I think my
individual performance was okay. I don’t think my performance met perfection in
terms of general flow and I don’t think it necessarily effectively communicated
the message to the audience. The point of the piece was to convey to the
audience the busy life of mothers in a marriage, and how marriage has a
negative impact on the lives of women, as men are lazy in raising children. I
think mainly my message wasn’t so effectively conveyed because of the audience
perhaps, as it was a younger group of teenagers. But I do think some of the
people in the audience were able to relate from the complaints of their own
mothers. I think I could have slightly expanded the scene by adding my own
dialogues of something more Bengali, so that the scene would have more humor.
I could
have bettered my personal performance by adding extra dialogues to match the
culture a little bit. The initial plan was to introduce the two characters in my
scene (myself and Mushanna) as two married ladies for two different parts of
the world. However, the closest blog I could find was the one we performed. As
we couldn’t find a quick way to change our costumes, which was initially the
way, we were planning on portraying the different cultures. Also, I think that
I could have used more props to make the scene seem more real, and really
assist the audience to be a part of the scene.
My
contributions to the entire performance were partially the opening scene, the
closing scene and my scene itself. The closing scene was a cleverly thought by
me. I thought as a lot of the scenes were showing the negatives of marriage. I
aimed to construct the last scene as the positive outcome of love &
marriage; family. Although I don’t think the closing scene was as crisp as it
could have been, I do think that with more practice it would have made the
perfect closing scene and it would have left the audience I nice scene to smile
at. Some of the effects of the last scene were not properly done. For example,
armin was meant to be the photographer taking the family portraits, and the
pictures were meant to be instantly projected. It however did not work out as
planned. It was meant to be more of a tableau style ending.
I think we
all worked really well in our group, we attempted to help one another for the
most part. Mushanna’s scene was short, but it was down to the point which was
good- it didn’t allow the audience to loose their attention span at any point,
or get bored. Ulughbeck’s scene was a little lengthy but it had a few funny
scenes, and the mere fact that people laughed at the parts was proof that the
audience was tuned into the scene although it was long. Shubham’s scene had a
couple of funny parts, the most memorable being “onegina”, which as expected
teenagers found funny because it was a dirty joke. At this point I realized, we
could have added a bit more of that for humor- however that doesn’t fall under
any artistic approach. Armin’s scene which I partook in, was completely
improvised, I didn’t have prior knowledge about it, I was just told about the
subject of the scene and we practiced it 10 minutes before the actual
performance, thus I don’t think the scene was as developed as it could have
been in terms of props, or other detail.
Armin- Scene decided
last minute- performed without any practice, due to her absence and not so high
commitment level during her presence. Curiosity about what's going on was
satisfactory. Mushanna- actively committed. Fulfilled the job of an
assistant director. Helped solve problems along the way- and contributed great
ideas. She had self-motivation and initiative. Got the tasks done that I
assigned her with. Shubham- Got his work done on time. Contributed ideas
during our performances. Encouraged the rest of us in a positive way, when we
encouraged him to. Got the tasks I assigned him with done for class. Ulughbeck-
Moderately committed. Finished his work, but didn't contribute many ideas to
the group. Worked with us in a positive way, with encouragement.
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