Today’s lesson was the auditions for ‘DNA’. As a class, we
decided to scrap our devised piece purely because it just wasn’t getting
anywhere – we lost our plot, characters eventually started becoming irrelevant
and our scenes were pointless, boring and most of them had bad or no script so
was pretty much improvised. This, I feel, is a shame because we had such a
great and unique initial idea, but from there it all just fell apart; so we
decided to take on a new play instead: ‘DNA’. I auditioned for ‘Danny’; I
decided to play him in such a way that captured elements of worry,
carelessness/unawareness and comedy, and intertwine them together and different
combinations of the three, throughout this particular scene. By unawareness, I
mean unaware/oblivious to the consequences and the repercussions and the level
of seriousness the current situation is at – which again, I attempted to use
this to bring out the comedy. I also wanted to show that this character is
going through a stream of different emotions and he switches between them
quickly, and do this by bringing out the comedy. For example, the line “How am
I gonna get references?” is very sudden and unexpected, because prior to this
they are talking about the man they have framed potentially going to prison,
then somehow Danny is suddenly reminded of his desired path for dental college.
To show this change and bring the comedy out, I very quickly and suddenly sped
up my pace and increased my dynamics, and turned straight to the floor and turned
my back on the others (literally, not metaphorically) as if I no longer care
about the subject matter at hand, I’m now purely focussed on dental college.
I didn’t receive any feedback for my audition, but I thought
it went quite well. To improve, I could possibly have used the stage space more
and moved around a bit more – I think I was quite stationary and had little
movement. However this may have been effective when taking the dental collage
line into consideration because it shows more of a sudden change in my
physicality as well and my voice, and could have helped bring out the comedy.
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