For this performance project, Krk Krak. I choose to be the dad in Caroline’s wedding. Who he is the father of Grace and Caroline, but he already died in the story Krik Krak, then I had an idea about showing the story between the died father and two daughters, which I hope to see the growing of my daughters and also show the adaption of dad from hopelessness to happiness.
In my acting, I like the most part is I improve my speaking speed and volume. In the before, the practice trial, I also speak my lines in lower voice and audience may not hear my speaking and also I thought my speaking speed is a little bit fast because I wanted to show my worries toward my daughters. But this time, I improved it better. When I went into heaven, my speaking speed is fast and my voice is very loudly, I wanted to use the loud voice and fast speaking speed to show that I feel worried and I stayed in an unfamiliar situation. However, in the end, when I last time went into Caroline’s dream and talked with her about her marriage, I spoke very slowly and the voice is not too loud because of two reasons, first, after I died to Caroline’s wedding, there are ten years passed, which means dad is already old enough and did not have much time left. Also, this time, as Caroline’s father, I was not worried because my oldest daughter, Grace is already an American and my younger daughter now will be married and she found her happiness, as a father, there’s nothing I need to worry about, which I use a softer voice and slower speaking speed to make the audience feel my emotion change on the stage. Also in the stage, we divided the stage into three parts, real world, dream. Heaven. Heaven is in stage right and after I died I always stood in the stage right to show my situation. And for my acting, I am satisfied on the speaking part, when I speak some lines, I will use some actions or gestures to emphasize my lines, which in this part I like the most.
Moreover, because dad is a died person in the original text in Krik Krak, so I could not find any direct information to help to depict dad. However, from Grace and Caroline’s conversation, I could get some information about dad personality and his contribution to the family, which I used these information to help me build the character of dad. In my acting, there are two places where I highlighted, the first one is when I first went into heaven and second time is when I talked with Caroline about her marriage. These two things are most important, but also there is one thing I wanted to illuminate, in the scene two where Grace and Caroline in dream, they found out me and they wanted to hug me but God said you can not touch the person who you are familiar with. So I just said :” No you cannot touch me or come too close!” However, in the last scene, last part when I said :” I will always love, remember stay safely my love. “ Then I hug with Caroline, even though in this time I know if I hug with my daughter I will disappear immediately, but I still hugged her because this time is my last time and my daughter will marry with a good person, there’s no reason for me to not be happy and proud to my daughter. So in the end I hugged her and then the lights shut down which means the dream broke, and Caroline and Grace’s father, finally disappear from their life. But I think I emphasize this hug as the greatness of father and also the struggle to his fate.
The things I believed I need to improve is the interaction with light, because I thought I needed to follow with the light to speak my lines, and in this part I think I handled it badly, I think if there’s more practice before the final draft, i will done it good. Moreover, I think I need to interact better with that walking stick, the original reason I wanted to use it because it as a support for the dad, it is a symbol of dad that can support dad to face life positively and also accompanied with him. But sometime I think I needed to show this symbol clearly, but I just have a rough idea in my mind, which I want to show that the walking stick is supporting myself, but when in the last wedding ceremony, I gave up that stick because I won’t be worried about anything, I had no regret in the world, my daughters found their happiness and it is time for dad to leave.
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