On the day of the show we had four hours to perfect the show before it was performed at half one. In the lesson that we had with Jill we focused on the stage set, on how we were going to have the set up where different bits and pieces were going to go.
We decided to to the bulk of it in centre stage and have little section of it stage left and stage right for example we did the the part were Helena is pouring tea on a stage block on stage right, you could still see her but you could tell that Alison and Helena weren't in the same room.
We also thought about each characters main goal in the piece what they want to achieve by the end of the performance. As I was playing the role of Helena, my goal in the performance was to leave the flat and get away from it all. Helena's character believes in good and evil and as she says in the piece 'after ever wanted or had she has been doing wrong and evil' Alison's goal is to make Jimmy see what she has become and what she turned into, show him that she has hit rock bottom and cant get any lower that she actually, in her opinion there was no way that she could rise from that. Jimmy's goal was to be noticed and see that he isn't a horrible person all the time he is just misunderstood and all he wants from Helena and Alison is for them to understand how he is feeling and what he is thinking.
Friday 20 June 2014
Evaluation
Evaluation
We did the performance of Look Back in Anger by John Osborne.
We took a section of the script and brought it to life. When doing the scene, Helena was talking to Alison, imagined i was just talking to a friend that it wasn't on the stage so that i could give the most natural performance possible, this made it easier was I wasn't necessarily trying to act I was just talking as if I was just talking as a normal person. When leaving Jimmy i used emotional memory i just imagine back to when my parent got divorced and we had to leave, thinking of this memory in the piece help show that Helena really did love Jimmy and didn't want to go but she knew what was right and the right thing to do was to go. This really help in the piece because it wasn't just one emotion thought out the piece it was showing that Helena as confused, upset, anger and vulnerable all in one just like I was when my mum and dad divorced.
I believe we gave a pretty natural performance. Slight things changed in the performance to what was actually rehearsed for example when Jimmy entered and was making Alison feel bad in rehearsals i shouted at Jimmy but when it came to to the actual performance i was more set make and quiet and just said it i slightly louder tone just not shouting.I think this would be more effective as I was told by one on my class mates said that it seemed like Helena had more authority over Jimmy which didn't seem right.So we changed it and in the performance i was told that it looked better when i was quiet rather than shouting at Jimmy.
In rehearsals i thought that i moved way too much so in the actual performance i found it more natural to stay sat down because it didn't feel right moving all the time, instead I twiddled with a tea cup, or moved my hair instead which seemed more natural rather that constantly moving.
We did the performance of Look Back in Anger by John Osborne.
We took a section of the script and brought it to life. When doing the scene, Helena was talking to Alison, imagined i was just talking to a friend that it wasn't on the stage so that i could give the most natural performance possible, this made it easier was I wasn't necessarily trying to act I was just talking as if I was just talking as a normal person. When leaving Jimmy i used emotional memory i just imagine back to when my parent got divorced and we had to leave, thinking of this memory in the piece help show that Helena really did love Jimmy and didn't want to go but she knew what was right and the right thing to do was to go. This really help in the piece because it wasn't just one emotion thought out the piece it was showing that Helena as confused, upset, anger and vulnerable all in one just like I was when my mum and dad divorced.
I believe we gave a pretty natural performance. Slight things changed in the performance to what was actually rehearsed for example when Jimmy entered and was making Alison feel bad in rehearsals i shouted at Jimmy but when it came to to the actual performance i was more set make and quiet and just said it i slightly louder tone just not shouting.I think this would be more effective as I was told by one on my class mates said that it seemed like Helena had more authority over Jimmy which didn't seem right.So we changed it and in the performance i was told that it looked better when i was quiet rather than shouting at Jimmy.
In rehearsals i thought that i moved way too much so in the actual performance i found it more natural to stay sat down because it didn't feel right moving all the time, instead I twiddled with a tea cup, or moved my hair instead which seemed more natural rather that constantly moving.
Emotional memory
In one of our Stanilowiskis workshops we did Emotion Memory. The idea of this is to be able to think of a memory that links the emotion that you are trying to poetry an put across, eg: Sad emotion=Sad Memory, Happy emotion=Happy Memory. You do this technique to be able to give really raw emotion instead of just putting it on.
We all sat in a circle and all said a memory, most of the memories that were said were quiet sad.
I really didn't like this method at all. It was physically tiring. If you had to do this everyday for 2 weeks for a touring show you would been emotionally and physically tired after it all and it could mentally effect you as you are revisiting a memory that might not be a nice memory to think of. It would be a good method if you where only doing the show say twice then you not getting as much impact as you would if you were doing it for 2 weeks.
