Drama
This week we started looking for material for an assessed monologue performance. We were to find three plays which we believed would have a suitable monologue for us to use, read them over and over and choose which one we thought we could perform to the best of our ability. It was very important to read the play over and over again because there is no way that one can take in every piece of information from the work after just one read. Reading the play many times gives you a deeper knowledge and understanding of the work and allows you to pick up details which you have have missed or misunderstood in previous readings. With this excellent understanding of a play, it is made much easier to challenge a character and their monologue.
It is important to invest money in plays, not just to expand a personal knowledge of theatre and writing, but to support the industry, discover new writers and explore different genres of theatre. By reading three plays before selecting the most suitable, you give yourself a greater choice of characters and monologues. You are also able to compare the pieces, as opposed to having just one play and not knowing whether another would have a more suitable monologue that would be a better choice to perform. Reading plays is essential to the development of an actor because the more you can read, the more experience with theatre you can give yourself.
We used the website doollee.com to look for writers and plays that we thought would be most appropriate for us. Doollee is an online database of playwrights and theatre plays which allowed us to search through thousands of different works. Some of the plays were not available to buy, but the contact details of the writer were listed on the site. As actors, it is good practise to contact writers as you can find brand new plays and pieces that nobody else has seen before, collaborate with writers to find a piece perfectly suited to you and build up a list of contacts that you enjoy working with and respect the work of.
Looking through Doollee, I found three plays which I believed would be of use to me:
This week we started looking for material for an assessed monologue performance. We were to find three plays which we believed would have a suitable monologue for us to use, read them over and over and choose which one we thought we could perform to the best of our ability. It was very important to read the play over and over again because there is no way that one can take in every piece of information from the work after just one read. Reading the play many times gives you a deeper knowledge and understanding of the work and allows you to pick up details which you have have missed or misunderstood in previous readings. With this excellent understanding of a play, it is made much easier to challenge a character and their monologue.
It is important to invest money in plays, not just to expand a personal knowledge of theatre and writing, but to support the industry, discover new writers and explore different genres of theatre. By reading three plays before selecting the most suitable, you give yourself a greater choice of characters and monologues. You are also able to compare the pieces, as opposed to having just one play and not knowing whether another would have a more suitable monologue that would be a better choice to perform. Reading plays is essential to the development of an actor because the more you can read, the more experience with theatre you can give yourself.
We used the website doollee.com to look for writers and plays that we thought would be most appropriate for us. Doollee is an online database of playwrights and theatre plays which allowed us to search through thousands of different works. Some of the plays were not available to buy, but the contact details of the writer were listed on the site. As actors, it is good practise to contact writers as you can find brand new plays and pieces that nobody else has seen before, collaborate with writers to find a piece perfectly suited to you and build up a list of contacts that you enjoy working with and respect the work of.
Looking through Doollee, I found three plays which I believed would be of use to me:
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| That Face by Polly Stenham, Noughts & Crosses adapted from the novel by Malorie Blackman by Dominic Cooke and Disco Pigs by Enda Walsh |
However, although these were enjoyable to read, none had suitable material in the form of a monologue which I could use. On further reading I found a play called Like Dreaming, Backwards by Kellie Powell. I believe that a monologue I have chosen from this play will be appropriate for me and that with work I will be able to perform this to the best of my ability for the assessment.
Dance & Vocals
We continued our progress learning Nicest Kids In Town, our ballet and jazz pieces and our various techniques.
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