evaluation

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 stood up and immediately raised up my volume and raise to a higher pitch in order to show that I’m tired of being blamed on something that is not true. Same as David Dai and Stella Chen, they all showed great emotions by their impressive use of voices. Also, during the first draft, because of the miscommunication and lack of preparation, our script was boring and therefore we cut all the unnecessary lines and combined all the good lines into one line. All these efforts we put in eventually paid off. 

On the other hand, we do have some weaknesses that if we improve the performance will be on another level. First of all, our transitions were extremely poor, there were not a lot of movement on stage, we were standing still with limited amount of body language. All we did with body language was some small gestures which was obliviously not enough. If we improved that, the performance will look a lot smoother and natural. Also, there was a big mistake during the performance. When I was going to leave the house, Stella was supposed to grab my shirt and ask me where am I going, and then I say ‘please don’t grab me mother’. However, Stella forgot to do that, so I had to put my arm next to her arm, which will make audience confused. This was not Stella’s fault, it was because of the miscommunication and lack of attention, which is what we definitely need o work on. 


Overall, the performance was successful finished. The two weeks of hard work and deep thoughts eventually paid off, we all had some great ideas to make the scene perfect and during the performance we all tried our best to perform. Although there were some small mistakes on stage, it will not affect the play as a whole. 

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