Thursday, November 20, 2014
Sunday, November 16, 2014
The Earth Goes Around the Sun: Galileo Review
Over the weekend, I was in the fall play, Galileo, which I had worked on with my amazing cast and crew since the start of school as my after-school activity. We performed in three different shows, one on Thursday, one on Friday, and the final show on Saturday. I really loved working on the play and think we did a great job acting in it.
Galileo is a play about the scientist, Galileo Galilei (Charlotte), from the 1500s, who worked to prove that the Earth goes around the sun, despite very powerful people and organizations, like the Church and the rich families of Italy, being very against his research. Another important character was Andrea (Wiebke), Galileo's student and the son of his housekeeper who helped him prove the Earth goes around the sun and share his research with the world in the end. Virginia (Sam) also was important character and was Galileo's daughter and caretaker when he was under house arrest at the end of his life. The Cardinal Inquisitor (Zola) was another important character who makes the Pope (David) allow him to force Galileo to recant his teachings to avoid being tortured. Ludovico (Luke) was another bad guy in the play. He was Virginia's rich fiancée who breaks up with her after he fears that his peasants will revolt if he marries Galileo's daughter, because Galileo believes the Earth goes around the sun.
The play starts out with Galileo believing the theory the Earth and Ludovico comes to him with the brand-new telescope from Holland and asks to be tutored. Galileo then sells the telescope as his own to a university and uses it too looks at the sky seeing the moons of Jupiter moving around Jupiter, supporting his theory. He moves to Rome and publishes his theory. His theory is disliked by the Church, making him be eventually put under house arrest, and the rich people, making Ludovico break up with Virginia. After the Carinal Inquisitor shows Galileo the instruments they would use to torture him with, he recants his teachings, upsetting his assistants, Andrea, Federozoni, and the Little Monk. After writing his book in secret while under house arrest years after recanting, Galileo is visited by Andrea and he gives him the finished books with his research for him to publish.
I loved getting to act in the play. I really liked my characters, Matti, the iron founder, Fat Prelate, a child and Cardinal Bellermin. They each had something different good about them. Matti was a good guy and supporter of Galileo. The Fat Prelate let me wear a fat suit and make the audience laugh. The child let me do a slightly comical singing and dancing in the show. Cardinal Bellermin let me be a sinister person and use an interesting prop, (which resulted in mishaps) a whine glass with grape juice in it. I also liked the amazing cast and crew I got to work with. It also gave me an acting experience different from what I get during acting class.
Acting in the play and in class were very different experiences. I got to perform in front of a bigger audience in the play than the four or five people in class. I also got to work on one project longer than in class. The play also involved more people, props, sets, and crew that we can't really work with in acting class. Working on a play is very different compares to my work in the play. The material was a little more complex than what we work with in class, which had it pros and cons. Despite the differences between class and the play, I like them both equally.
I had a great time working on Galileo, our school's fall play. I really liked doing it and it was my forth play at school. The next play is The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which Mrs. Guarino is directing and I'm auditioning for. I'm really exited.
Bye see you later when I write my next blog post
Galileo is a play about the scientist, Galileo Galilei (Charlotte), from the 1500s, who worked to prove that the Earth goes around the sun, despite very powerful people and organizations, like the Church and the rich families of Italy, being very against his research. Another important character was Andrea (Wiebke), Galileo's student and the son of his housekeeper who helped him prove the Earth goes around the sun and share his research with the world in the end. Virginia (Sam) also was important character and was Galileo's daughter and caretaker when he was under house arrest at the end of his life. The Cardinal Inquisitor (Zola) was another important character who makes the Pope (David) allow him to force Galileo to recant his teachings to avoid being tortured. Ludovico (Luke) was another bad guy in the play. He was Virginia's rich fiancée who breaks up with her after he fears that his peasants will revolt if he marries Galileo's daughter, because Galileo believes the Earth goes around the sun.
