REFINING PERFORMANCE IN REHEARSAL

 

 

 

 

In the performance, I played the brother of a young girl called Michelle who was being sexually abused by the brother. In terms of myself developing my performance in rehearsals, at first when i was acting, I was not coming across genuinely instead it looked like i was 'acting'. My posture and gestures were in a sense robotic at first so I decided to be more relaxed and act comfortable as the character i was. during the scene I'm in, I walk in and stare at Michelle. before i was staring at her straight away with the facial expression that indicates I was sexually aroused or deviant. that gave away to the audience what the brothers intentions were straight away so i changed it by being more subtle with the expressions. when I done this, I got feedback saying that it felt much more 'creepy' and 'sinister'. In rehearsals I was saying the dialogue in a normal subtle tone. So i thought in order to bring the characteristics of my character across, i needed to be more forcefull with my speech, more bold and direct so its more believable to the audience.


Me, Synthia and others in the original group would be trying different scenarios to see if it would fit the topic of choice. After alot of disscussion and trying different things for scenes we came up with a solid idea that there would be two families. One family were theres domestic violence and the other family suffering from sexual abuse. we came up with many good ideas with the teachers advice such as using internet forums were we act as if each individual in the group are on a chat forum online and Michelle asks for advice on the abuse shes receiving from her brother. Unfortunately because we had to cut the scenes down to fit into the time slot we was given, we had to scrap the forum idea although it would of been a good scene for the audience.