Seunghyun Lee / 3rd assignment / How would you prepare for a part in play? / Thursday 11-13
About a week ago, I watched a play "The Third Rate Actor". I was totally moved after watching this. So I called my friend who is a producer of college musical club and asked him how I can prepare a play. My friend told me that there is three steps to follow when preparing a part of a play: practicing alone, with partners, and rehearsal.
In the beginning of preparing a play, I need to practice individually. The first procedure mainly depends on my ability of acting. The most fundamental and important thing is understanding the whole script. This contains not only the memorizing line or words, but also understanding my path and atmosphere of scene. The intonation, voice tone are also other important factors I should practice. What is more, I have to understand how the hero feel.
After I finish my individual works, the second procedure begins. In this part, the most important thing is coorperation, because I am going to work with my partners. When practicing together, we attune each others. In most cases, the director of the play tells actors how to make our performance better when working with partners. I have to balances emotional expressions, voices, actions fit to my co-workers.
When this coorporative practicing is done, the final step remains. It is a rehearsal. There is two kinds of rehearsal. First, we rehearse about weeks before the play. This is the time that I can check the stage to perform. I and my friends also perform almost the whole play in this rehearsal. Lastly we practice breifly right before the show to check our coordination, and finally the play opens.
In short, I have to practice what I have to do, and collaborate with others, and the rehearsals. I believe that I could prepare a part of a play well when following thes steps, regardless of my acting ability.
Well, fist, thank you for information. haha:) I didn't know a thing about preparing for a play. I can get informed through reading your essay. Anyway, I especially like your first sentences of body paragraphs becuase those were quite natural to follow. And also like your various expressions in same meaning (partners, co-workers,...) . There wasn't any sentence that I couldn't understand... But there is one little thing that needs improvement. I think it's better to use 'do rehersal' or 'doing rehersal' rather than just 'rehersal'. It would be more natural, I guess.
ReplyDeleteYour essay fits the editor's checklist pg58. I like how you start your first sentences of the body paragraphs. They restate about the last paragraph, and i like that. Also i like your introduction because it got my attention. I don't understand one part, it is 'understanding my path'. Do you mean 동선? Overall it is good.
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