Lesley

   In a story filled with madness, sadness and hopeless, Laura is extremely shy and sensitive. At the same time, she is quite nervous and depression while Amanda and Tom are fighting since she would like to have a cozy and warm family. Amanda's nagging about gentleman callers annoyed her, which shows she doesn't care about any gentleman callers. She drops from the business school because of her timid to communicate with people. She escapes the world by staying away from others, which implies she could not live as a normal people do. She is immersed in the world which is filled with the glass menagerie. That's also one of the reasons why Amanda is worrying and feels hopeless. She is the person who kinds of connecting the family together. The scene is from Act 1, scene one. The conflict starts when Tom is coming back, while Laura and Amanda are having dinner. The scene plays an important role in the whole story since as the foundation of the whole story, it implies ea...

introduce a little background about the scene and especially points out that Amanda requests Laura to get any gentleman callers, which she is not interested in. Then, discussing Laura's characteristic that how she stays with others. At the beginning of a scene which we chose since it shows the family situation and clearly implies each of character personality. Talk about the scene which means the relationship between Laura and Amanda and the gentleman callers. the argument between Amanda The way to show her characteristic. she is shy and quiet. she has fewer lines, but she should still attract the audience in some ways. like there are some details movements which could show her nervous. lower voice. When Amanda asks her about the gentleman callers, she would be afraid and prevent to talk about the topics. The voice goes down and looks back or look on the ground, afraid to make eye contact.    About my monologue, which is one of the most important scenes to show m...

    After changing our scrips several times, we finally performed our scene on Friday. The accident happens in my monologue influences us a little bit, but our performance is better than the first draft in general.  For me, I have more movements and lines this time especially the monologue part, which could show Laura's characteristic and her crazy in glass managerial. Also, It seems like that I get more into the scene than before instead of staying out of from Amanda and Tom's fight. I have more movement details to show my nervous and uncomfortable when they are arguing each other. For example, I rowan my dress and kinds of play with my fingers by myself. Since I have been told to have more movement from the classmates' review. I kinds of tried to walk back when they are fighting to show my afraid. Moreover, at the second part of our scene, I don't have lots of lines, which needs me to have more movements to attract the audience. It's the time that I could sh...

Based on the feedback you received on your first draft, what things are you working on and what rehearsal techniques have you tried in order to improve your performance?   According to the feedback from the audience, I acknowledge that I still have some area that I should work on especially for shaping my character Laura. It's undeniable that the audience could distinguish our characters since we act differently on our characters' personality apparently. However, for Laura, she is not only shy but also special. She is kinds of staying in her own world instead of getting contact with the world. There are no lines included which could show her world by being crazy to the glass menagerie in our scene which could not show her characteristic clearly. Also, since I care a lot about the audience, so I'll feel nervous by acting in front of them. It leads me to have some embarrassing movements such as putting my hands in my pocket which apparently shows my nervous. There...