I’m not sure how. Theatre contains so many different aspects, whether you are talking about the class, as a group, as a family, or about yourself, as an actor, as a person, or on your understanding of theatre, as an actor, director or whatever you experienced.
Therefore, I will divide my evaluation into couple of categories.
What were my goals?
- When I joined theatre arts, I wanted to build my self esteem. I was very shy and couldn’t express myself properly, and it was important for me to overcome this fear and learn how to use my body and my voice to do so.
- I wanted to be able to improvise. This is different than the previous goal, because it is not only about my self esteem, it is also about me as a person- being able to be spontaneous and overcome my stage fright.
- As I came from the area of filming from my previous school, I wanted to be able to understand my actors’ feeling and learn another area of performing arts.
In this Post, I will try to summarize all the skills that I’ve earned during the year, and the finally I’ll try to see if I achieved my goals.
This graph shows the way my self confidence changed during this year. As a group we had a small ‘breakdown’ in the middle of the year, especially because some people didn’t show they’re commitment to this subject. It influenced everyone and especially the atmosphere. Generally, as the atmosphere at the work ‘increased’ (yes, in science terms) so did my self confidence, because I felt that I have someone to rely on.
Physical Theatre – when I just joined theatre I didn’t really know that you can do so much with your body. I thought that any kind of ‘physical’ theatre is immediately considered to be dancing, and I didn’t know that it is such as wide area. During this year I learned first of all ‘miming and movement’. I learned how to express my body without using words or object, which made me feel more comfortable with acting because I am aware of myself and my actions, and second, more confident of my body. Second, I learned in ISTA festival how to connect people through physical theatre, how to make a conversation and communicate. It helps it as well on my daily life within my conversations with people.
Improvising – I remember the day when I came to see all the subjects that are being suggested in LPC and I came to the theatre room. Everyone stood in a circle and people started improvising… that was the moment when I ran out. Than I decided that I need to face my fear, and I joined theatre class. In the first class of improvising I got extremely scared again, but I decided to try. Steve told us not to think, just get into the circle and do whatever we want. Steve and Jeffrey made a scene about fire in a building.. I felt like I want to see fire in the scene, so I just jumped in and I played the fire. It was extremely weird, because it was so random and instinctive.
Performing and Acting – (also includes improvising) – I’ll start with Commedia Dell’ Arte. I’ve learned how to improvise, how to accept the offer that my partner offers me and play with it, but most important, how to feel comfortable on stage. I think it is very important for actors to feel free on stage because only like that you can make the audience believe that you are the character.
Through the Stanislavski’s system unit, and especially the performance, I learned how to get to know your character well enough to understand what he would feel in every circumstance. When I was acting I felt different than Roei, I felt that I have a different life story and different reactions.
Researching Skills – Theatre is one of the subjects where you have to make the most research. Because the learning is individual- each one of us will eventually adopt the acting skills on his own, each one of us has to research alone. I’ve learned how to take notes, and especially how to learn about different style of theatre. That means that I feel more comfortable to look at new methods and new systems, or theatre styles, because I will know how to approach them. That will defiantly help me in the future, in my research investigation, EE and other missions.
Behind the Stage – I’ve learned a lot of the process of making Theatre. I’ve learned about directing, stage lightning, stage directing, characterization, casting and much more. I’ve learned how important it is to design the right atmosphere- as much as the actors will be talented and will give a very good show, the atmosphere and the props used on stage, and way it is designed, will always increased the impression. I became really interested in light, because in our daily life it is such a normal thing that we don’t give attention to, but in theatre and arts in general it changed the whole image and the understanding of the show.
Team Work – maybe the most important part of my experiences in theatre class. First, Steve is more than a teacher- you want to hear him criticizing you, and you feel free to feel free infront of him. Second, the class becomes your family: after all the trust exercises and others we became so aware of each other, that I seriously feel like I can do everything in front of them. I hope it will only improve within the next year.
In conclusion, I did achieve my goals. I acted, I learned about theatre from behind and from the front, I made new friends, I overcame my fears, I’m confident and I’ll keep on doing it. I hope that next year I will learn more about the ‘making part’ of theatre, and will improve my acting skills.
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