drama reflection- 'dead white males'

Drama reflection
‘Dead white males'
By Bethany George

On Wednesday 31st of October the year 11 drama classes presented their group performances to the public audience. It was along and exhausting process, but we all got their in the end.

The play I was in was called ‘dead white males’. It was a contemporary piece that looked at the place of patriarchal ideology in today’s society. My character was Melissa, a 19 year old university student. when i first heard of my character i was a little suprised that i got the character. In class everybody called melissa the 'slut'! this was something i had never played before, so i knew this was going to be a challenge for me, i think mrs mace knew this as well, and it was. when we went throught the play in class i found it really dificult at first to stay away from playing a steriotypical character.

The process in getting to charater i found it hard to get into charater because i don't see myself as a sluty person. i dont hang around sluty people, so i had to go find some examples of it. to get into my character i watched movies such as mean girls and coyote ugly (and the north yr 10s, jks) to get into my character. This help in some ways to get a walk and the way they present themselves. the ideas i got for costume was, well not alot. the people in the movies didnt ware much so for my costume i wore short shorts, and i didnt feel comfortable wearing anything too revealing so i chose a singlet top. matt linn loved it he said "best costume ever".

On the night of the performance, I was definitely nervous but more excited. I knew all my lines, so I was pretty confident with them, I just didn’t want to stuff up. Probably having to wait so long to perform was the worst part of the night; it just gave me longer to work up my nerves. When I finally got on stage, it was so much fun. In the first scene I was in, I was surprised because for the first time the audience laughed at my character. I was so happy I got a reaction from the crowd; it gave me confidence that I had developed my character as I was supposed to.

There was one scene where i noticed i blocked the audience. This was when said a line but put my back to the audience. the sets were very basic so it was easy to have scene changes, and the scenes were shown clearly. As for the lighting, from what i noticed it was just a general wash the whole way through because we did not have alot of time to play with the lights.

Their was only one scene we stuffed up that I was in, I was a bit stumped as what I should do, but I figured my character was the type of person that wanted the attention so I kept trying to say stuff and the other people in my scene cut me of, I think it worked really well, well I hope we covered we well. The only thing I can personally say that would have of improved the play for me, would have of been if I understood it more.

Overall, I think all the hard work and effort we put into the play payed off. I can’t wait to see the video of it.

drama performance-wednesday, week 3

today was our big performance. well not that big. it is quite eciting for me. i have never had such a big role in a play. even though my role aint that bit but eh. i think it was quite a succesful night, alothough there were a few stuff ups. it was funny and yer, nothing we could do about it, so we just covered it as best as we could. i think if people had learned thir lines then i think it would have of gone along alot more smoother.

drama,week 3,monday+tuesday

these days we spent focusing on perfecting our plays.