Evaluation : The Tragic Tale of Melissa Mchiney McNormous McWhale

Evaluation Of Final Performance : The Tragic Tale Of Melissa Mchiney McNormous McWhale.


When the performance started the I feel as though the timing of my pose was precise because I anticipated it and I used the physicality of my body to create levels so that others could be seen and really exaggerated my pose so that the audience could see the character I was impersonating. However I was disappointed with how I executed my movement when we had to freeze when Zayn turned around. The point of this was to manipulate Melissa’s intelligence (Zayn) and Mock her for being different and although that did come across as what we were doing - toying with her. I could have taken advantage of my body more and be more creative with my movement as much as I was in rehearsals. I also believe this is to do with spacing aswell because the positions and movement is quite random I feel like people kept changing the positions that they were doing so the blocking was not implemented into out performance because we changed it everytime. So I didn’t have much spacial awareness and I had to quickly freeze before the turned by around so it wasn’t exactly clean.
I noticed that at one point when Melissa finally catches us out and we run around, when we stop I stop behind Melissa and therefore now can not be seen by the audience.
       We created small scenes to represent the persecution of Melissa, I found that at the beginning of my scene, you couldn’t really tell what was happening, the timing was a bit off because I get picked up by Remel and put back on to the floor by the time I get to the floor Ryane and Leigham are supposed to be there standing in front of me in there abstract form but they weren’t so I had to improvise a bit. Coming to the end of the scene the lighting wasn’t on us enough but maybe that helped because it showed the darkness of persecution and at that moment I was on the floor being brutally kicked. So literally being kicked when I was down.
       In my opinion the partner work was really effective as I remember in that moment taking on all the emotion I imagined my character would have. I embodied her fear and became the victim, so reflecting back I used that fear and translated it through my movement emphasising my physicality. One thing I feel could have been improved was the dynamics of that particular scene. Because we were all doing the same movement as an ensemble we should be all positioned evenly, it would look more powerful and provoke more awareness to our theme.
        When I was being dragged by Zayn as one of her children I had to say my lines while being dragged and watching it back I feel like at first it wasn’t visible that I was talking, however people became more aware once they heard the strain in my voice because I was being dragged.