Voices of the High School

My scene is from a play called Voices of The High School, my character is a girl named Stacey. She's an awkward teenager who is interested in her friends brother. The setting is in Bruce, her friend's brother's room. He is in a a box when she enters and the whole play is based on the questions of why and how he got into the box. They also go back and forth dropping hints in the middle of conversations as well as making minor physical contact when Stacey enters the box so you can tell the two are somewhat interested in each other.

As I played the scene I noticed the words were short and direct, straight to the point and there was a huge feel of awkwardness as I read my lines. So I decided to put myself I. The shoes of a girl who has a crush on a boy and knows the boy feels the same way. Except as I read through there were parts where she seemed to be flirting a lot and then towards the end she played hard to get. So I tried to balance my performance and play both parts as a cruelty as I could. Although I feel like the last parts in the scene weren't played very well. For example when Stacey said, "mutual, I see why you like this place. There's no worrying about diets and knocknees or anything," I feel this line was a bit confusing to me I didn't know if she was flirting back or just taking note of the fact that he liked her but she just didn't care. So for me this line was a little of. Also, during my performance there were some lines that I kept forgetting maybe because there were many, oh' s and uh Huh's becase at some point I didn't know were to place them in the scenes. And lines started getting mixed up in my head but all in all I think I managed to memorize as much as I could.

Overall I enjoyed acting out this play because it was a little challenging and I like to try new ways of performing. And it's a good thing that the characters were teenagers because I' m a teenager as well so I didn't have to pretend or work extra hard in that department. I also liked the fact that the lines were short it wasn't so hard to memorize but the scene itself was pretty long so it was a little hard to get all my lines. Otherwise, I think I did an ok job,not my best but maybe with more practice I could learn to act out characters much better.