Evaluation

On the 14th of Feb we performed Fugee!!!!!Overall i think the performance went well. I was pleased with my performance and thought i played a convincing mother but i think i could have done better with a bit more work on her physicality's. On the night i found at one point i spoke quite quickly so if i were to do it again i would slow down my lines.

Things we could improve on a whole is improvisation skills, blocking, character physicality's and delivery of lines. At times during the performance people forgot there lines, causing the play to slow down and cause dilemmas, most times they would be well covered up with improvisation but other times someone may come out of character or shown that they had forgotten their lines. I think that line learning was a key factor of problems caused in the play as they were not learned well enough for people to be comfortable, and instead of focusing on their characters thought and emotions was focusing on their lines and ques. I also think that the characters off stage caused distractions as they were either reading scripts or distracted by something else, to improve this everyone should have stayed their character and payed full attention to their characters physicality's. Allot of people have said that in order to have improved the play we would have needed more time, but i believe that it wasn't time we needed just more focus, more determination and a better attitude towards learning lines, ques and blocking.

Overall i enjoyed working on the play and thought it was a very heartfelt topic to study, i enjoyed doing the different character building workshops and thought that this contributed greatly to the plays success. I will miss working on this play but im glad we pulled off a good show and worked well togeher.

Thursday 31st

We began last weeks Theatre lesson by finding a space in room, closing our eyes and getting into our characters. We then walked around the space in our characters. We pushed our characters physicality and body language to the max to make bold, clear decisions.

We then went into more detail and thought about the smaller habits our characters would have. I discovered that Mother touches her neck alot and hands this could be an insecurity, and also a habit to show her vulnerability.

This really helped me to get into my character more and i discovered that Mother is a little more vulnerable and not as strong as i first thought she was. As i began to put into practice these little trates and habits i began to understand more about the Mothers character and really get into her thoughts and emotions.This exercise helped inhance our characters and make us more comfertable with them

We carried on working hard on Fugee as we only have two weeks left till the show on the 14th of Feb.

Settings

Kojo's home in Ivory Coast

Settings

Market place

Working on the play

My main things to work on in Fugee

My scene kiss with Jacob- In a short scene during the play I have to kiss Jacob as his girlfriend. This is a silent piece of theatre, as Ara and Roza are speaking Jacob and I have to mime having and argument and then 'kiss and make up'. I need to work on making the mime bolder and more beleivable and also to get across to the audience that i am in a relationship.

My scenes as mother- In two scenes of the play I am the mother, in these two scenes i need to work on my characteristics and becoming more motherly, i also need to work on my voice and making it softer. I also need to work on my relationship with Kojo and really show that i care for him and that he is my son.

My scenes as a Woman- When i play woman this is in the market scenes where the stabbing takes place. I need to work on my transition of being a normal person in a busy market place to being a scared, terrified and screaming person. I also need to work on my reaction to the stabbing and make this believable.

24th January theatre lesson

To start the lesson off we found a space in the room, closed our eyes and got into the character. We were told to change our physicality, the way we stood, our posture, the way we hung our heads all to become our character I found this useful as it really helped me become the Mother.

I discovered that she was quite a busy woman, quite tall and proud, although had that gentile quality about her. Her main physicality was the way she would fiddle with her hands and touch her neck this showed her vulnerability.

We then had to walk around with the other people who shared our role and discuss the habits and characteristics of our character. I learnt that Leanne and I thought the same about the Mothers character and that she was confident and strong yet had that gentile side and vulnerability about her.

We played a game of stuck in the mud were we had to hop instead of walk, crawl and gallop this made me more focused. I learnt that although a simple game like stuck in mud may be seen as a but of fun and a game it is very useful as it helps focus your mind and makes you think More on your feet, an excellent game to get you ready for rehearsals.

Thursday 17th theatre lesson

We began by playing the game "Prisoner." In the game you had to try and escape from your prisoner guard by moving seats and trying not to get caught. The prisoner guard had to make sure his/hers prisoner could not escape. The guard with an empty seat would blind or wink at the prisoner they wanted, the prisoner then had to move to that guard without their prisoner tapping them and making them stay.

This game made me be more aware of the people around me and made me more focused on my surroundings. The whole group concentrated because you had to focus and pay attention be successful in the game. I think that this was a very useful game and made alert and warmed up the morning of rehearsals.