At first it was just a sporadic
suggestion between two mates. “Why don’t we do speech and drama? It’ll be a
laugh.” However this quickly turned into a reality and within 10 days George
Johnson and I sat our grade 7 exam. Personally as an English A level student, I
was already familiar with the works of Shakespeare, but only through the
analysis of his written work. However speech and drama offered me the
opportunity to appreciate his work in performance. This heightened my
understanding of the text, as I was taught how to truly capture the emotion he
wished to convey through his words.
I believe the learning
process augmented our confidence as we had to perform our duologues for an
examiner, having had no prior acting experience.. In particular, becoming accustomed
to improvisation truly forced us to go out of our own comfort zones.
Finally, although the process
demanded much of us, it prevailed to be an exhilarating experience. It
permitted us to truly appreciate the requirements of tackling an acting role,
something I knew very little about beforehand.
But enough about us…
Rosalind Johnson and Louise
Merrifield are fantastic teachers (at least that’s what they told me to include
in this). Under their guidance we quickly got to grips with the requirements of
our duologues and the essential performing techniques required to really bring the
pieces alive.
But if that doesn’t concoct
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