With all members of my group present in today's lesson for our group musical showcase performance, the focus of today's lesson was deciding our group performance, and the extract from said musical. We decided as a group to ignore all our previous group ideas and go for a new idea, and we decided on Shrek: The Musical as our chosen play, where I will play the role of Shrek. The reasons we chose this play are listed below:
- The play was easy to pull out scenes from regarding how the musical follows primarily 3 main characters (Shrek, Fiona and Donkey) and there are 3 members in our group. This broadens our options of extracts to perform and makes the issue of being able to perform giant musical numbers that involve loads of backup dancers/singers, which others will face, moot.
- The plays 3 primary characters each had distinguishable characteristic traits that work with each of our individual strengths as actors (For example, the character of Shrek is one who most people recognise as someone who has been prejudiced against by others his whole life and as a result has put on a tough farce to hide this pain, which is a similar idea I have explored in the development of Peter Pan and so allows previous skills to be transferable to said role)
- Shrek: The Musical is a relatively easy musical to uncover information about, with performance videos on the internet, alongside movie adaptations of Shrek to use as research around the role.
Having decided the group performance, we then watched various clips of a professional production of Shrek: The Musical and have agreed to first explore the scene where Shrek rescues Fiona and the trio escape the dragon's castle and hike to Lord Farquaad's castle. Exploration and experimentation of this scene and other scenes will commence in future rehearsals.
Further details regarding my character will be found on a separate document.
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