On Thursday 13th December, Cast 2 performed our production of Peter Pan, and now it has been completed, below I will address the pros and cons of the performance, and how I can address the mistakes I made on stage to better myself as an actor.
When looking at certain factors of acting, such as voice, I believe my use of voice for Peter Pan was used well in terms of dialogue, as I projected my lines well so the audience could hear and upheld a strong accent to make my lines clear and consistent throughout most of the performance. However, one thing I must work on is my singing ability as looking back, I felt that when performing my solo verse in Scene eight for the musical number "It's Goin Down", my singing voice was stressed and awkwardly pitched and later received feedback from audience members to work on my singing ability. Knowing this, in the future, I will work on all factors required to sing well, such as solidifying a tone of voice whilst singing and broadening the pitches achievable for me, which henceforth I will link to voice as a whole once the skill of singing is worked more on.
Additionally, when exploring my use of characterisation, I must consider how much depth I gave the role and how I distinguished myself or conformed myself to other Peter Pan's in the past. I will argue that my role as Peter Pan both confirmed and subverted the trope of Peter Pan's characterisation. The tropes of Peter Pan as a character are that he is a boastful, heroic like the boy who refuses to grow up, and I believe that I demonstrated this concept well through my use of voice and movement. A key example I feel was in Scene Four where I argued with Mermaid 1 about Hook as a threat and the phrase "Nonsense! That swashbuckling idiot has nothing on me! I will always outsmart him and his gang of loons!", tied with a strong voice directed to the audience tied with a proud stance with hands on hips and a broad smile only convey the desired theme of pride bordering on arrogance, and so here I have obeyed the conventions of Peter Pan's character here as I felt that it was the best approach to the script, and obeys my promise to the audience through our college's programme wherein the 'About' section I argued Peter Pan is a depressed character who hides his fear of isolation with boastfulness and arrogancy. Antithetically, one thing I feel separated myself from the other Peter Pan's done in the past as I didn't really flirt with the character of Wendy which in movies is rather the opposite. The best example of this is Scene 9 when Wendy and Peter are meant to kiss during their farewell, but this did not occur. The reason this did not occur as I personally felt that unlike other cast members, the relationship between Wendy and Peter isn't as key to his growth as previously portrayed, instead it is his feud with Hook that should've been explored more as when reading the script, I could sense the pure emotion emanating from Peter Pan about his relationship with Hook, the pure seething tension between the two, however with Wendy I could sense little connection between them on Peter Pan's side, and so I felt personally a friendship at the end of the play would've been more appropriate.
