So.... My school, SFS, performed the one and only ROMEO AND JULIET! And yes, if you're wondering, I was so excited to take part. :) But, no, I did not get a "main" character. I was the fabulous, Rosaline. With exactly the same amount of lines as Servant 12, none. But I was still so grateful to be able to say that I helped take part of this amazing performance. Let me just say that it was absolutely enchanting to be a part of this cast and play. I was quite amazed at how quickly we were able to pull this together and how hard the actors were working to memorize and perform one of the greatest love stories in the world.
(Our Romeo and Juliet)
In this post, I will be talking over...
Actor's Performances:
- individualized or typical acting style
- actor's relationship with groups:moves, blocking, trajectory
- text/body and actor/role relationships
- gesture, mimicry, make-up
- voice:quality, effect of hearer, relationship to diction and singing
(Mercutio in the left; Romeo in the front)
The individualized or typical acting style of the actor's were very dramatized in a way. Besides Romeo and Juliet being either crazy happy and then moving on to worry some depression, the other characters were mainly rather normal with their emotions. Romeo sounded a bit too much like the typical emotionally unstable "Romeo" you see in every movie. The way our Romeo was different was that he was able to add some of his character into the character. The original actor already being on the sensitive side, it was not very difficult to imagine him as the "perfect" Romeo. Juliet was quite amazing. She portrayed that innocent yet desperate state all teenage girls are in. She was able to seem perfectly careless and free and yet taking every news in as if her life depended on it.
There was only Mercutio and Tybalt that seriously stood out in their character as side characters. The actors' relationship with the rest of the cast was quite amazing, in my opinion. How the actors were able to play with the other characters in the cast AND read their hundreds of memorized lines of Shakespeare. It seemed almost effortless for them, even though, I did in fact see the tears, sweat, and blood of the actors memorizing during practices. They played very well off of each other. For example, climbing on each other's backs, running, bumping into each other, dancing and freezing, pushing, pulling, fighting, crying, dying, laughing, limping, helping, and stabbing. Everything was just done so fluidly. I was so proud and honored to be a part of it.Watching backstage, I am not completely positive of how the audience heard or saw or reacted, but I know they must've been just as enchanted as I was.
There was only Mercutio and Tybalt that seriously stood out in their character as side characters. The actors' relationship with the rest of the cast was quite amazing, in my opinion. How the actors were able to play with the other characters in the cast AND read their hundreds of memorized lines of Shakespeare. It seemed almost effortless for them, even though, I did in fact see the tears, sweat, and blood of the actors memorizing during practices. They played very well off of each other. For example, climbing on each other's backs, running, bumping into each other, dancing and freezing, pushing, pulling, fighting, crying, dying, laughing, limping, helping, and stabbing. Everything was just done so fluidly. I was so proud and honored to be a part of it.Watching backstage, I am not completely positive of how the audience heard or saw or reacted, but I know they must've been just as enchanted as I was.
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