Evaluation of Naturalistic Improvisation.

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GCSE Drama: Evaluation of Naturalistic Improvisation

My group consisted of four characters:

  • Me
  • Roxana
  • Vaishali, and
  • David

In our Drama lessons over the past few weeks, we have been working on a style of drama called Naturalism.

Naturalism is a style of drama, which accurately recreates the details of real life on stage. It attempts to make events/situations as realistic as possible, including the characters.

We were made to create and rehearse a naturalistic improvisation and present it to the whole class.

Firstly, we thought of a setting that we could act as realistically as possible. We didn’t think of a plot. I.e. a classroom or a family round the dinner table etc. We then went off and thought about our own individual characters, then shared out ideas with the rest of the group.

During rehearsal, we each thought about our characters status, objective, action and subtext. I based each of these things on specific features of different friends. I.e. one of my friend’s status would be very confident and conveyed to the audience by slouching on a chair but with her head up high. Another friend’s objective would be to get whatever she wanted etc.

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 Status means how much confidence someone has and how much they are thought of in the world. My characters status was quite high (except she wasn’t thought of in the world!!) until the end of our piece. She was very confident in herself and towards other people. She could have been seen as a bully. Her body language however, showed a moody teenager. She had her feet up on a chair that she had moved in front of her, she was moving her head and feet backwards and forwards to the beat of the music from her walkman whilst ...

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