Connors Acting Journey

Candidate Declaration - I confirm that the attached portfolio is all my own work and does not include any work completed by anyone other than myself. Full Year Evaluation I still remember from when I first joined and I was quiet and nervous to get myself involved in some of the warm-ups never mind thinking about auditioning for shows. At first I didn't this life was for me due to everyone seeming to fit in easier and comfortable whereas it took me a while since I had never, even done a show before or performed infront of 100s of people. Our first project was ghost light tours for immersive theatre work, I auditioned for the role of the bartender thinking I was ready to already tackle something so difficult, but it wasn't my time because as soon as I had gone over to Kelly for my audition I had to use the script even though I had learnt everything off by heart, I ended up stuttering all my lines, ended up freezing and my hands were also shaking since this was my first real audit

Ned Moffat So I played Ned Moffat in cast one and the most I struggled with in rehearsals was trying to make the character boring. I had been told by Tom, during rehearsals that I should slow down what I say when it comes to Ned and add small pauses to emphasise more on him being boring and uninteresting. During the dress rehearsal on the day of the show it dragged on a lot we ended up going over three hours due to stops and starts as people were forgetting cues and lines. I also missed my end cue which luckily in the show I didn't. The dance was also all over the place as during the dress run there was three pairs of dancers other than Meg and Mr. Brookes and when switching we because of the position we were in, we had to move past other people to get to the next dancer. So after the dress rehearsal all the dancers ran through the ballroom scene so that when the show came it would be fluid.  For the show my first scene is scene 2, I come on and say my paragraphs talking about how

Little Women Rehearsals So for the Little Women show the roles I had been given was Ned for cast 1 and the Father for cast 3 due to the films I had at the same time so Kelly gave me a smaller role. I had got told what scene to learn straight away for Ned as for when they were doing the first rehearsal for that character I was filming so Kelly had told me scene 2 was what I had to learnt which I went in did in my own time so that I could stay up to track with everything happening.  Thursday 11th May After finishing up Weight of the World this was my first day to crack on with Little Women, when I arrived back in the room with Aiden they were filling us in with what was going on, they were blocking out the ballroom dance scene and the dance scene where Laurie meets Jo. I had to watch Will as he was the other Ned. He filled me in that we go around the party and put our names down on girls dance cards making sure that Sallie Gardner is one of them due to the fact that is who Ned marries. W