bio/resume: I'm a senior originally from Newport News Virginia. A theatre design major with a minor in film. I have no main focus at the moment but interest in costumes, makeup, sound/lighting design, theatre/film directing as well as script writing for theatre/film. I enjoy learning more about acting as well because i feel it strengthens your knowledge and ability to do your job better as a designer or director. So I have taken a fundamentals of acting class, taught by Carrie Baker in spring of 2007 and now i am taking Intermediate acting taught by Anatoly Anatolin. My favorite kind of acting is improvation, as i feel it (as well as adlibing) adds to your performance as an actor. I am taking this class to not only better my acting skills but to learn how to direct actors better and get involved with their characters more to better design their costumes and ques as well.
midterm scene : text -- Jenna Weisz and I will be doing a Benedick and Beatrice scene from the Shakespear play "Much Ado About Nothing". We will be doing the first scene from the 4th act, when Benedick first professes his love for Beatrice. here is the text:
W's: I am Benedick, I have returned back to the US in 2007 after fighting in Iraq and I am in love with Beatrice. Why? because i realized I actually liked her while i was in Iraq and now i attempt to make her mine. My goal is to at least get some sign that she will be mine by the end of the scene and the main obstacle is her. She will be hard to get and will want me to do something to prove my love to her, that i don't want to do.
Nine Squares: Beatrice enters from UR and X DC. Benedick enters from UL and X DC. First Benedick goes into her territory (RS) and there is pacing in that area, then we move to LS and Benedick corners Beatrice in DL which is in Benedick's territory of LS.
Master Gesture(s): I actually may have more than one Master gesture. I keep my hands on my hips a lot of the time but I also mime a heart whenever i say love or heart.
Biomechanics: The audience can obviously tell I want this girl because I constantly lust over her body, i touch her, I attempt to kiss her and I do kiss her hand two times.
Other character and scene analysis: I am witty, good looking and i'm a hero. There is this girl that I have been around a lot of my life, I have spent a lot of time arguing and fighting with her, but while at war in Iraq I realized that I missed her and more importantly that I loved her. In this scene i want to profess my love, and whoo here to me, get her to love me and start a real relationship. I will do anything for this girl, and if I don't i will make her believe that I will. By the end of this scene she has been using me but I don't realize it because I am blinded by love, and i feel i have won her over a bit and that she loves me back and that we will have something going on very soon.
I am doing my acting review on the first show in winter shorts, "Foreplay". I heard it and saw the ending from it everynight it has been performed as i am in another show that appears in the SDA run winter shorts but I only sat down and watched it one time. That time was early in the run through nights the week before opening night so a bit may have changed since then acting wise. This play is about a man that dated three different women over a period of a few years, his name is chuck and 3 different male actors represent him, 3 different female actors represent the 3 different women he tries to date in different moments of his life. First chuck being him early with young innocent virgins that he actually loved, then him in early adulthood, just trying to find someone to have sex with but also to maybe have a slight relationship with, then a little past middle age, when he is just dating slutty chicks hoping to have some sex. The costumes made it easy to be able to follow this concept, all the chucks were dressed the same just with different colors, first date was very virginal looking, with a long loose skirt and a white sweater as well as very formal shoes. The second was wearing very tight jeans showing off her ascensions but still slightly modest, struck me as a normal type of girl. The final date was dressing very hookerish, high goochi boots, short skirt and a low cut blouse as well as sloons of makeup. I liked how all the actors in this show used their ooo's and ahhhhhhhh's and pucks etc to make it very suggested that they are having sex and not playing mini golf. I especially liked Anna's over exaggerated sexual expressions, mainly how she said "nine more holes". The main actors I watched and critqued were Jenna, Remiro and Anna. For Remiro i would say that opening the play he seemed nervous and unnatural and really needed to slow down. Although as the first five or ten minutes went by he relaxed and I liked his accent on a lot of his sexual words. I thought Jenna and chuck II entrance was a bit dry and boring, they were both too stationary and lifeless. Although Jenna did progress a bit better as time went along as well. She developed really good pitch changes as well as very good sexual stances. There was nothing too negative about Anna's character i thought her character from entrance to exit was good, accent, stance and sound wise. She was a very good slut. One note for all of the acting by Chucks dates is that they did a good job of extreme sexual stance rising in each one from virgin low, to normal a high to slut extremely high. Was a good selectional mix by the director.
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