Today my group, Betty, Kat and I played our first draft of the play, the play was chose from the book Krik Krak, the story setting was based on this book but we added some of our interpretation in it. And even though we wanted to perform it in our best but there still some things we needed to improve.
The first thing is about the time taken for this play, it took us 13 minutes to complete, seemed little short for the 15 minutes standard. However I think this thing was easy to solve because in this first draft, our groups’ talking speed seems little faster than the average talking speed.
Then the second question is about our talking volume, from the audience and Ms. Guarino’s advice, Betty and I need to speak louder in order to correspond with Kat’s volume, and Kat’s volume is perfect for audience to listen the lines we spoke out.
Third thing is about our first scene in the beginning, which I performed the dad who is already dad on the bed. But from many feedbacks I read that audience would be confused about the introductory of this play. Which I think is that we can add some lines to show that I am dead, like: “ I will always love you.” “ No dad, please don’t leave us.” “ No dad you can not leave us.” Using these lines would let the audience know that I am nearly died and my daughters are crying near me.
Fourth problem is about the setting of the stage. In our group talking, we decided to divide the stage into three parts, stage left is the reality, stage right is my heaven and the middle of the stage would be the dream where I can meet with Grace and Caroline. And in our first draft play, we did not use this setting efficiently. Where in Scene 2 I first time met with Grace and Caroline in the dream, I just stood in the stage right and did not come into the middle part. And also in the Scene 4 when it is the night before Caroline’s wedding night, I come into the stage left to talk with Caroline not come in the middle part. Also when I pointed out Eric was waiting for Caroline, I need to point stage left because that direction shows the reality. These three wrong actions are my faults, I should think about my movements when I spoke out my lines.
The fifth one is a little confused me. It is about my saying and whispering on the stage. Because sometimes I need to speak louder in order to show that I am communicating with my daughters. However, there’s a problem happened in Scene 1 end, when I came into the dream of Grace and Caroline, and I found a letter from god that helps me to know what happened right now. In this part of the play because I did not meet with Grace and Caroline right now so I am not speaking with them, so at this part I wanted to show that I am whispering to myself, like: “ Oh Grace and Caroline, this must be their dream, so glad I can still see you, can they hear me?” For this one I am not sure should I increase my volume because it seems that I am only asking myself this questions. And the solution for solving this problem, from my perspective, I can change the scene to where I will not find the letter. Instead of reading letter by myself, god will appear and read letter for me. And when I spoke out my whispering line, I would change my position from face to my daughters to face audience, which I want to use this movement to indicate that I am not talking to them, this line was only a self questioned sentence.
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