Connors Acting Journey

Before the script read through, I had a little skim and read through the script myself cause Kelly sent it early. Just from reading it I  took a liking to the character Tristan because I clicked with him a lot because there were things in the script that really hit home for me and made me see myself in Tristan. The monologue where he opens up about being the only person in his family to go to Uni, I am now in that situation where I am now the first person to go University, I also resonated a lot with the way he spoke to Dana on the soft side like just being there for her because I have had the same connection with my older brother who was/is a selective mute.  Wednesday 10th Januray Today we did a script read through of shout, this was like the other read through's we have done as a group where the first person to stand up can do the scene. I stood up for Tristan and read the library scene where he is screaming, I got a bit nervous at first and Alan jumped in and screamed first whi

Going into Peter Pan knowing it was a musical was something I was excited for but very nervous about as I hadn't done anything to this level before. I have sang on stage before but that was infront of people I knew where it was less nerve-racking. This was for a show so it felt like there was a bit more added pressure on that front for me. I still wanted to give it my all and go for a character I felt like I could portray well which when auditioning was Hook. Through out my journey on this course I have played a few mature characters and stereotypes on different characters. So when Kelly had spoke to me about the role I had been given because of how mature of a character Hook was I was upset at first but took on the character of John very happily with an open mind to play on how psychical I could be with him being more loose and energetic. I also still had a few fair songs to learn on top of that so I could still challenge myself by singing in front of an audience I don't know