Bad Acting

A few days ago, we had a performance at Arts Umbrella. Throughout the play, we lay down in several different spots, and were required to be "dead" for extended periods of time. Halfway through the performance, it dawned on me that I was in someone else's spot. Sneakily looking behind me, I saw the other actress sitting on a bench, facing the wall. I felt like the biggest moron ever for taking her spot, and making her sit at the back. At the intermission, I talked to her about it, and she asked what I was going on about. I realized that I was, in fact, not in her spot, and that she was at the back facing the wall for a monologue that happened soon after. And the performance went well and everyone lived happily ever after.

Sam
~Sognare é Brillante~

"God, I'm Beautiful..."

God I'm beautiful. I was just coming out of the bathroom the other day, and I saw myself in the mirror: I saw my beautiful blue eyes, and gorgeous dark brown hair, and got a sudden burst of confidence. I sprinted across the street to the nightclub, and started dancing like a priest at a LMFAO concert. It was insane. Then, due to my extraordinarily amazing good dancing skills and, no doubt my great looks, I met a few girls, got their numbers, brought a few of them back to my place, went onto my bed, and played monopoly. Life is great.

Sam
~Sognare é Brillante~

Do you want an apple?!

I found this exercise to be helpful in finding characteristics. I find that, next time, it could be helpful to do exercises like this (but possibly more in depth) on characters that we already know of, and have worked on for a while. Of course, if we're doing monologues that we have yet to write, this could prove to be slightly difficult.

I can't go to rehearsal tomorrow. I know it's short notice, but my mother fell while climbing the italian alps, and now we are about to fly towards Toscana to help her get back to the neighbouring province of Veneto. Deeply sorry, Jim

Sam
~Sognare é Brillante~

Excuse

Sorry everyone, as much as I'd absolutely love to come to rehearsal today and see all of your ecstatic, quite stunning faces, I, unfortunately, can't make it tomorrow. What happened was my sister's best friend's boyfriend was throwing the football around with his friend while I was studying my lines outside on the porch, when all of a sudden, my sister's best friend's boyfriend threw the football and it kind of... Well... It hit a tree which fell and knocked a bird out of the air which, in turn, accidentally flew into my head and gave me a third degree concussion. I know won't be able to act again for another few months.
Truly sorry,
Sam

Sam
~Sognare é Brillante~

Inspector Billingsgate

For the first summative, I found this to be fun, well worked out, and I don't think there was anything that I'd change about it. I found there was a good amount of time for prepping, same with the set design. One thing I wish we had done was make it slightly more playful and go deeper into the characters that we worked on.

Sam
~Sognare é Brillante~