Final Blog Post
I clearly remembered how was the first day of this class. We warmed up to be familiar with acting. To a person who had not experienced any performance ever, performance undoubtedly became the part I spent time to think the most. Two years course is a long run, but it impresses me more than the other classes I have taken in Cheshire Academy. Before I took this class, I thought acting is easy like until we tried to improvise various moves and gestures in front of people. I felt shy and embarrassed at the beginning, throughout two years' performance, and I became more and more confident to act in front of people and cameras. The class is called literature and performance so the other essential aspect is its literature. I still remembered the first book we read and the first performance, which is the monologue we played in the black box.
Fences talk about poverty and situations of African Americans. From the book, I felt how the power from people themselves explain the anger and unsatisfied emotion to society. On the stage, there was nobody teaching me how to act and I eventually finished my first performance. When I finished, I was aware of the true difficulty of playing a character on the stage, which is totally different from your life. The thing we do is trying to cheat audiences by our performance. The greatest thing to sit in a classroom is watching how do your classmates do. Learning from them, I analyzed why their acting grabbed my attention or attracted me. I gradually knew what should I do and not do during the performance. All of us among this group has gained some precious experiences from watching and communicating from others.
For every major performance we prepared for, we read and learned from its book weeks before. Lines from R & J are always hard for me, because I had few experiences of reading ancient English. People may only heard about the story of R & J, but they might not know about Shakespeare. We read Shakespeare and we saw main ideas reflected by Shakespeare in the script. Writers always write issues of the society and they reflect them on their literature. I didn't know what kind of mood we should have when we play R & J. R & J is definitely about love, as an actor, but should we bring the other emotions as a person who have already seen the ending and problems behind that tragedy to play this character? I believe the answer could be both, and that's our freedom when we play a role. There is the freedom of literature. When people nowadays analyze Shakespeare's literature like us, we may find out more valuable details that build up the story and characters, yet those details were neglected by Shakespeare himself. This is what I believe in acting. Acting in your most confident way with your unique and rational comprehension of the literature.
The R & J performance we had in the park outside is one of my most memorable performance. Not only because it was too cold but also the stage and crew impressed me. The performance was free and there was a great number of people gathering there, and I could see the profession of actors. The music and scene changes, the costumes and performance overall were great. We also went to the other two theatres to feel the drama on the stage. Watching experience outside the school were stunning, and opportunities for me were brought by this class. Two years is a long journey full of happiness.
Fences talk about poverty and situations of African Americans. From the book, I felt how the power from people themselves explain the anger and unsatisfied emotion to society. On the stage, there was nobody teaching me how to act and I eventually finished my first performance. When I finished, I was aware of the true difficulty of playing a character on the stage, which is totally different from your life. The thing we do is trying to cheat audiences by our performance. The greatest thing to sit in a classroom is watching how do your classmates do. Learning from them, I analyzed why their acting grabbed my attention or attracted me. I gradually knew what should I do and not do during the performance. All of us among this group has gained some precious experiences from watching and communicating from others.
For every major performance we prepared for, we read and learned from its book weeks before. Lines from R & J are always hard for me, because I had few experiences of reading ancient English. People may only heard about the story of R & J, but they might not know about Shakespeare. We read Shakespeare and we saw main ideas reflected by Shakespeare in the script. Writers always write issues of the society and they reflect them on their literature. I didn't know what kind of mood we should have when we play R & J. R & J is definitely about love, as an actor, but should we bring the other emotions as a person who have already seen the ending and problems behind that tragedy to play this character? I believe the answer could be both, and that's our freedom when we play a role. There is the freedom of literature. When people nowadays analyze Shakespeare's literature like us, we may find out more valuable details that build up the story and characters, yet those details were neglected by Shakespeare himself. This is what I believe in acting. Acting in your most confident way with your unique and rational comprehension of the literature.
The R & J performance we had in the park outside is one of my most memorable performance. Not only because it was too cold but also the stage and crew impressed me. The performance was free and there was a great number of people gathering there, and I could see the profession of actors. The music and scene changes, the costumes and performance overall were great. We also went to the other two theatres to feel the drama on the stage. Watching experience outside the school were stunning, and opportunities for me were brought by this class. Two years is a long journey full of happiness.
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