Scene Reflection

Christeena Aaron

Acting Class

5/6/17

Scene Reflection

This week I performed a scene from the Glass Menagerie with John. John was Tom and I was Amanda, his mother. It was one of the last scenes in the whole play. The scene escalated quickly. It was short but a lot of things happened. I thought it was full of misinterpretation.  Amanda was very upset with Tom because she thought that he knew Jim was getting married and didn’t tell her. Tom claims that he didn’t know that Jim was getting married. He believes that work friends are just that work friends. People you work with for the money you get at the end of the week. Amanda can’t seem to shake off the feeling of betrayal from Tom. She thought being best friends from work meant something more than just working friends. However, I think she is mad at herself for ending up in this position too. She blames Tom for the fact that she is a deserted mother and tries to guilt him by saying that he is leaving behind a sister who is crippled with no job. It is sad to see how quickly they all fell apart. Tom can’t deal with all the yelling and screaming and quilting and accusations so he walks away from Amanda. Tom tells Amanda he is going to the movies and Amanda loses it. But than Tom tells her about the amount of yelling she does makes it quicker for him to go. Amanda so tied up in emotions tells him to go and he does go. He doesn’t come back either.

I think the hardest part about this scene was how to approach it for me. I remember it being hard to  not rush through my lines. It was hard to memorize the lines also. It took me a lot longer than I thought. But once I had them in my head it was easier to block the scene and perform it.

Liv and Michael are still working on there scene with each other which will be great.