Assignment 6- Silvia Todorova

Meagan and I choose the opening scene of the play. I played Lane and Jack and Meagan played Algernon. Algernon and Jack are characters that are wealthy socialites so when we played those characters we tried to act a little snobby and hold our heads higher. For example, I was acting really judgmental towards Algernon when I was playing Jack especially when I mentioned that Algy was always eating. I was worried we wouldn’t be able to stay in character and get distracted, but I think we did a pretty good job of not loosing character.  As Lane, the manservant, I tried to show that Algernon was the boss and that Lane worked for him so stood behind Megan so she could show her authority. I wish we would have done English accents to add more character to our roles, but I felt like we projected our voices and tried not to turn our backs to the audience. We chose to sit at an angle so we could face each other and the audience at the same time. We could have used the stage more then we did, we didn’t really walk around much we just sat at the table and read our lines. I felt that we used good props and costumes that added to the over all presentation of our scene.

I was really nervous to preform this because I’ve never had to act out anything in front of an audience. It went a lot better than I was expecting and as I was not as nervous once we got started, I actually enjoyed it. I don’t see myself having an acting career in the future, but this experience has made me feel more comfortable with acting. Acting it out helped me understand the comedy better because I got to practice the lines and add mannerisms too them. I’m also glad I went and saw the play at UK because it was a lot easier to understand the comedy when real people were acting it out and I wasn’t just reading the lines of all the characters on my own.