Evaluation - Charlie and the chocolate factory

 

   Charlie and the chocolate factory

                      Evaluation

 

I played Violet in all four of our shows because sadly Holly couldn’t preform. I have different things to say about each one. For the first show I think it was a good show to start off on, there was quite a few people watching and we all had a lot of adrenaline and high energies.  I didn’t feel anything was particularly wrong with my performance however, I didn’t feel like I stood out or really impressed anybody. My goal for the next show was to have more of a stage presence by being louder so everyone could always hear me because that was an issue for me, actually that was the biggest problem out of all of the shows but thankfully we fixed it for the last show. To improve my performance, I also thought it would be good to have a few more breaks in between my monologue and also make it a bit slower unless it was a part that was meant to be fast, just so I didn’t seem nervous. One way I got my voice to the correct volume was by telling myself that I was only talking to the people sat in the back row, it makes you naturally project more, and it also keeps you looking up towards all of the audience instead of just around the first row. I took my own advice and used it in the rest of the shows and kept reminding myself to be louder. When I preformed with Kadie and Trinity, I think it definitely changed the backstory of the characters, but the characters could still be the same. I only changed a little bit for the two different casts. Trinity and Kadie’s Mrs Beauregard’s were both made with the same intentions to be obsessed with their kids to the point where they want to become them however, I think Kadie was more of a show-off Instagram mom whereas Trinity was more of a loser Facebook mom. So, for Kadie’s character she dolled me up to keep me perfect and for Trinity’s character I brought makeup so I could doll her up to make her less embarrassing because I wanted Violet to think she’s cool. When I started developing Violet, I wanted her to be twelve, however when Veruca became older and when I started creating more of a personality, I thought it would be better if she was thirteen because the metal different between being thirteen and twelve is a lot, I could have her really caring about her appearance and how cool she was more if she was a teenager instead. I wasn’t sure how good me and trinity would work together because we hadn’t rehearsed together since before we created our own characters but because her and Kadie’s mrs B had the same motivations it was really easy to replicate the mother daughter bond that id already been working on. I liked kadie's character, I think we had a lot of chemistry and bounced off each other really well. We created both of out characters together so that they'd match and so we both had a lot to work with and we also wanted to develop our characters enough so that in scenes where we don’t have any dialogue were never stuck on what to do. I was most proud of myself after the Thursday show. This is the show where we all managed to project so that everybody could hear us loud and clear because the show wouldn’t be as good if you couldn’t hear a word were saying. I also felt like we had the most energy on the last night because it was our last chance to show off our hard work and dedication. Just before the interval the fire alarm went off. Its because of the chiropractor, it went off and the smoke detectors went off. Everyone had to go outside and you would’ve thought it would make us all go flat and give up but honestly it made me more exited because we had a chance to talk to the audience and they were saying how they were enjoying it so far. It made me really exited to go back onto the stage and entertain them more. I just had so much energy because we were all exited backstage, then we were sat just behind the curtains on the boat just joking around and we had so much energy for going back on stage. We were all also really excited because Kane came backstage and told us that you could hear everyone, and it was going well. The last show was by far my favourite! I think it was also my favourite because at the end we’d finished Charlie and the chocolate factory and I really felt like I’d accomplished something, I was proud. Playing Violet was so helpful, and I really felt like it made me grow as an actor and also gave me more confidence as a person. Violet is a sassy, big character who is loud and shares her opinion weather it hurts people or not. This really contradicts me as a person, so it was a really interesting character to play which I really had to think about. My character from the beginning of the rehearsal process to the end of the shows is very different. I feel like my character really started to make sense after doing the character development sheet that we did for the witches. I gave her a backstory and explained her behaviours which really got me into the mindset. Something id change going back is just making sure that I’m really loud throughout ALL of the shows because It was the biggest complaint and a problem of mine. Out of the two casts I didn’t have a favourite to preform with. I’d rehearsed more with my original cast (cast 1) and I feel like mine and kadie’s duo made more sense with the matching costume and accents however, I still loved preforming as Violet in cast two because this cast had such a different thing going on that I was excited to work with. For willy Wonka I think both of them ( Jo and Emily) were completely different but both extraordinary, it just showed you how there’s so many different ways to play a character because after all its just words on a piece pf paper with endless opportunities. There’s me and holly too who both created completely different characters out of the same lines. Kadie who played mrs Beauregarde with me said, "when playing mrs Beauregard along side Sienna, i always felt it was easy to bounce off one another and that creativity flowed. i felt the chemistry there between our characters and it made my performance more effortless and natural. i loved playing her mom and if i was to pick one thing i loved about this show is the relationship that was presented between us on stage." Then Tamara Mills who is Veruca in Cast 2 said, " Sienna played a great Violet Beauregarde, she was always playing the part throughout the whole show. she put a lot of effort into her costume and you can tell she worked on her character development a lot. the only problem is that you couldn't always hear her".   Overall this show has gave me so much more confidence in my skills and has got me exited about playing all other types characters. I’m very exited about the next show, whoop!