In today’s theatre class, we started with a warm up, first we shook it out then a quick and confusing game of ‘Want some spaghetti?’ and finished our warm up with ‘Give me back my son!’.
We had 20 minutes to get ourselves sorted with our groups, and have a final rehearsal before our Commedia performances. I felt as though we really needed those last minutes to prepare and a dd a few adjustments to our Lazzi.
Then when it came time to perform it’s safe to say I was very nervous. Other plays were very good and I was anxious that we wouldn’t live up to them.
Performance reflection: I feel as though overall our performance was good, there were a few laughs here and there that were an indicator that the audience enjoyed watching it. The highlights of the performance were mostly Benji’s lines ‘Let me be the knife that penetrates you!’, the fact that Raine was so nervous and looked so small next to me, rounded up a few laughs and the fact that I feel that we portrayed our characters well. If I could change one thing it would be that I didn’t get so nervous before performances, because I stuffed up my lines a little bit at the start. I felt as though we worked quite well together as a group, Benji, Zac, Raine and myself are all friends outside of school and I think that helped, because we weren’t scared to talk to each other about changes that needed to be made. We fed off each other for advice and made each other better.
As for the expressive skills aspect of the performance, our overall voices were loud and projected, although I feel as though Raine’s volume was restricted due to the fact that her mask was too big for her face. Our facial expressions were on point, as well as our gestures because I feel like we nailed the characters physicality. Our movement was decent, I feel like we used the space well.
Overall I think Commedia is really fun to play around with and have fun with. Everyone’s performances were very good and I thoroughly enjoyed watching them and performing ours.
We had 20 minutes to get ourselves sorted with our groups, and have a final rehearsal before our Commedia performances. I felt as though we really needed those last minutes to prepare and a dd a few adjustments to our Lazzi.
Then when it came time to perform it’s safe to say I was very nervous. Other plays were very good and I was anxious that we wouldn’t live up to them.
Performance reflection: I feel as though overall our performance was good, there were a few laughs here and there that were an indicator that the audience enjoyed watching it. The highlights of the performance were mostly Benji’s lines ‘Let me be the knife that penetrates you!’, the fact that Raine was so nervous and looked so small next to me, rounded up a few laughs and the fact that I feel that we portrayed our characters well. If I could change one thing it would be that I didn’t get so nervous before performances, because I stuffed up my lines a little bit at the start. I felt as though we worked quite well together as a group, Benji, Zac, Raine and myself are all friends outside of school and I think that helped, because we weren’t scared to talk to each other about changes that needed to be made. We fed off each other for advice and made each other better.
As for the expressive skills aspect of the performance, our overall voices were loud and projected, although I feel as though Raine’s volume was restricted due to the fact that her mask was too big for her face. Our facial expressions were on point, as well as our gestures because I feel like we nailed the characters physicality. Our movement was decent, I feel like we used the space well.
Overall I think Commedia is really fun to play around with and have fun with. Everyone’s performances were very good and I thoroughly enjoyed watching them and performing ours.