Day With The Arts

When it was the day with the arts, I wasn't as nervous as I expected myself to be, I think it might have been because we practiced our Comedia De'll Arte play various times that I got so comfortable with the scenario and also got used to playing my character's role as being Colombine, who is a character that's very witty, fashionable, she has no bad attributes and she's very flirtatious, all the men admire her. I loved playing her character as she was the only girl and it was easier for me to relate to her, than all my peers who had guy characters. When it was time to perform as the audience were sitting down, I could sense back stage the nervousness and everyone including myself hesitated while getting into costume and putting on masks. Once you where your mask it's as if you transform into a whole new being, someone you normally don't see yourself as being. Overall I think we put on a great show and since it was our own creation we decided to incorporate a lot of humorous climaxes, to make the audience laugh, which was a good feeling. It gives you a sensation knowing that you are playing your character well. There's always room for improvement and I thought our expressions and vocals were excellent according to the characters we played, just maybe the gestures could have been more exaggerated, this aspect was difficult since we don't normally use such big gestures in our daily lives, so to portray it, is strange to us. But as long as we portrayed the stereo typical character we were assigned and that the audience could recognize what type of person you are straight away then that's very good. I even forgot some of my lines at the beginning and to make up time, I improvised. I really enjoyed this theater genre as it was very different, using masks and producing large gestures, there's a lot one can do and be creative with it. All you need is a scenario and an ensemble work to put on a humorous climax in the play. My parents really enjoyed the play, they were smiling the whole way through, as for my costume I tried to be as fashionable as I could more than the other characters. I thought in this unit Max was really committed towards his character of Arlecchino, it really showed a different side to him and that he could be a really comical character if he tries.