Drama Performance Analysis
The aim of our drama performance was to perform ‘reality on stage’. We
did this by basing our character on a real life person. This aim was
to insure that we could fully understand Stanislavski theory of
showing realism on stage and applying it to our own acting. For
instance in our scene we had to enter a lift but to show this in a
realistic way we had to use the magic if (if my character was here
what would they need to do to get in this lift or even why my
character was getting into the lift in the first place.) We couldn’t
just walk straight into the lift we had to actually press as button
and wait for the lift to arrive otherwise it wouldn’t be realism.
Improvising
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In our first lesson of drama, once we had decided to place our scene
in a lift and brainstormed how our characters would react in this
situation our drama group just got up and we just started improvising
the scene. Each time we finished the scene we would spend time talking
over what worked well and what didn’t and then would improvise
selecting and rejecting material as we went on. I thought this was
such a good way of devising because we managed to come up with ideas,
which I don’t think we would have if we had not used improvisation. I
think this is because unless you improvise you tend to think too much
about your ideas, which means you might think an idea, won’t work in
your head, when in actual fact it does work well on stage.
Each piece developed a structure; and each piece built up to a
climax. Our drama piece built up for a climax at the end of the
performance. We used the contrast on silence and shouting to build up
the climax. One of the characters was silent the whole way through
where as me and the other character were out spoken. In the build up
the out spoken character and me both had a argument over the silent
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