Dec. 4, 2009

This week in Drama, we were researching about our Commedia Characters.
My character is the famous, Pantalone.

I thought of my scenario, and thought it was pretty funny and that situation might happen to Pantalone. We had to use that scenario and perform in front of the whole class on Friday, I was really really nervous, since it was a solo monologue.
I practiced the whole week, and something I found hard was... learning how to do Pantalone's voice and his movements. It was wasn't as hard to do his movements, but it was hard to sustain them, and keep the movements like that for the whole 1-2 minutes.
Something easy was thinking of the scenario. It was fun imagining what Pantalone would do, and what the audience would think of the situation.

When I performed it, I was nervous at the last minute. Luckily I practiced it many times, so it didn't turn out that bad.
At the middle of doing it I relaxed more, because it felt like I knew what I was doing and what my character is trying to do too. It was much easier than what I thought it would be like. So that was good.... :)

Next week we are going to work on our "troupe project"
My group is....Brighella, Columbine, Puchinella, and me (Pantalone)
I think this group is really interesting, and I hope we will think up something really funny. :D