The Tempest: review on my performance
My character was Trinculo - A consistently drunken jester, who is a servant of Alonso's, and brought ashore in the shipwreck. He is a dull fool mostly, not capable of any real action, and providing a good deal of comic relief.
My costume - grey hat, grey blazer, blue bandana scarf, white t-shirt and blue jeans.
At first I tried this on as a joke but Adrian said it'd look good and suit my character so that was the inspiration for my costume.
In the early stages of rehearsing the scenes I couldn't find a voice for me to develop for my character. Adrian suggested I take up a high pitched voice due to my character being a comical one. The effect of the high pitched voice makes it funny because it's unusual for a grown man to have a high pitched voice. This decision paid off well as it got a handful of laughs from the audience(students in our class).
After watching the performance back over on video, I noticed that my speech wasn't always clear. I feel that because I was having to speak in a high pitched voice it caused me to speed up the tempo when I was speaking. I do feel that it's something that I must improve but I'll work on it.
I felt that my strongest scene was in my second scene where Ariel interferes in a conversation between Stephano and Caliban and she pops up, unseen, and says "thou liest" towards Calliban and they both think that Trinculo is saying these words and so he is getting blamed. In this scene I think my characterization was much greater because my movement and speaking was clear rather than my first scene, there's also a little bit of physical theatre, when I throw my chair and Maisie(Stephano) kneed me in the ribs.
I feel my overall performance was well done as I done what I was asked to do though I could improve on my tone of voice.
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