Blog #19: However our celebration didn't last long

Description: 

"A spoonful of trust", according to the One Act Play organizers; or, "6. A spoonful of trust" according to us, is partially over! This Wednesday was the day of the performance and, as usual, we have received both positive and negative comments, as well, as feeling either disappointed or pleased with our own work. This entry will be focusing on the critique received after the performance and I'm gonna analyse in what way we could have ameliorated the play. 

A spoonful of Trust <3

Analysis:

The process of creating and building up the One Act Play was no close to being easy as I thought it would be. This process demanded of a bunch of hours of planning, trying out and practicing; with the purpose of reaching a final product that fulfilled our expectations. In my case, this process was not easy at any stage as once I reached a certain of level of satisfaction with one aspect of my performance, other problems began to arise. For example, when we got the idea of using the duel disk as a prop to help raise the energy in my scene; the other half of it was not taken care of; making it have a low energy and becoming rather repetitive and boring. I'm aware of the fact that the play could have been better, at least my scene could have been more flawless; however the presentations are not over, we still have two more presentations on Tuesday and Wednesday for the Form II and Form I respectively. I consider energy to be a key element in order to make the scene entertaining and understandable; my scene, for instance, demanded high energy and concentration at all times as it does not only rely on dialogue but on actions as well. If we look back at the first drafts of my scene in which there were many actions at the beginning of the scene when Spencer Alexis III was supposedly cleaning his wounds; and to the end product in which the actions were reduced and the main focus was melodrama; we can definitely see an improvement. This process helped me to understand the true essence of this theatrical genre, as I managed to get the idea that body expression and face expressions are much more useful than the dialogue itself. The dialogue can be dull, but as long as the actions that accompany them are exaggerated and grotesque, it will work (el asunto funciona).