Lauren's 12 Meditation
Last week’s blog was about some of my feelings regarding Shakespeare and adaptations of his work, so now I’d like to talk about the One Acts. Of course I’d like to tell everyone that was involved that they did an amazing job, but I also realized a few things while watching my friends and classmates prepare for the One Acts.Many people think that the hardest part of being in a show is being on stage – at least, I know many people who are not involved in theater think that. I did, before I became involved in theater. They have to memories lines and blocking, give each performance their best effort – it’s trying and exhausting. But I think that many people often overlook the part of the director – cutting plays, blocking plays, staging plays – even simply castings plays can be difficult.
I’ve adapted a full-length play into a One Act once before, my freshman year. It was quite possibly one of the toughest things to put together so that it makes sense and flows together. I’ve also had directors in the past who were not good at this at all, therefore the show wasn’t half as good as it could be.
I think that all the directors did a very good job with their One Acts. I felt like all the shows made a lot of sense and I was drawn in by each of them individually. Each director took their text and adapted it to the actors they cast, the requirements for their class assignment, and other restrictions like the stage, etc.
I, for one, am very impressed with everyone that was involved. Again, good job, you guys!
posted by Anonymous @ 12:40 AM
2 Comments:
Yes, it is really hard to cut the play down. Mary had lots of problems cutting ours down to fit the required time, and we still went over about 10 minutes. Because it is hard for it to make sense after you cut things, or in our case--things we didnt want to cut. There were parts that we loved that we didnt want cut, but we had to for time. I think that plays that get cut in general arent as good as they could be just because you are missing information about the character or the circumstances. But if done the right way, they can still be good.
Yes casting directing a play is very diffcult thing as diffcult as acting.I think most people know directing is diffcult but it just isn't considered as typical a thing to say great directing as great acting in our culture.For me what's funny is that well I ocassionally have stage fright the scariest things in my life have not been performing but rather stagemanaging directing and the big monster playwrighting!
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