School play is near!

Description:  this week we’ve been focusing on the school play, as it is due next week!, we’ve been working on the scenery, the acting, and the change of scenes.

Analysis: The scenery is ready and it was easy to do, we just had to fold the big screen that is on the back and that was quite it. On the other hand, the acting was the difficult part to do. Even though we are IB theatre students, we need to focus and spend time on searching for our characters. And this is what we didn’t do as our priority was finishing the puppets, which by the way are finished.  So because of the no exploration time on stage, the characters are not fully developed. And this is a problem because the play is next week!. Acting for me it’s even more difficult with the big royal puppets, as I have to focus on the movements, keep checking if the puppet is looking at the right direction on remembering the text that I have learn 4 days ago, and to put an intention on the lines. The change of scenes are one of the most “challenging” thing to do, as the little kids sometimes confuses or take really long time to change the scenes, even though we are improving there is one scene that takes longer than the rest one (and we haven’t made act 2 yet).

Connections:  What I can do to improve the characterization and the way my character say things, could be working on the text and writing the intention of each line, and the important word in a sentence. As we used to do in form IV.

Reflection: even though there are techniques we’ve learnt what other ways are useful to improve the acting?