Evaluation of Show 2

Show Two
So, the final show before Brighton and Stratford! Excitinggg! 
The second show for me was good, I wasn't nervous which meant I could take my time as a performer and deliver the best I could! I think the second time round all the girls bonded more and I really felt this bubbly atmosphere between us when performing. 
However this time we had a different audience to play for, our parents and relatives. Sarah did pre warn us that parents wont laugh because they don't know when to, but I felt we got a couple of giggles as a whole cast. There was a very different change in the room, I felt like I had to work EXTRA hard in order to make people laugh so I pushed my character even more! 
The dance was successful and I think got people engaged with the performance. The boys scenes when they are hiding from each other was comical and as we were watching from the changing rooms even we were laughing. 

I felt that the second time round was more interesting and had more energy to it. 

To improve and do next time is ensure that I am spacing correctly and that I am not blocking anyone, I felt I needed to be more aware of my surroundings and not block anyone. There were ocasions in the shooting scene where I was blocking "Forester" all I needed to do was spread out a little more and it would of been better! 
Another thing to improve on is to make sure I don't get too rude as my character, she is sassy but she isn't rude, I did feel I had a lot of disgust facial expressions which seemed good at the time but now I look back I don't see the point. 

All in all I thought it was a really good show best one yet! Can't wait for Brighton and Stratford!

Evaluation of Show 1

Show One
My aims for the first performance:

• Speak loudly and clearly so everyone can hear me
• Keep up my physicality at all times
• Remember all my props 
• Remember where to stand
• Do what I have rehearsed 
• HAVE FUN

I think that I achieved most of these things other than the third one, I didn't remember one of my props but that wasn't too much of a bother. The atmosphere for the first show was hilarious and bubbly, because the audience was full of people who were more understanding of Shakespeare they laughed when they were supposed to and not just at physicality of characters but at some of the language jokes.

Back stage all of the girls were giggling and preparing ourselves just to bring life to our characters and to the language. I felt that my least favourite scene to do was the shooting scene, it was entertaining and I think by having an audience there was much more feeling in the room. The words were there to play for the audience, the purpose of a comedy is to make people laugh and I think we achieved that as a whole cast in the first performance. There wasn't a dip in the energy in the whole piece which was something I feared but I didn't have to because the energy was up and going and there wasn't a dead moment that I could see.

Classical Theatre - Week 7

So today we finally got a chance to perform in the new theatre, this was a time to get a feeling for the place around us and how much we will have to project our voices in order to be heard. 

The set was also on stage which gave us a chance to expand from being smaller rehearsal room to a bigger performing space. I forgot that the actual space we are performing in in three sides which means we have to project to all three sides and we need to make sure that we do not neglect any of the sides. 

Another thing that we had to do is work with the props that we have and to make sure we know when we are bringing them on and where to put them which isn't that difficult but it was nice to work with the guns in the shooting scene. 

Notes:
Ensure that I articulate all my words and don't speak too quickly.
Project, project, project! 
Work out which words need to be emphasised in order for it to make more sense the audience. 

Historical Context - Week 6

Loves Labours Lost

What is the play about and when was it first performed?

Love's Labour's Lost was first written in 1595 and was first performed in 1597 at the Inns of Queen Elizabeth I Court. Some of the characters in the play are loosely based of historical figures. It is one of Shakespeare's most early comedies, but his is a very odd comedy as it ends in tragedy with the death of the King Of France. 

Contemporary Play Of LLL

Love's Labour's Lost has been done by the Royal Shakespeare Company and has also been performed at the Globe Theatre.

I am going to look at the one that has been done at the Globe Theatre in 2009, below is the trailer for the play that was performed at the Globe. 

The trailer from the Globe Theatre's Love's Labour's Lost shows that they have kept the period clothes. And from the way it looks there is not much of a set other than the pillars and the stretched platforms that go into the audience. By having a minimal set there is a lot relying on the word play. The costumes are amazing, really decade appropriate and fit with the extravagance of the characters.

 The Princess of France in this version is played by Michelle Terry, from watching the trailer I can see she brought a sense of power with her character which is something I defiantly want to do with my character. 

Most women in Shakespeare's plays are either, going to die, witches, pathetic or just plain evil. Women were considered to be the "weaker vessel" and in Love's Labour's Lost the main group of girls are defiantly not dominated by the men, not until the end anyway. Michelle Terry's version of the Princess shows the fire behind her eyes, the sheer passion behind her words are really shown with her physicality and body language. I only wish to have that same fire and passion that she has. 

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AND DEATH DAY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE!

Classical Theatre - Week 6

Dancing

This week we had to continue polishing the dance and to make up a duet or trio dance with the boys we are supposed to be tricking. A lift, a spin and a slide had to be included. As we are supposed be tricking the boys in this scene we made it part of the dance routine. I think I am finally getting to grips with a not so complicated dance just need to work out which way I am spinning! 




End Of The Play
So the end of the play is extremely random and just doesn't make any sense whatsoever....my father dies and then all our plotting and scheming seems to go down the drain and suddenly we all fall in love with the men....yeah...I really don't understand the end. 
As it's a Shakespeare play I know as my character I am allowed to be over the top and slightly melodramatic but how do I do that when I found out my father has died. As my character I don't really know how close I was to my father so I decided to show my closeness to my sister instead. I don't want to make the comedy sad at the end so I decided to make my character use the death as an opportunity to warm up the Kings. 

After working on the end we did a run from page 40 which wasn't completely terrible but I do need to learn my lines! 

Finding My Character

Over the last few rehearsals I have been trying to figure out who The Princess is? Is she nice? Is she mean? Does she flirt with you and then stab you in the back? Is she floaty or does she stomp around? And finally after thinking and trying different things out I worked it out!
She is, smart! Smart enough to so her wit but clever enough not to over use it. She can get what she wasn't from a click of her fingers - there is an air around her which just stops people to just watch her. Her women, Katherine, Rosaline and Maria are her three close friends that clearly have been through some stuff with her and are just as mischivous as the Princess. 
Her voice is high and flowy, she takes her time to say all the words and then other times she cuts you off with her wit. 
Before she sits down, she looks around the room and then decides where to sit or stand. There is true elegance behind this character and there isn't not class with her. 
Me and Tatenda have a rold split which is even better because we can feed off each other, the looks and the glances accross the room. Almost having a telepathic conversation. 

I feel that my character is really genuine, and I want to depict that on stage.