.:Becoming Portia:.

We went through my monologue first today. The first time I ran through it, I felt rather nervous and I did ‘mess it up’ a bit. But once I had taken into account my Laban movements needed to make myself into Portia, I calmed down, and performed my monologue much better than I originally had. I listened to Ms. Anketell make notes about what everyone needed to do in terms of making their monologue better. We really focused on the Laban movements and breath control. I took into account that my character, Portia, was a character who dabbed, glided and pressed. This is unlike me, as a person, so I am trying really hard to become Portia.

We have a full dress rehearsal on Monday. I realise my teacher was a little annoyed I didn’t bring most of my costume on Friday, but I found out at 11pm the night before! I am going to have by costume by Monday, and hopefully I will look less manly than before! Also, Ms. Anketell had the brilliant idea of filming us on Monday so that we can sit down and watch our performance and see what we need to do. I am really keen on this idea, so that I can make notes about what I need to do. From watching my performance of Tartuffe as Orgon, I really understood that I rushed through my lines, and that really did not sound very good. I really want to focus on my timing for this particular character, and slow it down!!

~ by kateibtheatre on October 24, 2008.