Queen Lear Memory Video

Evaluation

Evaluation 

I believe that our performance went well, better than I thought honestly we put a lot of hard work and thought into getting the show to where it was the day of the performance. Especially because her dress run went pretty bad it really pushed us to do better in the performance. 

On show day one of the hard things we came across was that we changed the opening number slightly last minute, but we managed to pull through it and make it look like we've been rehearsing that opening since the very beginning. Personally I was a bit shocked that we changed something but it looked and worked so much better. In the original when we were growing into tree's we would clump together than die again but in the new one we would all grow separately than freeze and grow into our character when young Cordelia comes through us. I really believed that this was much more effective than our original idea because it was a bit weird us dying and coming back alive three times, and it was much more significant because we wouldn't away from the emotion we were feeling when growing. 

One thing that really put most of us off was our dress rehearsal it wasn't as good as we thought and it put most of us in a bad mood. Personally i don't think i was loud enough in the dress run, and i didn't do the best acting. I believe that part of the problem was that, it was our first time doing the new opening so we weren't really familiar with it causing us to be a bit nervous. In the first show i think our disappointment really came through because honestly we were all so down with how it went it really effected our performance and how we felt about it.

In both performance i do believe that i took on my feedback from the dress rehearsal: to speak louder and have more energy. when performing i added those qualities into my acting so i spoke louder than i normally would, and it worked out better because after the show my friends who came to watch said that they heard everything i said, which made me feel much better. Also before performance i thought that i would be fully aware of the audience but i wasn't i was totally consumed by the world of the play that i even forget they were there. 

Another thing i believe went well was in the first show in the scene where me and Katie give a necklace to rob it took long to take it off Katie's neck and put it on Robs so he quickly took it out her hand. So in the second show we used initiative and took of the necklace before going into the scene and just gave it to him instead of placing it round his neck. 

In addition to that the set and costume really helped us develop our characters and really get engrossed into the world of the play and they played a big part in the performance. For example there was a fridge on stage which helped us convey which characters had a lot of power in that scene while also using it as intimidation. Furthermore my costume just made me feel so cool and powerful i felt like no one could threaten or intimidate me. 

One thing i think i could improve on was my tone and pitch while i was speaking my lines, because my voice naturally is quite soft and airy whereas my character Goneril is very strong and rooted I don't think i managed to get her power across in my voice, or at least i didn't think i did. So to try and make up for that i tried to make my stance and physicality much more stronger and direct 

Overall i believe that the performance went good not amazing, there was a lot of things we could of improved on as a company but i did enjoy myself and i loved surrounding myself with the cast we all just connected and it felt like a little family. I think that was one of the best things about this term, how close we all got and the comfort we all felt around each-other

King Lear: The oldest daughter Goneril

Kate Fleetwood as Goneril

Kate Fleetwood as Goneril

Kate Fleetwood played Goneril at the Nation Theatre in 2014, i believe that she was an amazing actor and took on the role as Goneril so beautifully that even though she was evil you still loved her. 

Her version of Goneril was very cold and icy, she displayed a very powerful and manipulative character. 

When playing Goneril, you can really see the desperation in her eyes how much she wants her mothers title.  

I really took inspiration from how she played Goneril because i wanted to have that fierce and powerful look in my eyes but also show the audience that Goneril is just a young girl who was never loved by her mother, all she ever wanted was her mothers acceptance and love, ut she never got it. 

What poeple said about her Performance: 

"The Wicked sisters are terrific too, with Kate Fleetwood a tense and ruthless Goneril"
- Charles Spencer 
The telegraph


"Kate Fleetwood's quietly venomous Goneril is perfectly contrasted with Anna Maxwell Martin's extrovert and hysterically cruel Regan"
- Michael Bellington 
The Guardian 


"As Lear's eldest daughter Goneril, Kate Fleetwood is icily seere"
- Henry Hitchings 
London Evening Standard 

Annotated Script

Choices we made in our version of Queen Lear

Choices we made in our version of Queen Lear 

• We chose not to do traditional Shakespearean voices with RP accents because we want to link it to the present and relate it to our generation.
• We added Everychild we chose to add her because i believe that she represents everyone in the play and everyone in the show, she shows how we are changing the world and the planet either for the better or the worse.
• We also based it on politics, so we chose global warming and how slowly we are damaging and destroying our planet and our lives in the process. 

Feedback I received

Feedback I received in rehearsals

• Be Louder 
• Have a stronger voice 
• My feet are very light i need to be rooted 
• Morph into my characters physicality 
• when i'm not on stage make sure i'm still alive and not frozen 
• When Lear is talking to me, be strong 
• don't be afraid to face and intimidate Lear