We began the session with a
warmup. This included some stretches to get our muscles warmed up, the
intercostal diaphragmatic breathing exercise, diction exercises, tongue
twisters and consolidation exercises. We then moved on to working on my 2
monologues.
We worked on my contemporary
piece first. I am now very close to having all of the lines secure for this piece.
There is now only one line which I can repeatedly not remember and therefore I
just need to focus on learning this line and then the whole speech will be
secure. Also this morning, we have been working on my characterisation. Before
the Easter holidays, I was working very hard on the characterisation and was
becoming very close to the character of Mavis. However, due to the break, I
have lost this characterisation a bit and am therefore working to get it to
where it was and then push past this to make the piece even better. The more
that I work on this piece and the characterisation, the better the piece will
become. I will do this by using my emotional memory (Stanislavsky) by remembering the first time I moved to college and said goodbye to my parents. I can therefore apply this feeling of homesickness to the very start of my piece as Juliet is saying 'Farewell' to Romeo.
Once we had worked on my contemporary
piece for a while, we moved on to my Shakespeare piece. When I was beginning to
learn this piece, I really struggled with understanding the Shakespearian
language and therefore found it hard to learn the monologue. However, as time
has progressed, I now have a clearer understanding of this type of language and
this has led for me to be able to learn the speech. I have not learnt all of
the speech just yet but I am very nearly there. After some consideration about
the length of the speech, my lecturer and I have decided to cut the speech down
a bit because the speech is too long and I wouldn’t be able to perform all of
this within an audition because they state that an audition piece has to be
between 2 to 3 minutes long. My current piece would be a lot longer than that
if I was to perform the whole thing and therefore we have cut some of the
speech out in the middle to make it more appropriate to the addition situation.
When doing this, we made sure that the speech still made sense. I know need to
concentrate on learning the last small part of the speech and then I will be
ready to take to an audition.
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