BUUUTTTTT.... its just very very time consuming and draining..
wow... drama and emotionally packed, it involves a very through work over, ALOT of research, and just tons and tons of skills that i will have to pick up!!!!
So here is what i have listed down so far.. just to guide me along a bit..
(Answers to these questions will be added as i arrive at them and will be put up in GREEN)
- Need the physicality, how to react to being in a cave...
- I need to know how to bend, what muscle to bend, wheteher the poeple in those days even bernt like that!!!!!
- Do i hang myself? What causes me to do that? If i dont hang myslef, am i thinking of it as i say my lines?
NO, im NOT going to hang myself.. i will not be thinking of it as yet... towards the end.. after i have finished saying my lines, my expression will show realization and a sense of being in a trace.. looking at the cloth, hinting that i am going to hang myself..
- What is the climax? How does the emotion vary as compared to the other parts of the play?
Yes, there are ALOT of variations.. from fear to anger to hope and strength to sorrow to reasoning to pleading to acceptance and determination.
the climax is found in the last few lines of the play... when she says-
"And now he leads me thus, a captive in his hands; no bridal bed, no bridal song hath been mine, no joy of marriage, no portion in the nurture of children; but thus, forlorn of friends, unhappy one, I go living to the vaults of death. And what law of Heaven have I transgressed? Why, hapless one, should I look to the gods any more--what ally should I invoke--when by piety I have earned the name of impious?"
- The emotional range has to be at 10 at all times... how do i keep it there but yet stretch it when i get to the climax?
- How do i want to portray this? It is a greek tragedy, but do i want to play it to a modern audience? Do i want them to feel it? What can they connect to? How can they connect to it? What allowances do i make to the way i play itt to portray the fact that i am indeed playing it to a modern audience? How much of the 'exaggerated' greek performance style do i still keep?
- Am i claustrophobic?
No, i am not. BUT, when first thrown into the cave, i react negatively to the dark, stinky and enclosed surroundings.
- I need to figure out just what my chracater is like, her varying chracteristic, religious beliefs, the way she was brought up,
All done.. written in other posts...
- her relations to her brother, father, mother, uncle, aunt, uncles son and basically all the characters in the play.
- I need to keep in mind teh fact that the greeks performed to the Gods, to entertain them, so they consider it a great honour, a very serious task, they do it wholeherartedly, with faith an all... How do i show this? If i should show it at all...
- Am i going to be physically touching the cave? Fall down at a rough surface? If so, what does that fall result in? Do i get outraged? Do i suddenly burst out in anger? Do i feel the wall i8n desperation?
- What do i look to for hope and how come i suddenly find piece when i remember my parents?
- What was the importance of the Kings orders in that time?
- What did the brother do? Was it a crime that was to be condemened? Do i want to tell this to my audience? Or do i just want to lay a different backstory for them to show whose side i am on (Whethere i think justice is beiong done to me, whethere i did te right thing mby burying my brother....)
- Is my character confident in what she did? Does she beliebve it was the correct thing? Or is she still having an internal debate?? Or is she just pleading with the Gods, asking them why they did this to her, and if she had done it differently, would she have gotten away unpunished?
- How do i get the audience to have a feel of that century and the emotions and the problems and hurdles that my character is coming into contact with?
- How do i make the issue seem important to them? How do i instill in the the same feelings that i feel as a character, when they don't know the traditions of that time or the emotions that i am going through.
- How exaggerated do my actions get?
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