Review of Fall Play

Christeena Aaron

Mrs. Guarino

Acting

Review of the Fall Play

On November 10, 2016 I went to see the Cheshire Academy production of James Joyce “The Dead”. The kids did a great good performing their characters. I enjoyed the play a lot. It was nice seeing John act out what we had been working on in class to his fullest potential. I was seated with Linda and Michael and we all had fun watching the unexpected twists in the story.

I liked the dancing and singing the most I think out of everything. In those scenes, you could tell the performs were having fun and showing off their talents. I liked how fast the intermission was, it felt like barely five minutes had passed before the second act. I wish there was food during the intermission. I couldn’t see every scene and not just because of where I was sitting. I liked the eye contact the actors gave when performing a serious monologue. It gave the scene more emotion and depth. I was shocked to find out that Aunt Julia died. She was a joyful presents on stage. That was heartbreaking to me, I was hugging Linda for a while after that. When John’s wife  was still in love with her dead ex-boyfriend I only felt bad for John for some odd reason. The whole acting class was very proud of John and was hooting and screaming when it was time for his curtain call.

Sometimes during the show it was hard to hear what people were saying so maybe the volume of voices could be louder. So blocking with furniture made it hard to see people's faces. It was shorter than I expected but still jammed packed with action and dialogue. For my first Fall Play at cheshire Academy I was impressed with what the Black Box theatre itself had to offer. I was worried about it being to small but it was the perfect size.

When to the play "The Dead"

Blog 6

Christeena Aaron

Mrs. Guarino

November 4, 2016

Reflection on Scene with Linda

While performing this scene with Linda, I learned to compromise when it came to what role was to be presented. I wanted the same role Linda wanted but since we have two scenes to perform she got to choose what character she wanted with one while I had the other. I learned that it is better to have good energy and more enthusiasm while a person performs. This keeps the audience interested in the performance being displayed. I feel like I did well on memorising my lines and acting out the frustration i Felt while Linda’s character was annoying mine. In the next scene, I need to work on staying in character and becoming more of my character. It was easier to snap out of character when there was something funny that was said so I need to focus on being more serious about my character. Linda and i need to be careful about not harming each other when we want to hit or trip each other. When we were practicing it sometimes became to physical for both of us to handle. We need to be less intense when it comes to physical action.

Draft for Scene

Chrissy

Mrs. Guarino

Acting

First Draft

My scene is about a woman(Chrissy) in a grocery store who wants a specific chips in a certain container. She goes to grab them but another woman(Linda) gets them and they have a fight over the chips. Mean words are said and some physical action is displayed but finally my character gets the chips and walks away. I think Linda and I need to be more focused on how to present our lines and what physically actions we should do. The first draft we were hitting each other but it actually hurt so we need to pretend like we are fighting but not actually cause pain on each other. For the most part we have the lines down but we need to be certain so we can focus more on the scene then what to say next.

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Blog 5

Christeena Aaron

Mrs. Guarino

Acting

Oct. 14, 2016  

Blog 5

The silent movie has probably been my favorite project we have done so far. It was fun and entertaining to create and watch. It was my idea to have the plot be where two people are in a room then one leaves and gets locked out and the person in the room is to distracted to notice. Michael, Linda and John added a lot of depth and substance to the plot which made it comedic. In the silent movie, I enter the room, which is a dorm i share with Linda. Linda is searching for something and when she realizes it's not in the room she asks me to make sure to open the door for her for when she returns. Since the item she lost is her key to the dorm. When she leaves I look through her bag to find weird music but then decide to play my own music. I am dancing around the room not aware that Linda was knocking on the door trying come in. I never notice until I turn around and find her and Michael on the floor with a broken door. I can tell they are very mad at me so I run out of the room. It took a couple of days to develop the story line and figure out what songs we wanted to use. John was our director and filmer, while Linda, Michael and I were in the project.

Blog 4

Christeena Aaron
Oct. 5, 2016
Mrs. Guarino
Acting
Blog 4

The movement project for me was  good. I found it hard to pick moves for a routine and find a song. Once Micheal and I found a song though, it was easy to understand what emotion the song was conveying or what emotion we wanted it too. I liked our idea where, there was a feather that symbolized freedom and content. We had to find the feather and catch it but nothing comes easy so it was a struggle to catch the feather but at the end it was successful. We found our happy ending with the feather so we could move on with our lives. I felt like Michael and I's performance was good but could have been better. We had a purpose and a story but it could have been acted out more clearly for the audience to understand. Maybe more movement or more stage presence for the both of us.
As a group, we both agreed on the message of the song but had difficulty with a routine. The idea was in our heads but putting it out there to present was hard.
The movement project was definitely a helpful start to think about for the silent movie. I know what I want to do better on in this project and in the last project, which is making sure the audience knows what I'm doing.