blog due by feb.5

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 are some suggestions for me to have more movement on the stage, which I have to think about how to adjust our scrips. Since Amanda and Tom have a fight by arguing each other which attracts the audience the most. Then, Laura as a shy character has fewer lines would be ignored by the audience. So, It needs me to have more movement on the stage to shape my character instead of standing there by listening to their conversation. The most significant area for me to work on is adding some scene that can show Laura's characteristic and also attract the audience by having more movements and emotional acting. 

    When we are practicing our scene by our group, I have a lines writing " I'm not excepting any gentleman callers, mother." At first, I cannot catch her emotion since she should be kinds of timid by resisting her mother. Then, after discussing with my group members, I imagine that I'm the really shy girl who has been bullied before, so I feel weak and kinds of resisting the world by staying away from others. So my tone and voice should have layers which from high voice to low to show my weakness in my heart. Also, I use this technique by Stella Alder for several times to shape my character, since my personality is totally different from Laura, so I have no previous experience as she does. By analysis her personality according to her lines she has and her movement, I could imagine a girl who has been treated badly and stays away from the world. Also, I also think about my previous experience when I say "mother's afraid I'm going to become an old maid."   I thought about every time when my mum sees my math grades and it disappoints me. She thinks I have no future, but I believe that I could be talent in other areas. So I could not understand why she worries a lot about my math grades. I think it is useless. The memorize helps me act the emotion Laura has at that time.