Jill also gave us another task. When telling our story when we had finished we had to tell a normal story but convey the same emotion into it, for example my story was the idea that I had lost my shoes, which in itself doesn't sound very sad because it isn't. I made out that I had made a promise to my mum to look after then and that I had broken that promise by losing them and I was getting more upset about the fact that I had broken my promise as that is something that I don't do. I found this lesson really really hard. If I were to do the lesson again I would have thought of a happy memory instead of sad as it wouldn't have been as emotionally hard or tiring
Wikipedia
We all sat in a circle and all said a memory, most of the memories that were said were quiet sad.
I really didn't like this method at all. It was physically tiring. If you had to do this everyday for 2 weeks for a touring show you would been emotionally and physically tired after it all and it could mentally effect you as you are revisiting a memory that might not be a nice memory to think of. It would be a good method if you where only doing the show say twice then you not getting as much impact as you would if you were doing it for 2 weeks.
Jill also gave us another task. When telling our story when we had finished we had to tell a normal story but convey the same emotion into it, for example my story was the idea that I had lost my shoes, which in itself doesn't sound very sad because it isn't. I made out that I had made a promise to my mum to look after then and that I had broken that promise by losing them and I was getting more upset about the fact that I had broken my promise as that is something that I don't do. I found this lesson really really hard. If I were to do the lesson again I would have thought of a happy memory instead of sad as it wouldn't have been as emotionally hard or tiring
Wikipedia
'Affective memory was an early element of Stanislavski's 'system' and a central part of Method Acting, (two related approaches to acting). Affective memory requires actors to call on the memory of details from a similar situation (or more recently a situation with similar emotional import) to those of their characters. Stanislavski believed actors needed to take emotion and personality to the stage and call upon it when playing their character. He also explored the use of objectives, actioning, and empathizing with the character.
Thursday 5 June 2014
Jimmy.
Jimmy
Jimmy is Alison's husband.
When he is spoken about in the play he is described as being very futile and short temped but why is this? Has is got something to do with his childhood?
Jimmy is in the upper working class category in the working class system. When it comes to Jimmy's childhood he talks alot about how much his friend Hugh's mother was so important to him, she was mother of a mother than his own. She gave his a great start to life by setting him up with a sweet stall so that he is earning money. When the new of Hugh's mothers death comes about it hits Jimmy like a tonne of bricks, the women that ment so much to him and did everything for him is now gone and there is nothing that he can do about it, it is destroying him.
Jimmy has alot of bottled up anger and he takes most of it out on Alison in a verbal manner, most would say that he is just being abusive but maybe it is more than that, what if Jimmy is taking it out on Alison because like he saying in the pay there is never a bead of sweat on her forehead or a hair out of place and he may think that she can make the pain go away because she has stuck around for this long.
As the play goes and gets to the end of the performance he starts to become weaker and more vunriable. It feels like he is reverting back to child like state as he just wants everyone in the play especially Alison to understand he and realize that he is just a very anger person and he cant help the way that he is, he tries so hard to bottle it all in as much as he can so that he doesn't cause harm to the people around him and people that mean alot to him. He does have a good side this is shown when he and Cliff are messing around and playing and they both fall into Alison and she burns her arm on the iron, he tries his best to apologize and show some compassion to the fact that he has done something wrong and really hurt her, Alison shouts at him and flips out and leaves the room.
Jimmy is Alison's husband.
When he is spoken about in the play he is described as being very futile and short temped but why is this? Has is got something to do with his childhood?
Jimmy is in the upper working class category in the working class system. When it comes to Jimmy's childhood he talks alot about how much his friend Hugh's mother was so important to him, she was mother of a mother than his own. She gave his a great start to life by setting him up with a sweet stall so that he is earning money. When the new of Hugh's mothers death comes about it hits Jimmy like a tonne of bricks, the women that ment so much to him and did everything for him is now gone and there is nothing that he can do about it, it is destroying him.
Jimmy has alot of bottled up anger and he takes most of it out on Alison in a verbal manner, most would say that he is just being abusive but maybe it is more than that, what if Jimmy is taking it out on Alison because like he saying in the pay there is never a bead of sweat on her forehead or a hair out of place and he may think that she can make the pain go away because she has stuck around for this long.
As the play goes and gets to the end of the performance he starts to become weaker and more vunriable. It feels like he is reverting back to child like state as he just wants everyone in the play especially Alison to understand he and realize that he is just a very anger person and he cant help the way that he is, he tries so hard to bottle it all in as much as he can so that he doesn't cause harm to the people around him and people that mean alot to him. He does have a good side this is shown when he and Cliff are messing around and playing and they both fall into Alison and she burns her arm on the iron, he tries his best to apologize and show some compassion to the fact that he has done something wrong and really hurt her, Alison shouts at him and flips out and leaves the room.
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