I really enjoyed our devised performance. I reckon that if we had worked a little bit harder, the whole performance would have been performed really well. I believe that we didn't rehearse enough for the play to turn out the way we want it to be. While rehearsing in classes, everything would go really well, and everyone would share their ideas and the way they wanted to perform, because its their role and they can do pretty much whatever they want and add whatever line they feel comfortable with, but of course it has to be about the play and make sense into it.
The whole devised play, turned out well but I still don't believe that, that was the best of us. We needed more rehearsals. Another thing, during each rehearsal, we would always miss someone, which it leads us to not focusing as we meant to be because, one of us is missing, and we would sit and write ideas down. Which, if everyone was there, we would of been acting instead and that would have been much better. The thing that I really enjoyed about my play was, at the end of the play, we got the whole audience evolved because our play is about murder and detectives, which at the end 'Mary' dies, and it doesn't really show it in the play. Therefore the audience had to pick one of us, and see who was the actual killer. In the play 'Stephanie'. The way she killed 'Mary' was during my scene The Captain and Mary talk, Stephanie enters with coffee, and she had put a death pill into her coffee which killed Mary. This is really hard for the audience to see because they can not see the pill, they only see, when she gives the coffee to Mary (Dulce).
In the beginning of the play, I play as a 'bad' guys, only to confuse the audience and get them thinking that I may be the actual killer. ONE, because I got arrested at the start of the play. TWO, because I was wearing a hoodie and I looked like a killer and THREE because I'm not 'American' therefore they will think that I killed her. Which at the end of the performance, when Dulce said put your hand up if you thing 'The Captain' is the killer, there were 9 hands up, which I had the most, and then when Dulce said put your hard up for Stephanie, she had won, she got one more vote, which I think it was a really close call. Even though there were no signs of Stephanie being the killer, the audience still chose her, showing that the whole audience was concentrating during the performance and they knew what was going on.
Overall, I really enjoyed the final performance, even though we all think we could have done it 100 times better, but we still didn't give up, we gave it our best shot.
Workshop
During acting classes, we would write down each specific thing about who's going to do what and what their purpose in the workshop is. I was chosen to do Vocal and Physical warm up, which what I done was, the person is meant to say their name, then their hobby and then do a gesture to finish it off, for example, (My name's Marion Tasic, I love boxing and then I would throw couple punches), we done this throughout the whole circle. This was a really easy and simple warm up to complete.
The second one was Brunilda, her Game was 'The Wink Murder'. Students gather around in a cirlcle and you choose a detective. The detective goes outside whilst you choose the murderer. When the murderer winks at you, you must play dead. The detective then must try and catch the murderer. Another element my class likes to add the 'dramatic death' where they are allowed to act while they dying.
The third one was Isaiah, his game was the splat game, asks the group to make a circle, when everyone is ready, He will clap towards his right side, and everyone has to follow the clap, and the purpose of it is to focus on the clap and see how fast we can bring it back to him. Our best time was around 1.8 seconds with around 25-30 students.
The fourth one was Tarkan's 'Guess the movie name' where you make a group of four people, and Tarkan would give you a movie name for example 'Titanic', then that group has to create a really short scene from the movie titanic, but before that, a person is sent out and when the groups are ready to perform their little scenes from different movie names, then the person tries to guess which movie they were playing.
The fifth one was Dulce's game, which was very similar to Tarkans game. Dulce gave them a way of death. how the incident happened, like was it a death by gun, knife, curse, etc..
She gave them the word death because our play was about death and it was she who died in the play.
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