How to stage and perform

In the weeks before, we have been staging and performing a few scenes in class. It was truly interesting and I enjoy the processes a lot. Even though I wasn’t an artful or creative person at all, it’s great to see the scenes that you staged and acted by groups of people including you. It’s easy decide the movement of the characters while it’s difficult to behave in the perspective of the character and gather the whole group together to perform the scene. When the script, the characters, the emotion and movement are all well prepared and acted, it would be a good scene.

It’s easy to decide the emotion and the movement during directing a scene. In the perspective of a director, it’s so clear to see the disadvantage of the actors. As an old saying in China maintained that, “The onlookers see the most clear”. When I was a director, it would be more clear to point out when should an actor stand up, when should an actor move around or when should an actor turn around. Also, it would be easy to tell if the people were over acted, too loud or quiet. Thus, the staging process was the easiest compared to the others.

It’s hard to perform that I couldn’t show the proper emotion as the character has. For example, I tried to act Juliet in last scene, but it’s hard hid my laugh when I saw “Romeo’s” eyes. I couldn’t put my mind in to the one who I performed, so that’s a reason that I wasn’t a professional and good actress. One of the most important things in a play was emotion. Since I couldn’t think like Juliet, I wouldn’t act like Juliet. It’s true that I should challenge myself to be the person that I wasn’t familiar or feel comfortable with, but it’s hard for me to settle myself in in two days as well. I wish I would control my emotion better and then be a delicate actress.

After the difficulties, there are many factors to make up a good scene. First of all, the actors must speak in a proper voice and a proper speed to make sure that the audience could hear you clearly. Then, the facial expression of an actor was extremely important. It should be exaggerated since there were some distance between the stage and the audience. Also, it needed to be accurate to show the happiness or sadness of a character. If the script was the body of a good performance, then the performing of the actors should be the soul to show people the essence of the scene. Every part of the play was presenting by the actors so that I should really be serious to act.

Lastly, I should improve in feeling the emotion of the characters. For example, I should feel the love to Romeo by being Juliet. A good actor should put away all his emotion in the real life and being the character instead. I wish I would feel the characters better and hope to have a good scene next time.