My First Blogggggg(Lit & Perf)

The story is named "The Glass Menagerie", but it is focusing on a person who doesn't have a direct relationship with the glasses. An ambitious young man, a conservative young girl, and a typical middle age woman are three members of the family. To be a mom and a leader of the house, Amanda puts a lot of efforts on deciding and guiding two of them in their lives. However, Tom and Laura seemingly obey their mom while each of them carries a dream. Both of them are not enjoying the jobs or marriage that Amanda suggests, but they are still making concessions to the family. The glass menagerie represents the dreams of three of them. They are beautiful but fragile.  In the first half of the story, it can interpret from the series of events that all family members doing every day to analyze each characters' personalities and the direction of the story. In the scene7 act2, Tom finally exposes his dreams and ideas to the future to a normal friend. Jim is working in the same ...

In my scene, I want to give an overview to the Tom of the whole story because there is a lot of information given in my scene. It reveals Tom’s ultimate goal and activities in common. It is definitely one of the climaxes of Tom. When we prepared this scene with my partner, I thought a lot of moods or tones when I read Tom’s lines. Tom is a man-show character, even though he looks like a person who doesn't like to talk and like to stay alone, but this scene reflects him as a person who has a lot of moods and ideas but has been saved by him so long. Then I want to interpret his tone to have a sudden change. When I looked around the black box, I did see a real terrace but too big and unmovable. Then I saw a bridge used by The les miserable. I designed the main stage to be the bedroom of TOM. In my opinion, the atmosphere of this scene builds the whole thing up. Jim is the engine of this scene, but Tom is the driver, he is responded to the rhythm. I want to discuss and talk about...

It has a been a long time that we don't have any exercise on performance, therefore I didn't reach my expectation. My old weakness had been exposed to the audience again, which are quiet and monotonous. In addition, I and Yun met a new problem that the extra character took too many lines and dominated the last part of our performance. In order to solve both of the issues, we spent the left days to focus on them. After reading the comments by classmates and using the time at these days, I gradually found my weakness and strengths through the collaboration and communication with Yun. I have been grateful to Yun because he always reminds me when I make mistakes. When I checked my first draft's record, I found that my voices are quiet, and I even didn't have many gestures on hands or emotions on my face. When we hold our books on the stage, the audience felt we were just reading those lines. As the result, we tried to put more emotions while we were practicing the lines a...

Before the first draft, I and Yun were practicing on reading lines for a long time. I always think about the appearance of Tom in this scene because Tom has always appeared as a monotonous man, and I have concerned a lot of the converting of Tom's mood to his tone and expressions. Tom has been a passive man before the scene 7 act 2. Unfortunately, We found that half of the scene is Amanda and Laura's conversation. To complete the time limit, we have discussed very much on adding a character. Our group is the last run of the class, I found that pauses and voices became the important sections that I need to improve. After the first draft ended, I found that many students reminded me to speak louder. I realized that my voice was enough loud to the other performers on the stage except for audience. Moreover, I recognize that many students advised me to put more body movements or gestures. Indeed, I need to prepare more actions on the stage rather than standing there and reading lin...