A famous saying has condemned that “marriage is the grave of love”. Many people would nod their heads in a high frequency and show their agreement with this dictum by abundant tears. However, do you know what are worse than experiencing a marriage from vividness to death? Pretending to fall in love deeply with someone and deliberately pushing the love into its tomb would absolutely be one of the most merciless things in the world for me! Now, the door of time machine has already been opened; let’s walk in and retrospect the miserable but fantastic experience again.
Can you see my screwy face which is trying to control the elf who struggles to jump out and spread the catalyst of laughter? I am totally captured by the elf at first and can find no way to throw myself into the mood of “falling in love” . My voice is prosaic; my emotion is flat, and my face expression is awkward. Not even achieve the basic criteria of performance, I am totally lost on how to show the profound love, which seems to be immutable and invulnerable of Juliet. I attempt to smile gently, to speak with excitement and to add more movements such as holding Romeo’s hand or touching his face. That works out to be a lot better, and I can see myself gradually become a little who is drenched in love. I can even express the love from my eyes when raising my hand to touch Romeo’s check, while my heart is cachinnating crazily.
Keep following the time machine, you can find a huge gap between the second and the first scene: the happiness on my face all disappears and the awkward face comes back again. Well, I do want to make a comparison on how does the love between Romeo and Juliet change because of desperation, rather than how does my emotion changes because of my bad acting skill! How to pretend to be desperate? I become lost again. Suddenly, I come up with a scene happened when I was young. My father used to work in another city and hardly came back home because of his busy job. Therefore, every time when he was going to leave, I would hold his hand, twist my shoulders and talk with him like a baby. Maybe I can use these actions to show my desperation and reluctance for Romeo’s banishment. I apply this strategy into my performance, and it really helps me to get over some of the embarrassed face and weird tune.
To tell the truth, the final draft does not come to be as perfect as I expect since the cooperation between me and my partner is not completely harmonized, partly because Romeo is actually performed by a girl. Furthermore, I do not memorize the lines well, and therefore I have to pay attention to those lines all the time. In the future I will try to spend more time on memorizing those dialogues and create a better performance. The best part of our final draft, I believe, is the costume. In the first scene, both of us wear bright color costume, which indicates the vividness of love; in the second scene, I wear a pure white dress , and Romeo is totally in black, implying desperation and death. The color contrast perfectly suggests the changes of mood and love.
In conclusion, this experience is momentous since I have never tried to perform a scene this long(although it is only 7 minutes total). Furthermore, I have to always concentrate on what I want to emphasize rather than just telling a story. The subtle emotions and gesture are two of the hardest bust most important factors in the performance! I really have to do some research and make more improvement on these realms. All in all, I am on my way to become the best actress by all the miserable but fantastic experience!Fighting!
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