What is an Actor?

Task title: 'Three Types of Acting'.

Date of task: 15th September, 2011.

Aim of task: Act out 'The Life of Steve Caligar' in three different types of acting: Realistic, narrative, and abstract.

Description of task:

• 'The Life of Steve Caligar'
• We need to make up a story, and we are split into three groups, each with six people, then perform the story in three types of acting: Realistic, narrative, and abstract.
• This is what we designed Steve Caligar's life:
• He was born in New Zealand
• He dropped school and went to China, work as a maintenance worker in a school.
• He fell in love with a girl called Olivia, but she rejected him
• He felt sad and suicide
• I am the abstract group with Undine, Adam, Jason, Nashwa, and Dorte, I act as Steve and Undine act as Olivia. We decided to use the rest of the team as the emotions of Steve, they surrounds the two and at last, dragged Steve on the floor and killed him.

Reflection:

• This is my first time in the Theatre course acting! And also a quite interesting one! I have never really think of doing an abstract play before, I think we did a good job, although our play is a bit short, but I think if we have more time, we can come up with more thing.

Conclusion:

• There are lots of different kinds of acting, and in order to be a good actor, we need to understand them, and know the properties of them.