bread

I also just wanted to let you guys know that if you are ever in the mood for bread... the prop bread that I bought is delicious and was only 98 cents. I recommend it.

When I was performing this piece on Tuesday, I felt as though there was a lot that I personally needed to work on. One specific piece is bringing the other characters to life in my head. I could tell that since I did not truly believe them to be alive, nobody else did. I have worked on this some already, and I plan on working on it some more. I have began to imagine people standing in these places. This seems to help bring out truer reactions in the piece as well. Then there was the fact that I needed to separate the each of the beats more. A couple of people mentioned how the pieces meshed together, and it was hard to determine where one ended and another began. I think the best way for me to approach this is to slow down certain aspects of the piece and make my motions more distinct. The final part I have looked at is the true emotions that are supposed to be evoked when put into this situation to create more of the character. This has been difficult, but I believe that I am doing better than I was on Tuesday.

A Work in Progress

With my performance Tuesday, the two main thing I feel like I need to work on are 1. Taking a moment at each beat, to allow time for the joke to settle. This will give the audience time to react and hopefully laugh. 2. Opening up myself to the audience a little more, as Spencer suggested. I feel as though I was keeping my gigs to myself a little too much. I think a simple solution to this would be not hunching over. I need to keep my shoulders back, and have a little more movement from my hips. I think if I were to focus on these two small aspects, my performance, It will be significantly funnier.

Self Clown Critique

I am excited about my piece for the clown bit. I feel that i am close but still need a bit of polishing. Two specific things that i am going to be concentrating on for Thursday are giving my beats a moment after they happen and making myself look as if I am working harder. The moment after my beats allows for the joke to settle in for my audience. This works specifically well in between such steps as the three matches as well as finding my pockets. Making it look as if i am working harder is simply funnier and easier to see when i do things such as pick up trash or sweep the floor. I need to pull the trash all the way up to my body and movve the broom in an exagerated manner. Accomplishing this without looking contrived will be difficult but it is a challenge i think i can tackle. I want my mvents bigger but i don't want to distract from the rest of the piece.

hey, I was just wondering how this section was going for everybody. How different do you find it from the other pieces that we have done? Have you had any troubles?

Funny To-Do List

Enter to clean up stage

Take a break to smoke

Knock cigarette to ground
-pick up cig and drop the others about 5 times
-drop broom
-take one cig
-throw down cigs and sweep others aside

Search for match box
-find it and open upside down
-reach down to pick up matches and get broom handle stuck in sweater
-break first match
-knock out match box with second match

Go for box and kick it away

Stick cigarette in ear

Stomp on box and pick it up
-light match
-search for cig and eventually find it in my ear
-burn my hand on match

Broom head comes off trying to sweep it all away
-pick up broom head and drop hat
-pick up hat and drop broom head

Try to put hat on and put it on broom handle
-search for it and eventually find it
-chase hat

Hat trick

Broom stick down throat

Attempt to reattach broom head
-miss twice
-examine it and spin it on

Sweep cigs and matches offstage

Go back and pick up pieces of paper
-drop pieces around four times

Wave and walk off stage

jail break

rain piece
-umbrella away
-pull back out
-puddle piece
-fall

jail piece
-trip
-reveal bread
-stall
-attempt song
-hint at tools in bread with hand motions
-put rock in place
-break window
-reveal tools
-pretend to leave
-take bread to the cell
-tools fall out of bread
-say goodbye