Saturday, April 11, 2015

How will interesting pathways and obstacles be created in the space? Consider the use of different levels and curtain formations in your...

Since I did not witness your production of The
Bagel Club
,  I can’t answer this question for you.  I can however explain
what your teacher meant, and give you some examples that might work as an answer, even
if you didn’t specifically use it in your production.


It
sounds like your teacher is trying to get you to analyze how you set up the stage space
for your performance.  Sometimes the spoken dialogue in a play can be made more
interesting and active, if the actor is moving along a pathway as she speaks here
lines.  She could walk behind an object and then peek out from behind it.  She could
walk from one side of the stage to another interacting with props as she goes.  I think
this is what your teacher means by obstacles.  Ask yourself if any of the actors in your
play interacted with props in this way while performing their dialogue.  This is what
your teacher wants you to describe when answering this
question.


It sounds like you had some sort of scaffold or
platform to use to indicate different levels in the production.  If you used this type
of prop to suggest an actor was on a second story, at the top of a stair case, or on a
balcony, you should talk about it when answering this
question.


Curtain formations were also mentioned in the
question.  Was there a time in your production where an actor had to emerge from behind
a certain curtain or enter from back stage instead of the front?  This is what your
teacher wants you to talk about in your answer.

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