Rehearsal Reflection

After reading the play for the first time, I was happy about doing Posh for our final play. The characters were funny and interest, and the play itself was funny. I was happy for the character I got chosen to be (George Balfour), which made me more interested in doing the play and trying my best effort in succeeding in this performance.

The whole rehearsal process was a really good experience for me. It was hard at times because of the space we was rehearsing in, but we didn't have a choice. I am just happy it turned out really well after we only had three days to rehearse in our final space with lights and music.

The MPA (Method of Physical Action) technique helped me to learn my lines quicker for the play. I didn't struggle when learning my lines. Although I didn't have chunks of text to learn, but it wasn't as easy when I also have to know what is going on in the scene, and knowing my q's. So I had to read the play couple of times for me to understand it.

During the ten weeks of rehearsing, we have had ups and downs. Like 5/6 weeks through, not everyone learned their lines which was a problem, because by that time we should of been focussing on the acting and directions, not on the lines, but we had a talk as a class and from then things seems to be better. I had fun watching other people rehearsing and receiving notes and directions from the director, because in that way I found ways of improving myself and taking on other feedbacks such as connecting with my lines and reacting. Those are the main things in acting as well as clarity which is what I had my most problems with. Also using my posh accent with clarity. I gave myself enough time to work on my accent, but I don't think I focussed on it as well as I could of done, and I am talking about at home, not just in class.

A week before the play and the play was looking really good, and I am talking from watching the majority of the first scene and feeling the energy from when I get on stage. The energy was also another problem not just for me but for the class as well. This play takes on a lot of energy all the way through, and levels of drunkenness. We did improvs in class to help us with that which was the best thing about rehearsing and making things look realistic. My favourite improv is the once when we were doing different stage of being drunk from 1-7, from being kinetic to high alert.

We did four performance with different audiences, and my favourite performance was the final one on Thursday evening.

If I could do this play again, One thing I would improve on is my accent, and take more time in practising my accent.