This week in class we have been working on scene performance. I will be performing two different scenes with two different people. The scene work challenges me to be serious and focused so that I can portray the heaviness in each scene. It is difficult at most times, but these are the challenges that push me as an actress.
My first scene is with Maddy and it is a conversation between a freshman and a senior. I play the senior and she is confronting the freshman after she had gone out with a senior boy with a reputation of a womanizer. The freshman is aware of his reputation, but thinks that she’s the one that the boy truly loves. I believe my character is an ex best friend of the boy, Bobby. She might’ve had a slight crush on him, but it was never going anywhere and she knew that. She had been up a few weeks ago with another classmate of the freshman’s who had just had her virginity ripped from her by Bobby. Bobby of course didn’t care about the pain and emotion he had left on the girl and left her for another girl, but this girl grew depressed. My character was up all night with this girl who I believe is a teammate or someone who lives in the dorm with her, if this were to take place at a boarding school. This girl was crying and debating jumping out a window to end her misery. The senior girl wouldn’t allow this though and comforted her through it. The result of confronting this new freshman girl was that she had finally realized that Bobby didn’t even see a winner out of hooking up with all these freshmen. So she went to go confront Bobby and also warn the other girl he happened to be with.
My other scene is with Sammy Weed, aka Weed Strong. It is about a boy and a girl named Bo and Patti. My character is Bo and Sam’s is Patti. They both had just suffered a tragic loss. Bo’s sister and Patti’s brother had died in a car from a carbon monoxide leak. Bo was able to get back to school even though he obviously is still grieving the loss and is in pain wishing he could’ve prevented it. Patti hasn’t been able to eat or even leave prison of her room due to guilt. There was nothing either of them could have done, but they still believe there was. So Bo came over to Patti’s house to check on her because she hadn’t been to school all week and he thought he’d see her there. They have a long conversation and Patti first wouldn’t let Bo in, but after some talking she finally let him sit down and poured her heart out to him. Bo was more a shoulder character in the sense of that he was there to give a shoulder to Pattie since she was obviously showing her pain a lot more than Bo was. These two scenes have very heavy topics and I’m excited to get to perform these in class.
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