Oct. 23, 2009

This week Mr. Smeed talked about Commedia Dell'arte.
My first impression of Commedia Dell'arte was comedy, when Mr. Smeed showed us the videos, the first thing I thought was it being funny. From all the characters I know from Commedia Dell'arte, I actually like Pantalone, because he is a really interesting character. He is a bitter and old man, he is a lonley man, which I like because it is kind of cool to "be" this character, and of course I mean acting. One question I want to ask about Commedia Dell'arte is, what do you do if an actor changed the story line accidently and the whole story changed? I hope to find the answer before the end of the unit. If one actor messed up on the story line, and imporvised too far, maybe it will affect the play.

On Monday, we did this Drama Reflection, we also had to evaluate ourselves and our group mates. I thought that it was pretty easy. I think that group work is really important, even though my group's team work was the best, but it was pretty good, and i'm proud of that. :)
On Wednseday, we watched a slideshow that introduced Commedia Dell'Arte. I heard that we had to find a character from Commedia Dell'Arte and we have to be them for the rest of the unit. I am pretty excited about that, even though I am very nervous about which character I am going to be. We have to know our character really well so that we can be "pros" in our character, which is pretty hard, because you need to do loads of research about that character. I heard that an actor had to lock herself somewhere just to get used to that character, she had to research a lot about that character, I think she stayed locked for a few months. That must be tiring!!!
Even though i'm excited to be a character, i'm still scared, mostly because we have to improvise while acting...which I don't think i'm good at. :( But still....it's going to be fun!