Millie's Marvelous Theater Thoughts

 The big aspect of exercise 110 is understanding the play and character that our monologue is in and performed by. We should truly know the story and especially the way our character acts and behaves.  We should be able to mentally become our character. I understand her feeling of true love for Romeo and was embarrassed in this scene because she opened up her heart about her love for Romeo and to find out that he actually heard her must have been very nerve-wracking. We should absorb our character's monologue and the character's behavior and actions. Also when we should read the whole play and even make sure the monologue we picked is still the one they can perform best. I have completed reading Romeo and Juliet. I picked this monologue because I understand the feeling of insecurity of love and the embrassemnt of the reveal of her naked emotion. In exercise 111, they want us to discover all the known facts about our character. I know that Juliet is 14 years old, she lives with...

 We decided to preform a scene about an integration. We had me kill Aishlyn with a knife though the real scene of the murder is up the audiences imagation. The scene opens cricket sounds with red lights (to show the dramatic murder moment) on me with a knife in hand and Aishlinn dead on the ground. I look at the knife and then realize what I have just done. I drop the knife then go into shock with me shaking and rocking back and forth. My hands are shaking and I have my hands on my head in disbelief. Then the camera films Aishlinn’s dead body. Then I go to the table and the lights change to a spotlight (to show how I am intergate)on me. Jackson begins to walk towards me and booming stomps begin. With which stomp I slowly move down towards under the table out of fear. Jackson says hi and I say Hello and then he asks how are you to me and when he finishes I move to be completely under the table, shaking. Aishlinn is then moved to have her body on the table and her hand with my watch ...

 We decided to preform a scene about an integration. We had me kill Aishlyn with a knife and i leave my watch on her body. then Jackson integration me about the crime and asks about the watch and what I did during the crime. While getting integrated, I am shaking of nervousness and I am slowly shrinking down to underneath the table out of fear. Jackson is talking to me but is facing the audience so that the audience feels uncomfortable and part of the scene. We used a lot of effect on the audience like Artaud. 

  She Kills Monster was an amazing show. I loved being part of the cast. It was cool to be a big character in the play. I liked fighting and using a staff. I love being this super fun, confident person. In the show we used a lot of blocking to express emotion of the characters. I tended to act as if the audience wasn’t there and I forced on the scene to express that they seeing the scene yet not part of it. We showed a lot of tension through fighting. For example, at the end of scene 5 we had a big fight scene and the beat drop of the song was like 30 seconds into the song so the adventurers are standing there looking at the misters before they fight them. Same with most fighting scenes. The lighting in the showed some emotion. Like how the light were brighter in the fantasy world than the real world, The atmosphere was complicated because the universe of the real world versus the fantasy world were constantly changing. The atmosphere/vibe in the fantasy world was bravery and confi...

  In Growotowski’s piece, the emotion of the character is very embraced. The focus is mainly on how the character is processing the fact that her father was killed by her boyfriend. The shaking of the table was showing frustrated she is. Also, she was tearing. Screaming and shaking the table was her way of processing her grief. Growotoski wanted the audience to feel the emotions of the actor. The actor used slow movements to show her emotions. She drops down from the desk out of exhaustion and I also believe the relief of releasing her feeling. The tension of the piece is very harsh on the audience because they are understanding this awful feeling of grief and how she is coping through it. It can be seen as uncomfortable as well. The meaning is very powerful because the grief of losing someone important is very terrible to experience and she is expressing this through her screams and movements. She is transporting her emotion to the audience just by shaking a table. The atmosphere ...

  Jerry Grotowski believed that the actor should communicate throughout sounds and movements. The movement and sounds can truly express the actor’s emotions. He wants to break free from limitations and have actors have their full potential. The silence is also very effective. Especially at the beginning of every scene so audiences can contrast between no movement to very intense movements. He also believed our bodies truly express us without words. He liked to use a strong voice. In a scene actors should be one with each other. They should listen and understand one other. He also thinks they should transform an empty space to the setting of a scene. Also embrace the actor's memory. Peter brooks believed that the audience should feel the emotions of the actors. They should be sympathetic towards them. Also human connection is essential for theater. He also let actors explore their character by letting them decide who would feel in the moment. 

Brecht's version has more natural light and she is more serious and with no emotion. In the scene, she puts on makeup for the transition on stage instead of back stage. She takes her father’s money and ring which is the class and society aspects. The music in Brecht’s version is more upbeat than Stanislavski. In Stanislavski’s version the light is dark and her face is more emotional. Stanislavski’s version is progressing slowly while Brecht’s version is more sharp. In Brecht the actor talks as a narrator and then back into character. In Brecht’s version she is staring at us and in Stanislavski’s version she is more emotional and looks at the ground. The tension is present in both versions. In Brecht, the tense is more uncomfortable and weird because the actor shows no emotion. In Stanislavski, the tense is more sadness and calm. She is in sorrow and shows. The emotion is more shown in Stanislavski. The emotion is very sad and grief in Stanislavski. In Brecht, the emotion is more co...