Connors Acting Journey

My character We had spent the last six weeks researching, auditioning and rehearsing our immersive Globe performance. I had already gone and pushed myself from my role last year which was a slapstick comedy piece with Will where we were part of the vaudeville theatre segment of the tour. This year I wanted to go for a tour guide but the thought of having to answer questions would make me buckle under pressure. So I decided to go for a role that was more in the face of the audience but still had more to say than what I did last year so that I could still feel like I was pushing myself. I went for the insurance broker working with the Mary Ann Cotton's. I knew from the start my character was sort of a narrator who was very factual so I knew I had to learn the facts and make sure I get them right just incase someone potentially notices I made an error.  I knew for the insurance broker he would have important documents and be smartly dressed, so I made sure to print out some insurance ...

 For this assignment it was cut into three tasks. Monologue The first task was to do with monologues where for Uni's we need to have at least 2 classical and 2 contemporary monologues. We started off the lessons with classical monologues or Shakespeare monologues. We only had to learn one and have the other as a spare that we could learn later down the line for Uni auditions. The Shakespeare monologue I had chosen was from Julius Caesar, it's from Act 1 Scene 2 of the show and it is Cassius' monologue to Brutus where he is trying to get him to join him in his plan to kill Caesar. The monologue is written as Cassius is telling a story to Brutus about when him and Caesar where younger and he had to save his life, yet Caesar has then become a god and rules them all whereas Cassius must bow down to him whenever Caesar nods on him. He is telling the story to Brutus to make Caesar look weak, and that anyone like him or Brutus could easily kill this so called "god". The ...

Tuesday 3rd October Today after our Dear Evan Hansen duologues, we got given the opportunity to choose from three stage shows and in that group we would spend the next couple of weeks directing or acting out the first few pages/scenes of the show. I chose to go with The Curious incident of The Dog in The Night-Time. We had a read through in our group and analysed the script a little bit like from what we had learnt the week before. I knew this was going to be a challenge going into this as it the main character has severe autism and it's something you don't want to get wrong incase you offend someone.  Monday 9th October Today was the first real look at it in our group as a whole, Jess wants to direct it and so came up with the idea to hold mini auditions for the roles. So we had a read through again with everyone this time and all gave 2 options for what we would like to audition for then we would do auditions and chemistry reads.  My 2 options out of the characters that are ...

Audition For The Globe experience this year I wanted to push myself and go for a more involved speaking role. My first role idea was to go for the one of the tour guides, as it would have been a very big stretch from what I did previously which was a short comedy piece that I performed with Will in the style of Charlie Chaplin. The tour guides run the tour and take the audience around The Globe answering questions if asked any and always having really good knowledge depending on what is about to happen. At first I was working with Elliott, for the tour guides we had been tasked to go and create a duologue showing that we understand the characters we are going for. My only main problem is that I didn't feel comfortable with answering questions because I wouldn't feel like I would know all the research when i'm supposed to or I would buckle under the pressure incase I  accidentally get something wrong.  So my next choice was the Insurance Broker for Mary Ann Cotton. For the...

Dear Evan Hansen Tuesday 19th September Today we were given a duologue from a scene in Dear Evan Hansen, the scene is an argument between Evan and his mum. I paired up with Millie Trodden, for now we were tasked with just reading through it and going over what we think is happening and how each character is reacting to one another.  We got tasked with going away and digging deep into the scene to find out the story and the context of what is going on. Just from the duologue alone I can see that the mother cares about him a lot and is trying her hardest but Evan always paints her as in the wrong because of how much she works. His mum feels like she is losing him to another family which she calls "these people" insinuating that they're strangers to her to which Evan says "they're not these people." Tensions are at an all time high from what I could pick out but its not constant shouting part of it is just truth that needs to be said in a manner that like stabs...

We are doing another tour at The Globe and this time I've sort of took on a little preparation role for it, trying to find links between each category that we have. For the lead up to it we have been doing a lot of improvisation work around death and mystery, trying to get the creative side of our brains flowing.  Thursday 14th September This was the start of the research, I got put in the group where we had to research about children in the mines. I took it upon myself to try and find some Victorian England books in the LRC that might mention about children in the mines. Sadly, there wasn't much information about children being in the mines. So we resorted to using the internet where we found jobs the children would have to do in the mines and we started coming up with stories and little improv pieces we could out together that we could use for The Globe.  Monday 18th September We got put back into our groups and were tasked with adding more information, I went away to the LR...

For this years Christmas show were doing Peter Pan: The British Musical. This was going to be an added challenge for me as I didn't think I would be coming here to sing on stage. I know we did some singing last year but that was a 15 minute performance, whereas this is a full musical and learning the songs aren't going to be easy and its going to be a lot to learn with lines and songs, an also added challenges is that some of the songs have the characters just speaking through it as well then it breaks back into the song.  Tuesday 12th September For preparation getting ready for the show the 2nd years have the option to come in early to practice the songs with Tom. We started off with voice warm-ups, to help stretch our vocals to reduce the risk of tension, damage and voice loss. We use it for singing to help smooth out our vocal breaks and improve our range.  Tom started off by going through the songs and telling us which characters would sing them songs, also showed us which...