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.

drama-week 2,friday,term 4

today was our dress rehursal. im wasnt really nervous, more because im sick and thats messing with my head and i cant think strait. also because we are performing it to my sisters drama class, which means when i go home she will give me feedback on it, maybe unwanted feedback.
nah but it was all good. the play went actually really well i think. i thought we were so unprepared that we would have to be prompted the whole way through, but we actually did pretty good, minus the last two scenes which we stuffed up a little. but oh well, luckily we still have till wednesday to polish it of as much as possible. im excited WOOT.

drama-week 2,term 4

For monday and tuesday we were going through our play. we have our dress rehursal friday so everybody is kind of freaking out. i know most of my lines, there is only one scene i am a little unsure of my ques. and it doesnt help that i am feeling sick, i just hope i get better by friday.

drama- week one, term 4

hello again,
another exciting term of drama ahead of us. this week we got straight into our play. we went through scenes of the play, learning them and our movements on stage. i found this useful, but its funny because sometimes when we did scenes i was the only person not in one, so i would have to just watch and help as much as possible, but this also helped because i got a better understanding of the play.
i also got my 'prayer to an iron god' Review draft back. there were alot of corrections on it. but i kind of expected it becuase it was a rushed job. it is due monday now, i plan to do it over the weekend, i wanna get a good mark cos i want an A in drama hehe and one of those blue's things they give to students who are involvened in drama lots. it seems if i set higher goals to achieve i have more enthusiasm to do the work, well it seems to be working for drama, not so much for my other subjects.
bye bye

drama-holidays

hmmm...soo the drama play...yersss...not much happened in the school holidays rehursals, we spent the first day doing character building activities, they were good, but not really useful. the second day was spent going through our plays, in our groyups. half the people wernt there so it was hard for me to work of other people that were just reading the lines out and not actually acting it. i thought the time could have of been spent doing more productive stuff on the first day. like going through our plays, because i think alot of us needed to and we have not had enough to do that. it also would ahve been good to spend some time learnign our lines maybe. the second day was spent alot more productive it think, i found alot more things out about my character when Ms Mace came and helped us with our play. like how to pronounce some of my lines and stuff. i think we might not do very good cos we dont have much time, and some people dont have the enthusiasm for it.