Performance Analysis
For Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew scene that our group had to perform, we made several key decisions in order to more accurately reflect the true personalities of our characters. These decisions affected the tone with which we spoke, the way did blocking on stage, the props in we used as well as the disguises we wore. To begin, our group decided it would be wise to go through the reading several times without acting out the scene first in order to get a feel for what kind of tone we should approach our lines with. Our scene begins with Bianca and Kathrina interacting with one another and, after reading carefully, we noticed that both sisters were in the midst of an argument. This lead us to believe that there was an aggressive tone to the conversation. Our group also realized that the key words Bianca spits out in her first few lines “Unbind my hands, I'll pull them off myself”, required Arianna (playing Bianca) to have her hands tied during our performance. This also allowed us to get a better overall feel for how this first interaction was supposed to be acted out. With Bianca having her hands tied, it gave us evidence that Kathrina was in physical control of this argument and clearly the more aggressive character. Emily (playing Kathrina) thus decided that she would be pushing her younger sister, the rebelling Bianca at key points during this argument. In the middle of this aggressive argument …show more content…
It may not have been perfect, but we're still students of the subject and we're forever learning. The delivery of our lines was probably the weakest part about our performance because of the inherent challenges of speaking Early Modern English. Even so, I believe the preparations we made beforehand about tone, blocking, props and disguises carried us through to a well performed scene from Shakespeare's The Taming of the
For Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew scene that our group had to perform, we made several key decisions in order to more accurately reflect the true personalities of our characters. These decisions affected the tone with which we spoke, the way did blocking on stage, the props in we used as well as the disguises we wore. To begin, our group decided it would be wise to go through the reading several times without acting out the scene first in order to get a feel for what kind of tone we should approach our lines with. Our scene begins with Bianca and Kathrina interacting with one another and, after reading carefully, we noticed that both sisters were in the midst of an argument. This lead us to believe that there was an aggressive tone to the conversation. Our group also realized that the key words Bianca spits out in her first few lines “Unbind my hands, I'll pull them off myself”, required Arianna (playing Bianca) to have her hands tied during our performance. This also allowed us to get a better overall feel for how this first interaction was supposed to be acted out. With Bianca having her hands tied, it gave us evidence that Kathrina was in physical control of this argument and clearly the more aggressive character. Emily (playing Kathrina) thus decided that she would be pushing her younger sister, the rebelling Bianca at key points during this argument. In the middle of this aggressive argument …show more content…
It may not have been perfect, but we're still students of the subject and we're forever learning. The delivery of our lines was probably the weakest part about our performance because of the inherent challenges of speaking Early Modern English. Even so, I believe the preparations we made beforehand about tone, blocking, props and disguises carried us through to a well performed scene from Shakespeare's The Taming of the