A hole that is never full

Description:

This week we finished the puppets and the scenography and did and did the final changes in the scenes on the first act of the school play.

Analysis:

Finishing the play is like trying to fill up a hole that continues to go bigger and bigger. You finish something and there is still something more to do, and when you say ok, it’s only this left something will happen and that whole will continue to get bigger, then for you have still having something to do, it NEVER finishes.

Regarding to production “it’s almost finished” and I can see how a whole process that began months ago it’s coming to an end. Puppets are finished, dressed, masks are ready. The scenography is almost ready, the tubes of the scaffolds are wrapped, the costume is almost complete, the music is there… all of this together makes the play more interesting, it gives vivacity, it looks different…. But if one of this is taken out the effect is not the same. The visual part of this play is the one that I found more interesting due to the colors, the masks, the puppets. In my opinion the audience will be more focused on how it looks like than the actual story, as the visual part is different than usual, interesting for those who don’t know the “world” of masks and puppets. 

How the puppets are being used by know is getting better and this gives live to the puppet, the voice that the actors develop to use this puppets also suggest a personality for each one. Although the puppeteers still take out some of my attention in some puppets instead of giving a powerful presence to the puppet the movements now are much more developed that in the beginning, I think that it’s a matter of the lack of time we have had to explore the puppets, I remember Maria Laura trained years to be a proper puppeteer. 

Regarding to my own performance this week in scene 1 I was really scared, I have been going through difficulties because of the long skirt which I always step on and this even go worst when I had the crinoline. I just feel so uncomfortable because I feel I’m going to fall. There is not much time left so that I can get used to it so I just need to grab my skirt and leave the fear behind, because as I have already experienced in the last rehearsal, if an actor is worried about something it just ends in a rush throwing up lines with any intention. 

For my performance in scene 3 I think it worked better than the times before, I still had sometimes problems with the movements in some parts where I stay still, but the voice did improve. This is like the hole that I was talking at the beginning, it never ends up filling. For now the best I can do is not to forget and have always in mind the advices I have been told so that I don’t take any step back.

Connections:

Finishing the play finally is pretty similar to finish a work, to complete with a dead line as you know there is always something you can improve, is like when you do your power point presentation in class and say “I could have done this”, and this is one of my biggest fears having TOO MUCH to improve.

Reflection:

When I leave a theatre after watching a play anyway there is always something in my mind which I think could improve, so there for I ask to myself, is a play always “incomplete”? Or is it matter of likes and dislikes that someone feels there is something that could be improved?