Task 2: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Performance: Shakespeare Duologue Evaluation and Feedback
A Midsummer Night’s Dream Performance Evaluation PART ONE 1. What was your initial response to the practitioner Shakespeare? How has this developed/changed during the course of rehearsals and performance? I overall had a very positive initial response to the practitioner Shakespeare. I personally really like the way he uses language in his plays. The hidden meanings of his plays are metaphorically hidden in his scripts and I really enjoy that as it makes audiences think deeper about what he’s writing about in his plays. I find the language in Shakespeare’s plays rather mesmerising but I knew it would be tricky to learn. As the language is different to modern day language, I knew learning the scripts would be complicated as it is a completely different way of speaking. This is something I was a bit apprehensive about. Shakespeare writes tragedies and comedies and I was hoping that we would be ding one of his comedy plays as they are something that fit my acting style more. I...