Bringing it all together

Comedia was fun, and proved to be very challenging, physically. To actually become the character you wished to portray took more then just rehearsing lines. You actually had to practice the exaggerated ways of the individual. It was fun however, because you could take the character over the top, and it would only add the comedy.

Realism proved to be the most difficult of the three sections. Although physical actions were part of the scene work, most of the characterization relied on the depth by which you knew your character. You really had to “dig deep” and find out who your character was. If you did not know every little aspect of the character, it proved to be a difficult task performing the scene.

Clowning was awesome! It was a combination of physical and character comedy all rolled into one scene . . . except in silence. The most difficult part of this was memorizing the order of you “gigs”. But once you had that down, you were able to take off with the ideas set before you, and