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Proposal

Name:      Tia Scarlett Candidate Number: Pathway:  Level 3 Acting Project  Title:         Final Major Project Review Throughout this course, I've developed acting skills that could be useful in the industry and could set me apart from other actors, such as staying in role, even when I don't have lines. I've also had the opportunity to develop skills with assistance from external companies, such as the 'Broken Hearted Youth Theatre Company'; for example, through workshops with them I was shown how important and useful emotional memory is when intending to make your acting naturalistic. In addition I've come to understand how effective and significant certain things are that prior to this course, I would have found more irrelevant, such as putting effort into learning lines as soon as possible, 'The Cherry Orchard' was a perfect example of this as I learnt my lines very early on in the rehearsal process and this left me with a...
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Caryl Churchill is a British playwright  known for dramatising the abuses of power, for her use of non-naturalistic techniques, and for her exploration of sexual politics and feminist themes. She  was born in London, on the third of September,1938 and grew up in Montreal. She wrote her first play, 'Downstairs',  while she was still at university, and it won her an award at  the 'Sunday Times National Union of Students Drama Festival'. Caryl always manages to have her pulse  on the moral, social, and political issues that are current in our society.  She is and has consistently  been throughout her career, a formal adventurer  in terms of her theatrical language,  so that she’s constantly challenging not just literally the language  in which theatre is spoken, but also the context,  the theatricality and the dramatic landscape  in which she works.  In that sense she is one of the great innovators ...
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Rehearsal

For love and information, the class was split into two groups.  I was away on the first day of rehearsal but I was informed that the my group had chosen and designated scenes to people, e ach person in the group has been assigned three to four scenes in the play. I was assigned: Fan:  A two person scene in which both characters are arguing about who loves and obsesses over another person more, this allowed me to use the technique of emotional memory, remembering how I've felt during arguments and debates with people where I was sure I was in the right, just like my character. The other actor and I both agreed that from the impression we got of the two characters, we need to portray our characters as unstable, desperate and manic. One way we attempted to do this was by having another actor in the scene, standing in between us as we pull him from side to side. Shenagh made a directorial suggestion to make the man in our scene a celebrity we had kidnapped.  We like thi...
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