Midsummers night dream
Extended Diploma in Performing &
Production Arts
I had achieve a B grade for acting in my previous studies before devoting my time towards the UAL performing arts. I am ever so proud of how much I have achieved over the last 2 years. Before starting the course, I wanted to expand my knowledge behind the history of theatre, key practitioners and their different skills and performance techniques which would help expand my skill audit e.g. Vocally, physically and theory wise. I knew I'd be able to achieve this due to attending lessons, doing researching and taking down key notes of things that I'd have learnt or had curiosity about. I would say my peers and teacher were big aspects of my journey as they taught me knew skills and helped me consistently with constructive criticism in order for me to develop. I believe this has strengthened not only my performances but also blossomed within my work. One thing I'd say I struggled with is probably how I articulate and the speech tempo. However, I have grown confident and have full reassurance that I have grown into The young actress I wanted to be at the start of my journey.
My aims for this project is to be able to portray my character not just as how he was written as the simple textbook Peter Quince. I would like to explore using techniques, structure and audiences perception within theatre. I intend to do this by making my character someone worth watching and someone you can learn from. This will be achieve by doing through research on my character and reading the play back to back so I can fully understand the purpose of his role. Also trying a number of exercises and role plays to figure out what extent I am willing to push my character to become. Such as within our lesson we were told to compare our characters to animals we felt related to them. I chose a elephant because elephants have a positive symbol of good luck, power, success wisdom and experience. Because elephants are highly social animals, they are also considered to be a symbol of loyalty, companionship and unity. I believe this relates to my character Peter Quince as he is the leader and Director of the mechanicals and carries the group throughout the play. After doing this exercise it allowed me to play around with character and grow comfortable to morph Peter to my preference.
My aims for this project is to be able to portray my character not just as how he was written as the simple textbook Peter Quince. I would like to explore using techniques, structure and audiences perception within theatre. I intend to do this by making my character someone worth watching and someone you can learn from. This will be achieve by doing through research on my character and reading the play back to back so I can fully understand the purpose of his role. Also trying a number of exercises and role plays to figure out what extent I am willing to push my character to become. Such as within our lesson we were told to compare our characters to animals we felt related to them. I chose a elephant because elephants have a positive symbol of good luck, power, success wisdom and experience. Because elephants are highly social animals, they are also considered to be a symbol of loyalty, companionship and unity. I believe this relates to my character Peter Quince as he is the leader and Director of the mechanicals and carries the group throughout the play. After doing this exercise it allowed me to play around with character and grow comfortable to morph Peter to my preference.
When evaluating my work for this unit I will be looking back at previous notes, what I've learnt and collecting feedback from others on how the performance went. I intend to convey my personal process by adding feedback given to every blog I write. I will be making a summary on each scene I perform in just briefly just to show my progress. I will be looking at the negatives and positives of my performance. Also writing a 'what if' as in what would I have changed during the performance to make it better so next time when I perform, I can learn from previously
Brief notes/research on character
Themes within the Play
Themes within the Play
- Love- The most dominant theme of MSND is Love, love is displayed throughout the play by both fairies and humans but especially by; Hermia, Lysander, Helena and Demetrius.
- Magic- The fairies' magic, Shakespeare uses magic to create the love potion. Although the magic creates chaos when puck mistakenly applies the potion in correctly.
- Jealousy- Between King Oberon and Titania because of the changeling boy who the king cannot stand between he wasn't born to the heir and that the queen shows her long to the changeling more than oberon.
Peter Quince description
- Leader of the mechanicals/Carpenter- Performer/Director
- currently director of the Play 'Pyramus and Thisbe'
- Bookish Character
- Ambitious
- Sometimes insecure
- Patient
- Long suffering in terms of stress and the changes in power between Peter and Nick Bottom
Peter Quinces intention-
- To create and direct the best play for the wedding of Hippolyta and Thesus
- To bring honour and respect to the mechanicals name
- To bring status to his own name as a director without having Nick Bottom jeopardizing this
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