Lit and Performance

lighting: simple lighting in order for audience to focus on the actors/actress, too shots separate the stage. Red light when I broke the glass menageries Prop: typing machine. Telephone. Two tables. Three chairs. Glass Menagerie Characters: exploration of the relationship between Amanda and Tom. Tom is annoyed by Amanda when she talks too much, he is eventually mad when Amanda says this is her house. Acting: in order to show the madness, discuss about the rise of volume of my voice, change in tone and the faster rhythm. Introduction: basic information, date, name, my character, the aim of the essay. Conclusion: summary of the whole essay. The great experience of the performance. My understanding of the play and the performance:Tom is tired of his harsh life, so he put all his stress on writing in order to relieve. He is also annoyed by his mother who has been talking too much throughout his life. Laura is the only person Tom loves in this play.

On February 13 we finished our final draft of the performance ‘Glass Menagerie’ . We’ve been working on this performance for around two weeks and we’ve all had great progress on both drama strategies and acting. In this essay, I will focus on our strength, weaknesses and the progress we made compare with the first draft. During the performance, we kept our lighting simple, first because we were doing a conversation, so there was no need to have too much lighting transition, also because it helps the audience to pay all their attention on the acting. One thing that we all did really well would be our control of voice. Since in the first draft all of we did not control our voices well including rhythm, tone and volume, we put in a lot of efforts to work on the voice. During the final performance, when I was first sitting and talking to Amanda, my tone was not too harsh on her but showed a bit of annoyed by her. However, when she said that this is her house, which triggered me, I sto...

There are multiple things we need to work on in order to improve the performance as a whole. First of all, instead of divide the stage into two parts, we will combine the two and separate the two scenes by simply using a blackout. Also, I think our props such as tables and chairs should be a bit closer to each other. Acting wise, there are a lot of things we need to improve. Firstly, we need to cut some of our lines since the performance is required to be around 10 minutes and ours was 20 minutes, it is also easier for us to memorize them. Secondly, all of us need to work on how to use emotions better in order to express the right mood, David Dai needs to speak with emotion, Stella and I need to control our rhythm. Another important part is that our transition was poor. All of us need to have more movement, during the performance, all of us were just standing still. Adding more transition and movement can make the performance more interesting and changing the pace of walking can also ...