Tia Scarlett

Initial response: I felt excitement at first when we were told we were doing Macbeth because I had seen Macbeth in movies and I visualised us as a class bringing the words to life, just like the actors in the movies. I had also studied this play before. However, I was also worried that the complex language would sometimes inhibit our performances. To combat this we used the website 'No Fear Shakespeare' which gave us translations from Shakespearean language to modern day language. To begin my research into Shakespeare, I watched a YouTube video on iambic pentameter since it was something Shakespeare frequently used in his plays. Iambic pentameter is a metrical speech rhythm that consists of one unstressed syllable followed by one stressed syllable. Example: Two house holds, both a like in dig ni ty . Shakespeare used speech rhythms to create an atmosphere, for example, the witches in ‘Macbeth’ spoke in trochees (a metrical foot consisting of a stressed syllable...

Konstantin Stanislavski was a Russian actor and theater director, his methods helped actors to be more natural and realistic in their acting to make it more believable.  The Stanislavski method is a set of techniques used by actors to portray emotions on stage by putting themselves in the place of the characters. He developed this method in the early 1900s. These are: 1. Who am I? 2. Where am I? 3. When is it? (Year, season, occasion, time of day) 4. What do I want? (My characters objective) 5. Why do I want it? 6. How will I get it? 7. What do I need to overcome? (Problems or obstacles the character is going to face) I incorporated Stanislavskis method of natural acting into my group performance of the Cherry Orchard. One of the ways I did this was through the use of nuances.  Nuances are the subtle ways we show who our characters are, the little moments that allude to aspects of the character that aren’t shown outright.