Devising experience


Devising theater experience 

         The devising piece that my group performed is named 'broken' . The story basically is about a freshman student Fred (performed by Yun) as the weakest kid in the school is always the target that gets bullied by Mike(me). His sister Serena (Madison) always tries to protect him, until one day Fred blames on Serena that the bully is all started by her because her protection makes him a little sissy. Eventually after the argument Fred apologizes to Serena and the broken fences is fixed and becomes stronger.
          Personally I came up with the idea that the family symbolizes the fences which protects the children. Also for the staging part, I suggested that the narrator(Stella) should stand on the left-down part of the stage which does not interrupt the main performers to perform and also create a boundary which separates the narrator and the other characters, this idea is effective because it can reduce the confusion that audience have to separate narrator and the actual characters. 
       Viewing our group as a whole, we collaborated really well, this could be observed by our efficiency of creating a performance in such a short period of time. We all agreed with each other’s ideas. For instance, when Madison came up with the idea that when Fred apologizes to Serena, he should hug her to show his honesty and desperation of being forgave by her. We all agreed with this excellent idea and it turns out that it worked perfectly.
         Despite of what went well, observing what did not go well can also improve our performance. Firstly, memorizing our lines would be a challenge for some members in our group, Yun was struggling with his lines memorization and also how he should combine his body language with those lines which shows character’s emotions. I was having difficulties with showing my characteristics clearly since I do not have a lot of lines. Eventually, I decided to increase my volume and at the meantime carry a stick to show the audience that I’m a bad bully who is arrogant and violence to the weak people. Also I suddenly lowered my volume when Serena comes to protect Fred from my bully, which shows that I'm actually scared of the stronger ones, and only have the courage to bully the weak ones.
       The performance would be even better if we could work on our transitions. In my opinion, our biggest problem is the transitions between each scenes and how can we make it smoother and less awkward, because a slow and long transition will make the performance less interesting and audience do not want to wait a long time for the next scene coming. Overall, we did a good job and I learned how to use a small amount of lines to show characteristics.

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