Peer assessment during rehearsals and Improvisation

Peer Assessment During Rehearsals

Is the actor trying to apply imaginative, creative , movement and emotion skills to their performance ? 

ACTOR: Daniel Adeosun as Don Pedro 

DON Pedro

From right at the beginning of the scene as Daniel walked onto the stage , he has embodied his character physicality and emotional state right from the start of the scene, moreover, you could see that he come on as Don Pedro and not Daniel Adeosun. As I observed Daniel in the scene I could see that he knows something bad is going to happen even before anyone has spoke, Therefore, I could see he did his research on the scene and what he believed his character was feeling and saying to the audience through his words and physical attributes. Daniel Adeosun character has statue and he uses the statues to his own advantage by looking over Leonard's family and reassuring them that he is better than them without saying a single word.

Daniel has very good stage presence continuously as Don Pedro, this results to him looking alive and open in the moment of the scene/play, moreover , this implies that he had done research on his character and the scene that he is in. Since Daniel is very open, this means that he was able to bring across his characters emotions and mental state at that moment in the play, which was Anger and vengeance over the wrong that he believed that was done to his friend Claudio by the Young Hero daughter of Leonato.

Whilst performing Daniel knew he's cues and lines, this resulted into him being swifter with his lines. In the wedding scene Daniel physicality implies that he is the leader even though he is not right in front , he brings a sense of power even without talking and before he talking. 

Daniel has found the fear that Don Pedro brings to people and he shows this through the little lines he says and the little questions that make such a big impact that you feel like you were in the wrong even when you are not. Daniel knew his lines from when he was first on stage, therefore, this helped him to find freedom in his scene, freedom in his character and just having fun in living in the moment.

 

Comments On The Improvisation Work

My group decided to improvise the vibe of the American training of the Iraqi soldiers, which are formally known to be the watchmen and Dogberry and Verges are seen to be the American training team for the Iraqi soldiers in our version of Much Ado About Nothing. I believe this improvisation was very effect to help the watchmen build character because it made us tighter as a group and instead of being completely separate it helped us to tighten our group as a unit. I believed that this helped me to build character as the first watchman because even through we are named 1st,2nd, and 3rd we are actually the same and no one out ranks the other, therefore, I feel that the improvisation helped us to strengthen the connect between the character. The improvisation was also effective to do because it helped us to show a side of the watchmen that the audience and cast don't really see, through our lines and scenes, therefore, it helped us to look deeper at our characters and their relationships to Dogberry, Leonato and each other.

The comedy is our quick scene really worked because it wasn't really meant to be funny , however, since we began to find the dept of the characters as the improvisation went on the comedy of the characters came with it because they are natural really funny characters but we don't see that much of the comedy side of them, therefore, this improvisation helped shed a light on their characteristics and objectives. In addition to this even the scene was quite funny , the funny moments of the play helped us to also bring out the true seriousness of the scene as well because we are actually training for war and that aspect of war and battle sometimes gets lost as the play goes on.

I have noticed from our research on Iraqi rebels of the golf war that the Soldiers would of used sign language or some sort of sign language because they wouldn't always be close enough to talk to each other especially if they are sneaking up on people, moreover, we have looked over this idea of sign language and incorporated it into our scene , when we arrest Conrade and borachio.

Group Rehearsal Notes 

Our volume needs to be clear and articulated throughout the plays running, especially in our performances space of the theatre because it's so much bigger and wider than our performances space. 

Try to use all the space that is provided you do not always have to be in the middle of the stage, make sure you spread out and just live in the moment of your character. As your character you need to make sure you play the opposites with your line because we need to look a the lanuague and see what is your character really trying to say and how does your character really feel. 

PLAN 

1) Talk about what happened= done 

2) How did this help you to build character? = done 

3) Talk about comedy in the quick scene and seriousness in the quick scene= done
4)Talk about research on Americans training of Iraqi soldiers