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It's funny how my life has fallen back into the same ol' routine that it was in when I left it on July 7. (I could linger on more and more about Stratford, but at the moment that seems difficult. It was an amazing time, and one that I will relive in my head and heart forever, but it's just not possible to describe the experience to you all.) I am being persistant in trying to get into decent shape- it's a never ending goal I have for myself. I jogged/walked a figure eight around the Irving Nature Park this morning in one hour five minutes. Success! But now I have enormous blisters forming on my feet again, and I need new sneakers because the one I am using are about two years old. Eek.
As well, I am in ulta-Shakespeare mode (still...) and have been searching for possible monologues for auditons at my high school this fall. Since I now understand the Henry VI plays, I've been contemplating a couple of Queen Margaret's speeches. Margaret is such an amazing character- probably equally strong as Lady MacBeth. I admire how her character essentially takes control of her husband (Henry VI) to gain power of the nation. It's great. There is one speech directly before she stabbs Richard, Duke of York, and she brings out a hankerchief stained with the blood of his murdered son, Rutland. She's so great. Margaret also has a short speech directly after her son is killed in front of her where her strength is momentarly broke while she finds herself weeping hysterically over the body of her son, Edward. They are both wonderful...
I'm amazed at how I finally understand how those characters are all related to one another. During one of the classes at Stratford (ok... now I'll be reminiscent) we had a text coach work with us, Susanne Turnbull. Her responsibility at the festival was to research ever single reference and point made in the plays, so that she could explain and help the actors develop their characters correctly. So she knows how all the characters and monarchs are related to one another and gave us about a ten minute speech about the house of Lancaster and the house of York, and how Richard III came to the thrown and so forth. It was amazing how much I understand about it, and how fascinating it all is. Ms Turnbull also got us to take one of the opening speechs from MacBeth and pick it apart, marking the caesura, and the full sentences, then picking out the major points, and what hold more importance and should be emphasised more in the speech. Also she had us take notice to the iambic pentameter, and any feminime endings and trying to see why the line is written that way. It was very interesting to take notice to all these things, and although you don't consciously think about it when you perform, it's all part of the preparation for acting. As well, I was surprised at how much more confident I felt with my own speeches once I had looked at the text with this sort of detail. I love acting... playing a part is like a giant mental jig-saw puzzel that you slowly piece together to understand the character, the pieces of which all must be found in the text of your script.
posted by">Hayley @
11:57 AM
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