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Life is dull, only drama is colourful.
Monday, January 7, 2008
Today our task was to get a sense of what we will be doing for our CA1 test.
We were asked to take a character from our plays thatwe are playing and do a short improvisation.
Round 1:
Take your chair neutrally and move to the front of the class, introduce yourself and your character and say the line "How did you know that" in your character
Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral is an episodic piece with abstract characters given the way we interprete the text. Hence Prakash and I play multiroles in the performance and we have many characters to choose from. For this character, as there is a chair given, i decided to use the character of the Emperor. Applying the glide effort i worked on with the laban last lesson, i delivered the line smoothly and focusedly. However i felt that there wasnt a clear beginning and ending as every drama piece should have. Hence there was this bit of awkwardness then.
Round 2
Going to a corner of the room, do a one minute improvisation with a character frm your performance to the lines "why why why"
This time, to spare the awkwardness of the one minute performance, i decided to change character. It is also because i wanted to try and vary the exercise with a different character. However, i chose a character with the smallest role in the performance. The minion. With laban punch and glide movements with my body, i moved around the chair, sensing someone and finally taunting that someone with the words "why why why". This time, there was a clear beginning, however, the ending was not as clear as i wanted a cliffhanger to round things up. I did not get to perform this. But based on my rehearsal, i realized that i might not have defined the space clearly with my movement and neither did i define my character. I might want to use a little bit more time to change my movement so that it will define the environment and the persona more.
In a nutshell,
Today i learnt more about how to define your space and character. With the notes Mrs Kamal gave others i realized how different an act can be, with or without the definition of space and character. these are important techniques which i must do well to remember in my performance.
The actor froze at 5:41 AM
The dramatist.
Bryan
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