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I was wondering if any of you guys here have acted in school or in college at any point. If so you can share your stories here.
I myself played Decius Brutus in the second act of Julius Caeser at high school. Basically it was a part of our high school English project and Julius Caesar by Shakespeare was the play that was a part of our course. Our class consisting of 50 guys were divided into 5 groups. Each group had to put up one act of the play and the acts were decided on by a lottery.
As I have rotten luck whenever such things are concerned, I drew Act #2. Now Act #2 and Act #4 are possibly two of the most boring acts in the play. The best acts are #3 and #5 as Caesar gets killed in Act #3 and Mark Anthony and Octavious Caesar go on war against Brutus and Cassius in Act #5. So basically there is a lot of room to improvise in those acts. Act #2 is the act where the conspiracy to murder Caesar is planned, and it really requires a lot of stellar acting, which is really a hard job for first timers. Also I studied in a boys school and the act featured both the wives of Brutus as well as Caesar, namely Portia and Calphurnia. It's really a tough job to get teenaged boys to play the roles of a woman, as I found out the hard way.
In the end I'd say we gave a solid if a rather unspectacular performance, though my teacher was kind enough to say that she liked the scene where I goaded Caesar to come to the Capitol inspite of being forewarned by his wife. Act #5 was the showstealer though, but it was not without it's blemishes. In a scene Octavious Caesar had to draw a sword on Brutus and Cassius, the dude's sword got stuck in the sheath and he yelled out "FUCK" much to our amusement.
I think that it was a good experience and I did get to learn about an art which I had not appreciated much previously. For example I learned that when you are on stage you have to express more with your body than with your face and other such intricacies of the art.
Please do recount about your own acting experiences in this thread!
I myself played Decius Brutus in the second act of Julius Caeser at high school. Basically it was a part of our high school English project and Julius Caesar by Shakespeare was the play that was a part of our course. Our class consisting of 50 guys were divided into 5 groups. Each group had to put up one act of the play and the acts were decided on by a lottery.
As I have rotten luck whenever such things are concerned, I drew Act #2. Now Act #2 and Act #4 are possibly two of the most boring acts in the play. The best acts are #3 and #5 as Caesar gets killed in Act #3 and Mark Anthony and Octavious Caesar go on war against Brutus and Cassius in Act #5. So basically there is a lot of room to improvise in those acts. Act #2 is the act where the conspiracy to murder Caesar is planned, and it really requires a lot of stellar acting, which is really a hard job for first timers. Also I studied in a boys school and the act featured both the wives of Brutus as well as Caesar, namely Portia and Calphurnia. It's really a tough job to get teenaged boys to play the roles of a woman, as I found out the hard way.
In the end I'd say we gave a solid if a rather unspectacular performance, though my teacher was kind enough to say that she liked the scene where I goaded Caesar to come to the Capitol inspite of being forewarned by his wife. Act #5 was the showstealer though, but it was not without it's blemishes. In a scene Octavious Caesar had to draw a sword on Brutus and Cassius, the dude's sword got stuck in the sheath and he yelled out "FUCK" much to our amusement.
I think that it was a good experience and I did get to learn about an art which I had not appreciated much previously. For example I learned that when you are on stage you have to express more with your body than with your face and other such intricacies of the art.
Please do recount about your own acting experiences in this thread!