Describe one acting performance which you thought was either successful or unsuccessful, your answer may refer to performance skills.

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  1. Describe one acting performance which you thought was either successful or unsuccessful, your answer may refer to performance skills.
  2. Explain why you thought it was successful or unsuccessful.

The bank job

Spike theatre

North Kestevn School

Monday 30th of May

  1. In many ways this play was successful due to good acting skill the company spike theatre obviously thought very deeply about how to show a lot of different characters and props with out having a lot of props or actors.

This was shown very well throughout the play, which helped maintain interest from all members of the audience.

Some of the major acting skills they used where:

  • The actors said in character throughout the play even when they had changed to a different character.
  • All the actors had good clear voices which they where able to project throughout the whole hall, they kept this up throughout the whole play.
  • There where very good use of movement throughout the whole play they managed to use up all of the available space they had to work with (they where very conscious of space.).
  • Facial expressions and body language was used to explain a lot of the story throughout the play they where also quite humorous and serious at certain times throughout the play.
  • There physical and natural skill where also very good these included there miming and gestures with there mimes it seemed the objects/people where actually there and you started to picture what the object/person would look like from the actors gestures and other expressions.
  • The actors had very good vocal skills they managed to create sound effects with there voices and had volume and pace in there lines the pauses also helped us understand the situation the characters where in.      
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There where certain times when times when these skills where shown especially well:

There was a radio play that took part during the play for this the actors had to play more then one person at a time they also had to add sound effects. This part of the play was also very humorous the staging was very interesting all the actors where stood around a tall lamp with no lampshade on it.

There was a dentist scene where props where used very wisely three suitcases on stools where used as a dentists chair the dentist and his assistant ...

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