So this is the first blog entry (first blog, too), functioning as my senior project. So in working towards the completion of that project I have to answer the following question:
“How do you expect this experience will call on your talents, and what are the greatest challenges you face?”
John Proctor is a particularly demanding role, both technically, emotionally, and psychologically. First off; memorization of the lines is fairly daunting on its own, but the real challenge in dealing with them is the syntax and grammer. The language reflects how colonial American's spoke. Its particularly formal yet economical in its word usage. Dealing with that level of formality seems to be making difficult to relax into the character and the speech.
Now, "getting into character" is by far the most daunting task ahead of me. I really want to achieve a highly invested and viscerally felt performance. Recently I've been aiming towards a simpler technicality in performance by trying to bring more of myself to my roles, rather than trying to layer on added levels of characterization. I hope to gain an understanding of John Proctor and build a closer relationship to him than I have my previous characters.
I also want to make sure that the performance is honest, with as little artifice as possible. I'm worried that the show as a whole could end up very heavy and too much for an audience to sit through. I don't want to feel the restlessness of an audience dealing with artificial intensity scene after scene.
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