Brecht evaluation

When we first got the scene from the script of the Caucasian circle, we decided that we would each just take a random character each and just do a complete read through of the whole script. Once we had discussed what we thought the scene was about, we set roles for everyone in the group.

I was given the roles of first woman, guest and old woman. I decided that each voice would have to be different because with Brecht everything is over the top meaning that if I was multi-rolling, it would have to be made obvious to the audience through my voice that it would be a different voice.

I decided to have my plaque taped to my front as the audience only really sees the front of me. My original idea was to cover up with my hand the roles I wasn't playing so the audience could see who I was playing by looking at the plaque. Although, this idea was good, I should of tried it out before the day of the show as when I was playing the person who's name was in the middle, I had to use both hands to cover-up the other roles. This meant I couldn't actually act at all because I was in a really awkward position and I was also reading off my script in this awkward position making it impossible for the audience to understand what my characters was doing. So instead the names of my characters were just wrote down on the plaque leaving the audience to guess the role I was playing.

I'm glad that we tried Brecht out because it is a different style of theatre that I haven't studied before. Although I do like over the top type of theatre sometimes, I don't want to do Brecht again because I didn't actually really like the scene that we did and I felt like the minimal props make the show look cheap and boring. I'm not saying a show needs a bug set for it to be important, I just at least expect some props. Also, I like it when the audience becomes emotionally attached to the characters so if anything does go wrong, the audience feels sorry for them. I also think that a character should wear a proper costume, even if it's scaled down to what it's actually meant to represent. I personally hope that I never have to do Brecht again. I can see why some would like him but I personally think that he goes too far with going the opposite to naturalistic theatre.