For the blood wedding research we were given a peace of paper with questions on it from Rob to be completed .
An outline I wanted to achieve personally Within the production was to be able to project my voice And play a big character in the play . I successfully accomplish that by choosing to be the wife in the play . Which wasn't a easy process , I had to work not only by myself but with the hole class . Which involves a lot of team work and independence for this unit . We began very poor with this but became more strong together as a class .
How i learnt how to play my role correctly, i done research at home about how blood wedding is acted out on from different drama schools on YouTube . I mainly looked how my character would be played and practice at home . I learnt that my carry has a very bad attitude and cant stand the sight of her husband . I had to be very angry towards Remal who played my husband and be very insecure when i was out with him .
The weakness we had during rehearsals was focusing , we struggled to focus as a class which caused a lot of frustration . This had cause a few of us to stop rehearsing together as a class. And that effected us together for example where we had the ensemble scene and everyone was on stage . My own personal problems problems i had during rehearsals , was concentrating. I couldn't concentrate well because of the atmosphere in the room , i didn't feel motivated to work and missed out on then time i had to practice my lines .
I also had trouble staying in character during rehearsals , this was because i am very easily distracted and would always start talking . I was also told repetitively by rob to take chewing gum out of my mouth which became a habit. I got round this by stop chewing gum in lessons and i focused more in lessons and listened to any feed back given to me .
Our strength in our rehearsals were communication skills and leader ship, within certain roles giving for our production . For example mine as a production manager I had the opportunity to control them around to do work if needed . I had the lessons given to me where i was able to talk to the students in my class and see how they were getting on the work given to them and if they have completed them by the dead line . We the had Lauren who has a similar role as mine were she was in charge of rehearsals , and had held one a week before the performance in our dance class . Which is another thing i am proud to talk about since as she took the responsibility up as her self to get the class working . My conclusion on how things went are really good and i am glad i was able to keep going and stuck to the work given to me without giving up due to the help we bought together as a class and encourage one another. RESEARCH FOR BLOOD WEDDING . The play "Blood wedding" was written by Federico Garcia Lorca , he was born on the 5th of June 1898 and had passed away 19 August 1936 (aged 38). He was known to the world as a playwright, poet, and a theatre director . the play we performed by him was blood wedding , this play was written in 1932 . And first performed in Madrid in march 1933 .
The play blood wedding is based upon a Spanish background , the name of the play gives you an idea of what it is about . Which two ex lovers stuck in a relationship they are not happy in and began to start seeing each other behind closed door . Most people in the play suspect something going on with them but refuse to talk about it . The bride and Leonardo run away on her wedding and it all ends in tragedy . The themes of the play were generational conflict this may mainly look like its between the bridegroom and Leonardo .
although he is a man the bridegroom is similarly constrained , constantly having to explain his life decisions to mother who cannot understand why he would take the risk of association with Leonardo Felix s former love. No matter how much he tries to convince his mother she still despite the fact his re joining a Felix back into the family . Another theme was in the play that you can see was blame both mother and Leonardo tend to fixate on blame as a way to cope their bitterness about how their lives have turned out .
The Mother believes that knives are responsible for her loss of her husband and son , and Leonardo rapidly shifts the blame for his bad marriage to various people around him. Similarly the bride frequently lashed out on the servant due to her frustration about the impending marriage . We discuss together as a class the style we would be using so that we would be able to play our roles correctly. For example me and Lauren were told to have a lot of hatred towards our husband in the play and attitude . And Rebecca who was playing the mother was told to be given a moody role who always nagging about the Felix family because they have ruined her family and she still has a lot of hat and hurt in her heart
Other plays he has written are "Yerma" it was written in 1934 and first performed that same year . He describes the play as a "tragic poem " The play tells the story of a childless woman living in rural Spain . another play of his which is the The public but is also known as the Audience is a play by the twentieth-century Spanish dramatist Federico Garcia Lorca. It was written between 1929 and 1930.
The style we used for the play was very old fashion we tried to stick to the way they talk within the play . For example the simplest thing like saying
"yeah" rather than "yes " was something most of us had to work on because we kept saying it wrong . we also wore a lot of costume which we though suited the play best . the boys were in suites and the girls had a fluffy skirts and roses in there hair to make it look traditional. The make up for the play was also very good were we had ,Maya making mums and dad in the play look older . We cut out a lot of scenes through out the play which i was a bit disappointed about because i was looking forward to do the wedding scene and the killing scene between Leonardo and the bridegroom . For our rehearsals things that worked was my miming with giving the drink to Remal while we didn't have prop . also the scene between the mother and bride when she comes back worked pretty well . Also the dance worked really well we picked up the dance pretty quick and performed it good . The parts that didn't work well were the scene were Obafemi had to sneak up behind his bride and hugged her . This was a struggle for both brides because one was shorter than the other and one didn't feel comfortable . Also another that didn't work well was when Obafemi had to add a little part on his acting last minute and had kept coming on stage the wrong time . For the performance our strength were knowing our lines and playing our characters good , we all knew the dance very well and had been on stage on time majority of the time throughout the play . we was good when it came to projecting our voice on stage and looked directly to the audience when needed . Our weakness f or the play was concentration at one point the group want focusing well . one performance went terrible and we had to stay behind as a group to fix the mistakes we made . the main problem we had was going on stage the wrong time and some end up laughing on stage . Then there was a lot of noise going on backstage due to the noise because some were talking and he girls had on hills which were making a lot of noise which was bad for the actors on stage cause you can barely hear them . Looking back from where we began as a class we have improved a lot and mature in a way . we have learnt to deal with situations better and work together in a better way . the main thing i have learnt this year was to be confident something i thought i had already . .
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