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In the 20th century was where the most rapid and drastic economic and social change occurred. This resulted in higher standards of living often meaning that the poor remained poor while the rich got richer. The 20th century was also when the most dominant events in history occurred such was both word wars, Spanish flu, nationalism and many more. This introduced an additional controversy

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Warming up physically and vocally as an actor is incredible vital because as an actor you are very physical and practical with all parts of your body, meaning that if they have not been warmed up adequately, the risk of injury or accidents tend to happen. For example before any rehearsing starts, vocal and conditioning exercises should be executed before hand, such as partner exercises, humming/singing, attention requirement games. these warm ups as a whole allows the voice to relax and soften to projection comes more easier and articulation improves; it also allows the body to loosen up and become accustom to the activities and movement it will be doing throughout the day.

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Whilst performing there are additional factors that need to be enforced to further assist in safety. For example, during acting sessions; blackouts can be used - it is important to not move around too much during these (unless instructed to) considering your vision is obscured and you could run into anything causing an injury. Lighting back stage could also be hazardous as well due to the loose wires about, ensuring that these wires are taped down can prevent anyone from tripping or falling. Lights should also be fastened down securely preventing anything from falling on anybody - this can be a fatal injury with irreversible effects causing a knock on effect on the injure d's livelihood. In addition, fire resistant equipment/staging should be used where possible especially if said equipment lies near stage lights.

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To further understand my character there was research that need to be done to know what mindset he was in at this time. Soutine was a Russian painter that grew up British ... later on in his life he hit an entirely rough patch that influenced a lot of his future paintings that he executed. Soutine mostly communicated through his paintings, and used "unnatural" things to add to the authenticity of the feelings that were attached to the paintings. Such as for 'cows carcass' real blood was used in order to execute that painting, further adding to the life of it. Furthermore, considering his Jewish background; he was very susceptible to prejudice and discrimination; this heightened during WW2 causing him to flee the apartment he had in Paris from a fear of being captured and tortured by the Gestapo- this stress took a horrifying tole on hid body and caused him to aggravate his ulcers later leading to his death.

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On the 10th January was when we finally preformed all our individual pieces, from start of performance to end was incredibly smooth and successful considering we only had two days to fully perfect them, due to the fact that our performance was postponed for 3 weeks.  In my opinion the purpose of the text/performance was met during the final assessment due to the fact the audience engaged and was humored throughout the piece. My group and I added to the comedy factor by fully embodying our manly characters through costume and prop additions (with little makeup moustaches) as well as occasionally breaking the 4th wall.

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The first official problem we faced as a group was deciding on what script we wanted to work on and adapt. At first, my group along with the entire class settled on a group script that we would preform; the issue with is was that considering the script only had two characters, with 25 actors the characterisation began to disintegrate. So with that being said, we decided as a class to split up with 5 different scripts to allow the peak of embodiment.

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Another problem that proved to be a significant issue was the three week break our last professional rehearsal and the end performance. Due to a little miscommunication and technical issue, the initial performance was postponed 3 weeks later after Christmas break, considering rehearsals were compromised during this time, the quality of the plays dropped a little. With 4 days to brush up on our lines and characterization it did slightly hinder the performance. However, we over came this by studying our scripts deeply and consisting anything that wasn't tightly put together.

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Due to one of the problems we had, which was that the holidays hindered our ability to rehears has a group. After we came back, multiple rehearsals were executed throughout the day to try and retract that problem. Here you can see a picture of another actor and I walking through the beginning of our play. Another factor to take into consideration was that even though we were set back by past challenges, we as a company had to preform this play within the next two days but we was still on script (if you look closely at the table you can see them there)

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Rehearsal

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So after months of practice, analysation, technical rehearsals the plays/production had come to an end and it was time to receive some feedback from our audience. Requested by our director, all the feedback would be directed to a positive angle the to the limitations we had.
One of the comments for my group's piece was that throughout the performance we "gelled" well together and had excellent chemistry to that the characterization was accurate and easy to read.
Another commentation was that overall our piece was very funny which was good to hear considering that it was partially a comedy, it also helped to know that playing with different factors such as breaking the fourth wall and addressing the audience from time to time, helped carry our performance along.

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