When you feel awkward on stage it tells you that you need to do something more to know your objectives. To be comfortable is to be knowledgable. To know what your character feels in that moment and have enough awareness about your relationships with the others on stage allows you to make bolder decisions that are backed up.
You should be able to physicalize you objective on stage. If you can't then find a new objective which equals the same but can be acted out with your whole body. Their is no point having an objective which can't be easily viewed by an audience, us as actors need to express what is in our characters heads on stage, the audience cant read our mind.
Bring the text to the front of your mouth otherwise the audience won't hear you. Using your whole mouth, tongue and teeth to say your lines. Shakespeare is already extremely hard for us to get our mouths around and also hard for audiences to understand if we don't pronounce each word correctly and with meaning.
Keeping the tention throughout even through the transitions is key. Making each movement not slopping but clean cut and giving yourself an objective even when moving the blocks, keeps the flow I piece going.
No comments:
Post a Comment