Overall there were several techniques which I utilized within the group scene in order to make the character of Megs come alive onstage. These included tangible actions, emphasis of different parts of the body, the use of my actor’s tools, as well as several tactics. With all of these elements combined, I feel I delivered a strong performance.
To begin, most of my tangible actions revolved around my emotional part of the body. One of the best examples of this was the beer bottle which I would use throughout the scene. When Megs is talking to Martha while she heats up the soup, I made sure to hold the beer bottle around where my heart was. This was effective as it demonstrated that he still was somewhat closed off even to this person who he …show more content…
I had found myself before the coaching session, getting almost glued to the bar stool. I didn’t get up when I said the line about people growing on you, and I had not planned to get up for the line about going to prom. During the coaching session when I was asked to move around a little more and it felt very natural. But what I found to be the biggest change within my work following the coaching session was that I found myself trusting the impulses that I had. This really started with the thought of putting my feet up on the coffee table when telling the prom story. I had almost gone and put my feet up on the coffee table in the run before that was suggested, but I had refrained from doing so. When the idea was suggested to me, I feel like something just clicked in my head and I realized I knew the character well enough to know what he would have done in that situation. Following this the rest of the scenes blocking came naturally to me, I didn’t think about it, I just did, and the amazing thing is that it worked. I realized that by thinking about my every move, I had been weighing myself down and wasn’t doing what would be natural for the character in their given context. Following the coaching session, I stopped thinking too hard, and simply let myself do what I felt seemed natural, which aside from some slight tweaking to ensure that it worked with what Tillie was doing made it into the final
To begin, most of my tangible actions revolved around my emotional part of the body. One of the best examples of this was the beer bottle which I would use throughout the scene. When Megs is talking to Martha while she heats up the soup, I made sure to hold the beer bottle around where my heart was. This was effective as it demonstrated that he still was somewhat closed off even to this person who he …show more content…
I had found myself before the coaching session, getting almost glued to the bar stool. I didn’t get up when I said the line about people growing on you, and I had not planned to get up for the line about going to prom. During the coaching session when I was asked to move around a little more and it felt very natural. But what I found to be the biggest change within my work following the coaching session was that I found myself trusting the impulses that I had. This really started with the thought of putting my feet up on the coffee table when telling the prom story. I had almost gone and put my feet up on the coffee table in the run before that was suggested, but I had refrained from doing so. When the idea was suggested to me, I feel like something just clicked in my head and I realized I knew the character well enough to know what he would have done in that situation. Following this the rest of the scenes blocking came naturally to me, I didn’t think about it, I just did, and the amazing thing is that it worked. I realized that by thinking about my every move, I had been weighing myself down and wasn’t doing what would be natural for the character in their given context. Following the coaching session, I stopped thinking too hard, and simply let myself do what I felt seemed natural, which aside from some slight tweaking to ensure that it worked with what Tillie was doing made it into the final