- I chose "The Hot-Shot" because I thought that it was a very interesting character and quite unique than the other characters we saw, like the The Hot-Shot isn't exactly the school jock, but more like the player and the braggart that has expensive cars and has this manly superiority.
How is that character described (personality, physicality, etc.)?
- "The Hot-Shot" is a superior stock character, he expresses power because he has all the money and riches and he gets all the girls, he's knows he's good-looking and he's confident in school and out of school. The character leads with his shoulder and chest, mainly the torso area and his gestures and facial expressions also make up who he is.
What body part is his stereotypical feature? How did you attempt to center their energy there?
- The Hot-Shot's stereotypical body part is his torso area, including his shoulders and neck sometimes. I basically had to walk a lot like Magnifico, but be more chill and cool because I have to also show the laid-back confident braggart that the character is. I had to walk with slow steps, jut out my chest a little bit and push back my shoulders, and slouch and stand tall at the same time to give the impression of looking confident.
How did you did choose to interact with the environment/prop? What specific interaction choices did you make?
- I chose to create imaginary characters to interact with and I also chose to wink and point at the audience as some additional interaction so I look confident. I also chose to utilize the space by making it my personal runway and walk into the act with laid-back shoulders, smolder stare and say hi and sleek/flip my hair to imaginary people.
What feedback did you get from your performance?
- My group members told me that it was good so far but I needed to improve and add more to my audience interaction, like flirt or bring someone up and show them my expensive watch. I was also told to improve my facial expressions by incorporating a side smirk or something like that to make me look confident and "hot" or something.
How did you choose to "take out" to the audience in order to "invite them in" to your performance?
- Like I said before, I want to wink, smirk and improvise with them to invite them in to the performance.
What will you change for the next performance?
- I need to add some improvisation and some audience interaction on stage . I think I also need to improve on my general facial expression throughout the whole performance.
2. Choose another character from your group (Classic or Contemps) and evaluate their performance using the same prompts above.
- I chose to evaluate my friend, Nawar's contemporary draft performance. She performed "the lover/s". Her character's personality and physicality was basically being committed to relationship so a first she was all lovey-dovey and skipping across the room, thinking about her special someone. Then she transitioned into moving away and ignoring other people who try to talk to her because she was so invested in her relationship. I think that her character's main physical point was in the movements, like how she was skipping around and moving around the space. Her stereotypical feature might've been her and because she kept them close to her self and she shooed people away like that and also skipped around like that. She pantomimed and used her gestures to create imaginary characters that she used to shoo away to show her commitment. For next time, I think she needs to take out to the audience and she needs to make some interaction with the audience, like incorporate a gesture of expression directed to the audience to improve her initial performance.
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