This week we explored the aspects of melodrama and non-realism. Melodrama is a style of performing which is very physical and usually pretty loud. For melodrama, you don’t have to create a very wacky scene but whatever scene you do make must contain characters which really use their physicality in order to portrait their character which is powerful but also very convincing. Non-realism is a style where you take a scene and you start making it very unrealistic as you might have guessed. However what is done is that they make a very unrealistic scene and attempt to convert that into an environment which would normally be very plain. What this means is that in the original it was a mystical land that has magic and other mystical beings. What they then do is transfer that idea into a modern day environment. The last thing that was very important this way was preparation for our play. We finally got word of who our character would be and we are now working on memorising our lines and already working on the physicality of our character for the actual rehearsals.
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