In my scene, it mainly focuses on a conversation between a desperate girl and a friar. Which girl needs to find a solution to escape the marriage, so desperate is Juliet, she even uses the knife to threat the Friar in order for a solution. Finally, Friar gives her a vial for fake death. So in scene part, it happens a lot, which means I could add more gesture or actions depend on my interpretation of Romeo and Juliet. I will play Friar Lawrence in the story, in my opinion, Friar Lawrence is a character who does not belong to any side, he was not Capulet and not Montague, so his starting point of helping Romeo and Juliet is to make peace in Verona, from his selfishness, he agreed Romeo that he will help them about the marriage. However, as the time moves, I think his personality changes to be positive which he stands in the same line with Romeo and Juliet, where I read the line about how he comforts Juliet before Juliet threats him. In my mind, Friar Lawrence is a good guy, he does lots of things not following his heart. Take the vial as an example, if Juliet does not threat him I think he would not think about that thing. Even though he is an alchemist, that thing is too devil and too bad using on a noble family’s daughter. So when I perform Friar Lawrence, I need to think about his personality first, and then place myself into that situation, and see how I perform the Friar Lawrence from my perspective.
For the given circumstance, I am Friar Lawrence who lives in Verona as a friar and an old friend of Romeo. The time period is the time after Romeo and Juliet got marriage but after Paris met with me, then I meet with Juliet. The main plot is that Paris found me in order to arrange a marriage between Juliet and him. He is the noble in this city and he has not excuse to reject Paris. However, in his mind he has not a solution for solving the problem of Romeo and Juliet, former is banished from Verona, latter one can not share her happiness with others. What a sad story, but now he has no choice. Possible future is that he opens a marriage between Paris and Juliet, even Juliet will feel sad about it, it is the best solution to the circumstance Or maybe he could use his vial to do something, but he won’t use this vial than he has to do it. Friar Lawrence’s strength is that he is candid and likes to help others, but because of his strength, which makes him stay in nowadays’ situation. Also, I am concerning about one characteristic shows on him, the role of the alchemist. This role makes him become unique with others, he could have the ambition to do the things, but also the role of the alchemist is also his vulnerability, he can not publish this role to the public because he is a friar in the church, two contradict roles made him afraid of using alchemy to others.
I think before I perform Friar Lawrence, the first thing I need to do is to understand him. His main goal is to let Juliet drink the vial in order to cheat others then makes Juliet and Romeo, this couple to be together in Mantua. However, before Juliet threats him, he does not have a clear goal, Lawrence does not want to comfort her. However, after Juliet threats him, he changes his mind, he thought these two’s love is unseparated, so he changes his tone to ask Juliet accepting his advice on drinking vial. However, the obstacle also exists, the first obstacle is to ask Juliet to give up the weapons, so he thinks about the alchemy and vial. However, after Juliet threw the weapons, the next obstacle for him is to think about the whole plan and explain to Juliet clearly about each step. For me, as performing Friar Lawrence, I should perform this character from relaxed to stressful. I needed to think and rehearsal more on the change of emotion. Like when Friar Lawrence closes the door, when Juliet takes the weapon to threat me and when I think about the vial to help Juliet. Under these circumstances, my emotion can not be the same, I need to express to audience about my emotion change. Also, in order to achieve the motivation, I can also control my speaking speed and add some actions in each scene. Take speaking speed as an example, after I found out I could use vial to help Juliet escaping from the marriage, in my mind I think about the whole plan, but when I speak out, I need to imitate that I just think about the whole plan, speaking out the plan. So at this time, my tone should not be the same with the speaking speed and tone when I close the door and try to comfort Juliet, or even I can add an action about sponging sweat off my forehead, which would become more realistic and more convincing to audience.
During last week and this week, I learned a lot in Ms.Guarino class about the different expression from different actors. All of them repeated one thing, which is to put yourself into the character. You need to think in the same way with the character. All the famous actors have different understanding on how to perform the scenes, but they both agree that you cannot act the character, you need to live as the character on the stage. For me, I did not have much experience about Friar Lawrence, so my method is to watch the threaten part in the movie several times, I’ll learn from them about their understanding on the role of Frair Lawrence, then I will rehearsal with Sam about the threaten part, so during our interaction, she and me can discover some problems and then we will solve them, also we can add more body languages or gestures to show our characters’ personalities clearly.
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