The Cherry Orchard performance was extremely successful and I think that everyone pushed themselves to the best of their ability. As a form, we decided to take a more modern approach to the play which I was original and creative. In my opinion, it was the best run through that we as a form has ever done! One aspect I think we all developed was our transitions and pace of each scene. We focused on this just before our performance and I think that really helped us to keep a flowing solid performance.
I feel that one of the main strengths of my performance was the fact I knew all my lines, as this enabled me to become a lot more confident and in depth with my character as I feel that I was able to fully get into my role to portray her to the audience. I feel like knowing my lines confidently helped me to fully understand my character and what she was feeling at the time. I was also able to confidently add in pauses where I felt they were appropriate.
I also found that the warm ups Sarah did with us before our performance really helped me to develop my voice and helped me to pronounce my words exactly how they should be said in order to be understood. I find that when I'm nervous I become quieter so this helped me with my projection so that my lines could be fully heard across the room. I managed to get some feed back from my friends in a rehearsal, who told me that I needed to work on my voice. I feel like this constructive criticism really helped me to do the best I could in our final performance.
I have learnt a lot about Naturalism over the course of this term which I have really enjoyed. However I find that if your not in full understanding of Naturalism then it can be quite difficult to understand. Stanislavsky's system really helped me in my understanding of Naturalism. It helped me to find my super objective in my character. At first before learning about the system I found Naturalism quite difficult to understand and portray, however once I understood it I felt it was much easier to explore with. In the future I would like to explore naturalism further and develop my skills furthur.
When exploring Anya, I tried to understand how she is feeling in my scene and what her character was like so that I was able to portray her naturally. This helped me develop a further understanding of her and how I would present her in my final performance. Throughout my performance, I kept in mind Anya's objective and why she was there. This definitely helped me to progress my character further and make myself understand why I was there. This also helped me to have more confidence in my stage presence as I understood where I was and exactly why I was there. I wanted to portray her worry and love towards her family, by analysing my hand gestures and facial expressions.
In my opinion, I feel that everyone did really well in their performance and got into the mindset of their character. I felt that one of the strongest performances was Bret's portrayal of Lopakhin. I really admired how he managed to portray the bitter and stubborn personality including projection of his voice. His performance stood out for me because he was one person that really engaged me to watch the scene he featured in. In his scene he is trying to persuade Ravenskaya to sell the orchard and I feel that he managed to portray how Lopakhin has a selfish and greedy personality through his facial expressions and hand gestures, as well as his variety of tones in his voice, as he would become high pitched when he started to get agitated. I analysed his hand gestures and facial expressions throughout his scene and I feel that he really got into his character as much as he could. I find people who really engage with their character really admiring!
Overall, I feel that my performance as Anya managed to be successful after all of the hard work and rehearsals that we have had over the term! and I am extremely happy in myself with how I did and with our final performance. I feel that I managed to stay truthful to my character throughout the scene. Over this term, I have already learnt so many skills such as Stanislavsky's system and all how truthful performances. I feel that my form did well in performing The Cherry Orchard and can not wait until our next performance!
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