ACTING CLASS - 19 Sep 18

Last week, we went back into our Medea groups again to put more action into our performances. Just to recap, my group was me, Pedro and Sebastian. Ours was the shortest. We asked Sharon McKevitt, if we can ad-lib but instead she gave us more dialogue from the script.

This is how it was done in SCRIPT mode.

CHARACTERS:

TROY as Medea
PEDRO
SEBASTIAN

PEDRO and SEBASTIAN act as MEDEA'S conscience alley. MEDEA remains silent and becomes petrified as she listens to her thoughts. PEDRO and SEBASTIAN walk around MEDEA in circles.

PEDRO: What are you up to Medea?

SEBASTIAN (exclaiming): Speak to me!

PEDRO: Say something, for God's sake. Open the door, Medea.

MEDEA looks forward then is emotionally tortured and puts her hands on her face, covering it commencing her transformation.

SEBASTIAN: Come out and talk to us

PEDRO (pleading): We're all in the same boat as you. We've been through it too, cried our eyes out!

SEBASTIAN: You're not the only one who's been dumped by a husband.

PEDRO: It's happened to us too.

PEDRO and SEBASTIAN go behind MEDEA. They are now in formation. PEDRO touches MEDEA'S right shoulder. MEDEA takes her hands out of her face and gives an extremely frightening stare at the audience. She is now possessed.

TROY (dark, ghostly): WE KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING THROUGH.

We learned more about different gestures, vocal work - diction/articulation, what an ensemble cast (a cast where every character is significant), being neutral, avoid corpsing and how to be one with the character.

We took some feedback on our performance. We showed sensitivity, contrast in our characters and clear emotions. We conveyed our performance into a real conversation. We made the audience feel some tension. We were told to improve on more vocal intensity, be aware of our surroundings when we're on stage and making our performance even clearer. We also learned how to control the speed of our speech. Talk slowly so that the audience can understand us. D.I.D