Shakespeare Monologues

On Wednesday we performed our Shakespeare Monologues.i chose to perform lady Macbeth monologue because I found it interesting and I could put some emotion into it. Things that went well was that I was confident and was focused and I knew what I was doing and saying. Some things that didn't go so well was I rushed a tiny bit and I skipped some of the lines. What I need to do for next time or for a audition for drama school is that I need to learn the monologue properly and don't rush so much as the audience won't understand what I'm saying.

Stanislavski Research

Konstantin Stanislavski was a Russian stage actor and a director who developed the naturalistic performance technique known as the Stanislavsky method, or method acting. He was born in 1863 in Moscow, Russia. In 1888, he founded the Society of Art and Literature. As the years went past he decided to work and provide a guiding method for actors to use and develop, he believed that the actors needed to inhabit authentic emotion while on stage and to do that they can draw upon the emotions. he also developed his own method to get the actors encourage to explore their characters motivations so it gives the performance depth. He was born Konstantin Sergeievich Alexeiev. He adopted the stage name Stanislavski in 1884 to keep his performance activities secret from his parents. Up until the communist revolution

in 1917. and actions in the characters they try to perform. Furthermore, some of Stanislavski method acting is basically in seven steps, these techniques where:

1.   Who Am I?

2.   Where Am I?

3.   When Is It?

4.   What Do I Want?

5.   Why Do I Want It?

6.   How Will I Get It?

7. What do I do to overcome it?

Anton Chekhov Research

Anton Chekhov was born on the 29 January 1860 and  was a Russian playwright. Chekhov is often referred to as one of the three seminal figures in the birth of early modernism in the theatre. He wrote different play such as The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Three Sisters etc. Chekhov renounced the theatre after the reception of The Seagull in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre. The play The Seagull was produced in 1901. Chekhov's mother was a storyteller and entertained children. him and Stanislavski began to work together and also played a part in chekhov's play The Cherry Orchard. Anton Chekhov also playing a vital role in Russian society, according to Malaev-Babel. As a medical doctor, Chekov interviewed and treated thousands of political and criminal prisoners and settlers over the course of three months. Shocked by what he saw, he wrote a book titled The Island of Sakhalin documenting his experiences.  As a result of Chekhov's work on the census and book, Malaev-Babel observed, Russian society was confronted with their first exposure to the terrible living conditions and treatment of prisoners and settlers on the island. How he managed to develop his craft was during writing letters which he sent to his writing contemporaries and at the same time family he would discuss work and ideas he had about story craft. All the ideas he created and mentioned back in the 1800's are still valid today in the month of May 10, 1886 a letter to his brother Alexander who is also a writer was sent in which Chekhov jotted down 6 valid principles each story which is good should contain these are:
1. Absence of lengthy verbiage of a political social economic nature
2. Total Objectivity
3. Truthful descriptions of persons and objects
4. Extreme brevity
5. Audacity and originality: flee the stereotype
6. Compassion all looking as though they massive foundations to bring the pieces to life from the page and bring more essence or ingredients to the story so we see varied amounts of tones and emotions throughout the plays and layers such as using objectives and other tools as sources to develop and expand on the character we are playing and the play as a whole.

Engaging with an Audience

We watched Level 3 Dance/ Musical Theatre performance which was involved with chairs which was very different and they got their choreography inspiration from Beyoncé. They had some chairs on one side and some on the other side and they did various movements on the chairs and they repeated those movements for 15 minutes, but to make it not so boring they did movements in cannon so we could see on one side what people were doing. What they could improve on was the know where the chairs are roughly are because some people bumped into the chair and someone didn't know the movements probably so maybe they need a couple more rehearsals so everyone knows what they're doing.