Evaluation - The Cherry Orchard

one of my main strengths was my voice, I effectively projected and pronounced my words and used it to convey meaning. This benefited from the vocal warm ups we performed before hand and having energy in the scene. In rehearsals a note that i had was finding the levels in the scene. Lopakhin goes through a huge array of emotion for such a short scene, linked to that i needed to heighten the emotions i had the increase the various levels in the scene. i think i achieved this on the performance. I achieved it through going over the scene and looking back at the units i created and objectives I made. the objectives for each unit were what helped most to achieve the heightened levels, going back to them and analysing them specifically helped to find the true meaning in the scene and find realism. I also found it easier in the performance to be immersed fully into the scene.

When you have an audience you are forced to take yourself out of the room and into the scene you have many people watching you and it is necessary to block them completely out to keep focus and the best way to do that is to be fully part of the scene feel as though you are truly going through the scene as it happens. Without an audience it is harder to create a fourth wall as you can allow yourself to be in the room as it is more rather than creating the world you are in fully.

In many people's view lopakhin is not a ‘good’ character however in order to play him i had to find his reasoning behind these actions. When you are performing it is not as simple as good and bad but peoples drive to achieve something and deal with the obstacles in their way. This is where the system helped. Finding objectives and intentions helped me to build the scene and character. To understand a person you must understand what drives them to make those actions and you may perceive to be good or bad.

If I had longer to develop Lopakhin i would start to develop his physicality more. Lopakhin is not a straightforward character as he has the initial upbringing of a peasant so his nature is that of a peasant but he is putting on an act himself of a higher class. he is a merge of inherited poverty and learnt wealth. This also makes him an interesting character as he himself is putting on an act. if i had more time i would work to find the moments where he shows each side more and the company around him in that moment that effects that. I could also develop hid objectives further and split his units further and add active verbs to the script to continue his philosophical analysis and develop realism.

I believe I did effectively convey his objectives as in the moment it felt truthful and natural. i felt a flow in the scene and felt his levels flow into each other through reacting of of Elois, her performance felt incredibly truthfuly which helped me to react truthfully.