The Cherry Orchard-Foundations
The practical lesson involved Exploring aspects of Melodrama and how is contrasts with naturalistic Drama which is used in the Cherry Orchard.
Melodrama
a
sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events
intended to appeal to the emotions'.
Doing
melodrama gave me an insight into the very
over dramatized world of acting where nothing is left to the imagination
of the audience but rather given to them on a plate.
Archetypal characters were used which meant most plays had a similar context and the characters were moulded for the actors and the plots were very unrealistic which made it not believable.
Melodrama would definitely disagree with Stanislavsky however despite this i have gained knowledge of other techniques of acting and i also now have boundaries of where drama turns from unrealistic to Melodrama
Archetypal characters were used which meant most plays had a similar context and the characters were moulded for the actors and the plots were very unrealistic which made it not believable.
Melodrama would definitely disagree with Stanislavsky however despite this i have gained knowledge of other techniques of acting and i also now have boundaries of where drama turns from unrealistic to Melodrama
Naturalistic Drama
'drama
which replicates real life and shows the realistic version of it.'
This
relates to what we studied as Stanislavsky developed naturalistic acting which
is the technique used in The Cherry Orchard, as he wanted his actors to become
emotionally and psychologically involved with their roles, in order to create a
convincing, realistic performance. When preparing for some naturalistic dramas,
actors often spend lengthy periods of time trying to 'live' the role they are
playing, in order to create a convincing performance on stage.
In
class using the idea of the fourth wall and naturalistic acting we developed
our own small pieces of theatre in groups. To really understand Stanislavsky’s
system we decided upon doing instinctive acting.
Our
idea involved us acting on stage as if we were trying to think of a naturalist
idea to perform to the rest of the class. For this to work we decided not to
rehearse it but to just go up on stage and naturally act how we were acting
before we went on stage. This would make it convincing and trying to plan what
we were exactly going to do on stage would have ruined the affect of
the whole piece.
The
downfall was it would be hard to come to a conclusive ended of our
piece as we didn't practice that but just hoped it would come to a natural end.
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