Assignment 6 - Meagan Hale

During our performance, I thought that Silvia's character development was best during her part as Lane. Her respectful stature made her character as a servant believable. I attempted to have a more snarky demeanor since masters aren't required to show the same level of respect towards their servants. I thought Silvia and I both managed to stay in character. I also believe we articulated our lines well enough so that the audience could understand us as well as projecting loudly enough. In my opinion, we used the space efficiently. Though we didn't use much space, we used the small amount of space effectively. We chose to keep our area smaller because that seemed more natural. Had we walked all the way across the stage we would have used all of the space available to us, however, that would seem very awkward. We didn't want to use space just for the sake of using it. We kept our zone smaller so that we maintained a natural sense in our scene. Silvia was much more prepared than I was. Her lines were memorized as mine were only partially memorized which showed in that her overall performance was better than my own. I thought that our overall performance was good however I know that it would have been better had we both been more familiar with our lines. This would have kept our speech from being strained from nerves and the act would have flowed more naturally.

I've always been afraid of acting however this experience has shown me that it is nothing to fear and can actually be fun. I knew the story was a comedy but I didn't realize just how funny it was until I performed my scene and watched my peers perform their scenes. Seeing it visually as well as hearing they way it was meant to be performed opened my eyes to the hysterical nature of the play. Simply reading it was comedic but no where close to the level of humor as seeing the actual performance.