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Reflection on my groups performance of ‘The Girl who Can’t Sing’
I think that our group successfully pulled off our play not beign as prepared as we could have.
Our use of masks was not the best - in retrospect it would have been much smarter and more practical to use the masks that only cover the top half of the face because I felt that when we were talking/singing together in the chorus is came across as muffled. The use of masks did, however, put all members of the chorus onto the same level and make us feel and appear to be one figure rather than separate performers.
It was a bit tricky for us to fully grasp the style of acting - the large movements and overdramatising of things. It was more complex than it seemed because we could not be over-the-top with our performance and lose track of the fact that we were acting as they did in the times of Greek Theatre, in the huge ampi-theatres. If we had more time mayeb we could have payed special attention to the style of acting and performing but generally I think we got the hang of it.
Prologue - we spent a lot of time on our prologue - time that we may have been able to focus on other aspects of our play, but I think we managed to acheive what we were aiming for in terms of the prologue. We took a opted for a different method in our prologue - because of the fact that a main part of our play was a choir we tranformed our chorus into the choir and then choir into the chorus. This way we kept some of that realism and made it clear exactly what and who we were while still incorporating the necessary aspect of a chorus into our Greek-theatre-styled play.
Paradox - I think that our group lacked considerably in our paradox because we did not provide a late enough point of attack. Our paradox would ahve been a perfect opportunity to give a decent background of what occured and though we provided a background, it would have been wiser to give less of a general background and more information of what has recently occured.
The scene changes were efficient but could have been more effective had we rehearsed them more thoroughly and worked out the exact moment of every freeze and exit etc. This would have tidied up the play and made it easier to watch. I am looking at this aspect of the play subjectively so I cant really be sure if it looked messy or not, but in terms of what I felt confident about the play this was definately not one of the things that i did feel confident about.
I thought it was good how/when we took oursleves out of our comfort zones in order to present styles of Greek Theatre sort of acting. For example, when we did the chain of ‘He wants to see her after class!’ it was very entertaining because we were addressing the audience as well as breaking out of the scene. Parts like that when we froze broke up the play slightly because our play was very long!
I felt that I took one of the leading roles in the production of our play. At some points of our journey, some members of the group got distracted and I found myself, along with other people in the group having to take control a bit to keep us going. Most of the time the whole group was on track and concentrating and at those points I like to believe that most of us contributed significantly to the progress of the play. I gave suggestions to which road the play would take and also random things that I had picked up on the way, as did most other members of the group. It would have been great if everyone had contributed exactly equally to the play, but essentially everybody did contribute sufficiently in their own way.
We did a great job all in all, I think.
The other groups play - ‘The Parents who Mistook Their Daughter for Their Son’
I thoroughly enjoyed watching the other group’s play. Some of the main aspects that stood out to me were the performance aspects - when the girls danced and sung in order to convey certain messages. It was done really well and it was clear that they had put in a lot of effort into that part.
Also when the group was gathered in the chorus it was really reflective of how the chorus’s performed in the Greek Ages. Everything was in synch, and I liked when the chorus spoke in monotone because it just gave that extra feeling that the chorus was one character.
The fact that the group was missing it’s main character did not bother me whatsoever. The acting of all characters was really really well done as you could clearly see which role they were taking, whether it be the innocent one, the evil one, etc. At some points I forgot that it was a Greek Theatre styled play, but mostly the actions were big and expressive enough for such a large audience.
Watching their paradox I realised where my play was lacking and thats in our late point of attack. Thouhg I wasnt really clear as to what were the events preceding the key events of the play, it was evident that the things that occured in the play were a direct result of what happened in the paradox. It was good how they gave a fairly detailed recount of what had happened to bring them to this point (what actually happened in the play).
I will continue this review next time!