Broadway Big Boss😎

“Hey, hey come here!HERE!”

“Oh no no no go that way!!”

“I need a bed! A pink bed with lace!”

“Be angry! Angrier! Shout at me!”

“Oh my god, do not smile! Push me! Push her!”

If you see a crazy girl walking around the black box, yelling weird words and making the sacred auditorium a mess, do not be surprised. I am not trying to destroy the black box. On the contrary, I am on my way to become the best-ever director and performer of the world, although the route in front of me seems too long to be achieved. Well, who knows? Maybe you will see my name on the Broadway advertisements one day, and at that time, you have to pay for my tickets!Casting aside my day dream, directing a success scene is in fact building a house, which needs logical minds, ordered procedures and a creative head as mine. 

To start with, can you guess what is the groundwork of a scene? Gestures? Emotions? Settings? You are totally wrong! The base is the lines for characters! Only if the lines are decided, is the house able to stand firmly, rather than being blew away by a small flow of wind. How to choose the best lines is as important as creating the hardest concrete. My poor experience tells me to be logical, explicit and focused. In order to make the scene reasonable, every dialogue needs to be meaningful. For instance, the respond of Juliet to the insult “tallow face” would never be “thankful that you have”. The challenge of picking dialogues from original script is that I must always be clear-minded to choose the best and most representative sentences. Furthermore, if one word could express the whole meaning of a sentence, why should we need to waste time memorizing ten? Therefore, choosing the most significant and the strongest lines is the best way to increase the quality of the scene. When the lines are ready what should we build next?

Do you enjoy watching two radio communicating with each other? Absolutely not! Audiences want to see real people moving around the stage and using gestures to explain what is going on! Therefore, movements are extremely important since they are bricks to build up the house. Accuracy is highly required in the scene that even very small nuances may lead to tragedies. During the process of practicing our scene, I found it funny that when Ryan was trying to shake me, he stood either too close or too far,  and thus could not “wreak his anger” completely. I could not help laughing and our stage suddenly became a mess. I realize that although we could take a lot of impromptu actions, the basic movements need to be appropriate and certain, or the performs would become awkward and farfetched. 

Spending my whole energy preparing a three-minute scene, I feel that I may not have the gift to become a good director or actress. I am still sticking in the vortex of emotions:When is the correct time to smile? When should I cry or shout? Why is he laughing when insulting me? Trying to pull myself out of the confusing circle, I feel accumulating energies around me. During every piece of thinking, practicing and introspecting, the house gets higher and stronger. There might be some day, when I finish building the foundation—lines, the body—movements and the decoration—emotions, my achievement would become another Broadway. At that time, if you want to watch a show, tell the ticket seller my name, and they will definitely give you discount!