down and turned it into a show that the audience could relate to or really think about.

Looking into Stanislavskis work really help he was the original founder of naturalism he believed an actor should not just act a character but be a character. When it came to the final show I think this really helped a lot of people as if we had not looked at his work the performance may have looked melodramatic. For example the scene on pg 311 with Guyev  Lophakin and Ravensky little thing such as the way she spoke to the servant or how Lophakin spoke to the other characters could change the performance if they were more over the top but in the natural world u wouldn’t react to a situation in that way it may be more toned down. In the rehearsal process writing and changing the objectives allowed the actor to know how each line and each scene would play out and the attitude or atmosphere of the scene but as we got to change the objectives t allowed us to play round in which objective was suited for each line and see which one best explained to the audience what the actor was trying to show so in the show I do think that I did play to objectives and that allowed the scenes to flow more freely. Showing intentions to the audience I believe did try but I could have spent more times on making my actions clearer so an audience understood why my character was doing these certain things.

Beau had an all-round great character and I know for a fact that he at home worked endlessly on his husky old voice , and his posture ii do give him a lot of credit to stand there while the show was going on just looking at the ground however I do think he could have worked on his lines a bit more as a key character throughout the show he was not certain on all lines or queues as in rehearsal he did walk in a few times.