The play starts out with Galileo believing the theory the Earth and Ludovico comes to him with the brand-new telescope from Holland and asks to be tutored. Galileo then sells the telescope as his own to a university and uses it too looks at the sky seeing the moons of Jupiter moving around Jupiter, supporting his theory. He moves to Rome and publishes his theory. His theory is disliked by the Church, making him be eventually put under house arrest, and the rich people, making Ludovico break up with Virginia. After the Carinal Inquisitor shows Galileo the instruments they would use to torture him with, he recants his teachings, upsetting his assistants, Andrea, Federozoni, and the Little Monk. After writing his book in secret while under house arrest years after recanting, Galileo is visited by Andrea and he gives him the finished books with his research for him to publish.
I loved getting to act in the play. I really liked my characters, Matti, the iron founder, Fat Prelate, a child and Cardinal Bellermin. They each had something different good about them. Matti was a good guy and supporter of Galileo. The Fat Prelate let me wear a fat suit and make the audience laugh. The child let me do a slightly comical singing and dancing in the show. Cardinal Bellermin let me be a sinister person and use an interesting prop, (which resulted in mishaps) a whine glass with grape juice in it. I also liked the amazing cast and crew I got to work with. It also gave me an acting experience different from what I get during acting class.
Acting in the play and in class were very different experiences. I got to perform in front of a bigger audience in the play than the four or five people in class. I also got to work on one project longer than in class. The play also involved more people, props, sets, and crew that we can't really work with in acting class. Working on a play is very different compares to my work in the play. The material was a little more complex than what we work with in class, which had it pros and cons. Despite the differences between class and the play, I like them both equally.
I had a great time working on Galileo, our school's fall play. I really liked doing it and it was my forth play at school. The next play is The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, which Mrs. Guarino is directing and I'm auditioning for. I'm really exited.
Bye see you later when I write my next blog post
Friday, November 14, 2014
Saturday, November 8, 2014
Reflecting on Scene Work-
Over
the past few weeks in acting class, we have been working on five different
scenes, with each person playing two different characters, which I talked about
in my last post. It’s been a lot of fun and needed a lot of hard work, but it
also taught me a lot of different things.
I
learned that in some scenes where there is not a lot of text in it, like in the
scenes that we used. There was not a lot of stage directions written down in
it, so Ms. Guarino, Lexi, Lindsay, Sam, Jehmima, and I all to have input into
what the stage directions were in every scene. The sets were another thing that
were very flexible in the scripts, so we got to make almost all the decisions, except
my scene when I play Stacy which needs a box for Bruce and Stacy to sit in
during the scene, but we also got to be creative about what we used as a box.
We used a table that was turned on its side that we stand in it during the
scene. Some scenes having a limited amount of information in their scripts let
people have a lot more freedom than scripts with a lot of information in it was
something I learned about when I worked on scenes in class.
While
I worked on the scenes in class, I learned many different things about myself
as an actor and about specific aspects of acting. I learned it is hard for me
to learn my lines from my scripts if the script is over a few pages and has
back and forth with my character, as in my scene as Stacy. It also showed me
that I liked and was good at creating backstories and motives for my lines. I
learned that it was easier to have good body language in scenes with dialogue, compared
to my work in the silent movie, because the scenes with dialogue are less reliant
on body language in the storyline when comparing it to the silent movie without
any words. Another very important part of scenes with dialogue that was not part
of our silent movie work that was a part of our scenes with dialogue that I got
to learn about during this project was delivery. It was very important and fun
to play with in the scene, because it can change the meaning of both the lines
in the scene and the scene as a whole. I
learned a lot of different things about specific parts of acting and myself as
an actor while doing scene work.
When
I worked with my class on the scenes, I got to learn a lot about working
together with my classmates. I really enjoyed working with my friends and we
all had also of fun. I learned that my difficulties about learning my lines can
be decreased when I practice with other people. I also learned different strategies
for learning lines, such as just repeatedly reading it off the script with my
scene partner and doing it without the script with my scene partner while
someone else has our script and corrects our mistakes. I learned a lot of different
things from working with fellow actors on our scene work.
I
learned a lot of different things form my work on the scenes we did. I really
enjoyed it. Well. I’ll write my next blog post on our next project so bye for
now.
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