Evaluation of improvisation based on ‘The Bald Prima Donna’ – Ionescu

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Evaluation of improvisation based on ‘The Bald Prima Donna’ – Ionescu

We have been looking at a rather strange and confusing play called ‘The Bald Prima Donna’.  We have done a lot of work based on this piece of text. One of the improvisations we performed was based on a part in the play where they are gossiping about Bobby.  Clare, Natalie and I performed this piece while we were in an office gossiping and giggling about other workers.  We made it quite stereotypical as we stopped working as soon as the boss left and started filing our nails and we put our feet on the desk.  We spoke in a really common accent and giggled really loudly to emphasise the gossiping.  We were trying to impress each other by having the best news about somebody else.  

Another improvisation we did was where we were married and did a repeated routine everyday and had ritualised conversations with one another.  Ian and I were a married couple in our 90’s who said the same jokes everyday and carried out the same task’s day in and day out.  We used good body language by walking slowly and with our backs bent, also our voices were croaky.  My partner and I decided to make our performance funny so we did a little dance, the fact that we were so old made it very humorous. This piece was purposeful as it related to the part where Mr and Mrs Martin play a little game where they forget who each other are.  They most probably do this quite a lot and confuse others.

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One part in the play was when Mr and Mrs Martin and Mr and Mrs Smith were together but had nothing to say to each so there were a lot of awkward silences and they also came up with some very silly stories.  One of our performances was related to this where two couples had a lot of awkward silences.  I showed that I was quite bored and trying to pass time by tapping and looking around a lot.  We came up with some silly stories to discuss like somebody putting on a hat.  We all acted enthusiastically about ...

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