Our county's good.

Our country's good is a British play written by  Timberlake Wertenbaker in 1988 which is about convicts and royal marines who found themselves required to act in a production which was set in wales around 1789. The character that I am playing in this play is called  duckling  and she so happens to be a young thief and prostitute who gets sentenced to death at only 18. She has a complicated relationship with her lover Harry ,she is a feisty person who loves her man  but he tries to control her most of the time and she doesn't like it so she releases her frustration at him. It is based on a true story of convicts rehearsing a play and it was adapted from a play called the 'play maker ' by Thomas Keneally which is based on a historically fact. Wertenbaker does not draw any themes from the action but is more interested in telling a play and uses a character  called captain Phillip in the novel to express one central theme in the play which is respect for everyone and uses the character Duckling as a theme of sexuality as she likes to go and see the other marines in the camp even though she has a man.  I like how he uses different characters to portray different themes because it gives the play a bit of life in a way and shows that not all them have similar roles.

I have been developing my vocal skills when performing because in our country's good I have a few scenes that i am shouting at harry and I struggle to yell and to be angry when needed to be but I have been practicing to do so and when i performed it, it went better then expected especially reading some of Stanislavski theories because he believes that when you act you should act as natural as possible and that is what i was aiming to do when on I am stage.

For our collaboration with the dancers I did not feel that it went too well for me , in rehearsals many people did not get the simple moves that we had to do correct  and we went over and over it several times and managed to get it right afterwards but on the day we had to perform it I messed up and was so embarrassed about the situation so hopefully that would never need to be done again but in general we all did well.

Over this term I believe my skills have developed gradually each time we have a lesson. At the very start I was not so familiar on how to position my self on stage and was not aware that my voice was not loud enough for the audience to hear but now i know you have to stand in a way that your body is face to the audience in order for them to see you and your voice should be projected to the back of the room. My goals for next term is to earn a distinction because I believe I have all the skills in me to be able to achieve it.