Feedback's reflection

   In the play, I am acting as Tom. My part was the fight between me and Amanda, and the ending monologue. From others' feedback, I find out that I need to work on my movements, emotions, and loudness of my voice. 

   At the fight between Amanda, I do tried to make my voice louder, but I forget to put emotions in it. The sentences sound dull and cannot make audience feel the emotions. At the beginning of the fight, Tom should feel confused about Jim, like where did he go? Later on, he should feel a bit of angry and impatient, since Amanda, his mother, keeps blaming him because Jim already had a girlfriend/wife. At the last of the fight, Tom should feel furious and he has been wronged, because when he thinks he is doing all the things for his family, his mom thinks the only pastime he had was a selfish pleasure. I will try to put those emotions in Tom's sentences and try to make them to be felt by the words.

   Then, talk about the movements. The movements in the fight is pretty good, but the problem is the movements in the ending monologue. In the ending monologue, I suppose to walk again and again on the bridge; but when I was doing it in the play, I found out that it was just not necessary. Also, when I was trying to figure out how to make my next steps, I already forgot my words. It really distracts me. Probably next time I will just standing on the bridge and talk to the audience slowly.

   The last one is the loudness of my voice. My voice is pretty loud in the fight between Amanda, but at the monologue, audience can barely hear me. I used to think that Tom should speak really quiet and soft so that audience can feel the emotion of him. After the play, I found out that I am toooooo quiet. I should be a bit of louder so that the audience at least can hear my voice.

   Before the performance, one of the techniques I used was the imagination technique. I imagined in that situation, how did Tom feel when he is arguing with his mom. And I kind of knowing that he got angry because he was misunderstood. His mom think he did not know anything, and the only thing he would do was going to the movies. I also imagined about the movements, like how could I make Tom looks real, like a real person in daily life; that's why I tried to drink a lemonade before I am talking to Amanda.