- Energy is a very important aspect of acting, since it the core of every action and line you deliver, keeping the attention of the audience in you and what going on the stage. It also helps you with your character development and how you present them, for example, if your character is more laid-back, you need to bring your energy up, and if your character is more aggressive, keeping your energy emphasis lower gives the needed contrast to not overwhelm the audience and keeping the balance of the play in place.
Energy can also be used to emphasis certain parts of the play. Especially when putting on a comedy, with lots of gags and jokes to perform, it is important to know how to use your energy in different levels to build up to the main joke. Rather than keeping the energy level the same gag after another, you can use energy to your advantage to create varying kind of jokes. - Focus is used plenty in rehearsals, but is also a crucial element during performances. It is part of making the perfect working environment, a place where there are no giggles and chats during working hours. By focusing on what your are supposed to do, the work is done much more efficiently and the work done is better quality. It helps us stay in character on and off the stage. Focus is also necessary part of performing, when you are on or off stage, you MUST know your cues perfectly, and be focused at all times, to know what to do if and when someone(or you yourself) messes up.
This seems to be a very difficult part to comprehend for our group, and it has been a clear problem since the beginning. It is very hard to go and tell others to stop chatting or giggling besides you, and easily breaks your own focus as well. To fix this, I feel that everyone needs to make a true commitment to this course. What I can do, is try to ignore others losing focus during class, and not drag myself into the dreadful cycle of giggling. - Complicity is all about being aware of the things you and the people around you are doing and acknowledging their actions. Complicity is heavily linked with focus, since focus is needed to create a good relationship within the group, the ensemble. It the kind of energy that the whole group shares, and is able to feel and use as an advantage, for example to predict each others actions, or use it to do something in unison.
- Trust has a lot to do with being able to truly let out your inner demons lose, and have some kind of bond with the other actors to be able to give your all during rehearsals and performances. It is not only trusting the others to catch you when you fall, but also trusting yourself enough to be able to embarrass yourself in front of everyone. You must trust yourself to be able to take on the responsibility of helping your peers when they might mess up or fall.
Initial response to the scene
The scene we started to work on, is the scene right at the end(p. 227-230). It is set two years later than the scene before it, focusing in the tiring room, starting with only Doll, Mrs. Barry and Rochester in the room. Mrs. Barry has become quite wealthy and famous actress and is actually counting her money in front of the dying Rochester. Apparently, Rochester has drunk his liver away, and is now suffering the cold consequence of dying because of his greatest pleasure. He manages to confess his love towards Mrs. Barry for the last time, also revealing his thoughts about Mrs. Barry's coldness towards him, and how he think that all Mrs. Barry ever wanted was money. She doesn't deny this, but actually confirms after Rochester dies, that she feels nothing of his death. After this, a woman has come their door, seeming to be begging for something, It turns out, that it is actually Nell who is withered to be just a shadow of what she used to be, because of syphilis. The king has died and Nell has been left to die apparently alone. It seems, that she has come back to the playhouse to remember back on the times she still was working there. The scene ends with Doll telling a terrible story about the bear pit the playhouse used to be, comparing the actresses at the playhouse to the bears.
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