Last entry i posted about our year play. I focused more in the acting rather than the production task which was the most stress-ant thing i ever known.
This entry would be focused in production task. Production tasks helps you to organize your things, be responsible and work as a team. Even though this year it didn't showed to much team work, we focused more in finishing our tasks and being the bests. Still, I did help Kenzo with some colors and design of costume.
At this production task work, we had to create the atmosphere and superficial part of the scenario with the most minimal things.My production task was about make up. First i thought it was really easier because of my already finished drawings of makeup but the hard part was coming. The buying.. that reminds me i gotta ask Mr. Mitchell to pay me because of its treat of turning back my money.
Make up turned to be really awesome. The one i liked the most was the kumadori because it made the facial features to enhance more which was the japanese´s point.
I learnt the colors meaning, the lines meaning and that´s it. Like kabuki is a superficial play, the most important thing is to obtain a perfect look. And also to showoff the characters.
My character of the spider was quite a weird one. No background to hold off. Even though, i had moreless an idea it was really hard to start to making it.
I found that music really helps a lot with acting when i was practically on stage. I mean, ive already seen that by being part of the audience. But now it was different when it came to me to be part of that acting. I felt my body was able to follow more less a rhythm instead of just moving the steps. I felt it had more sense and even though it might sound weird, i felt as if the whole scene i was suppoused to dance. My brother keeps bothering me telling me that i was dancing the shakira moves!
But now i think a little bit more, for making this kind of spirit i did inspired myself in some characters as a lion focusing its pray. I just didn't though of that i actually sometimes, as when it was the exorcists entry , i though of a hungry animal looking its food and actually felt it.
But, i must admit it was really strange.
What i was asking my self was... music is suppoused to follow the characters or are the characters the ones who follow it? Because in most of the parts i though of myself following it but in others it was as it followed me
Even though im not sleeping because of homework i feel really happy cause i don't have to worry anymore for production tasks!
The play has finally come to an end and yes we had fun but, its too stressing for myself to have a lot of responsibility on top.
There were a lot of people coming and congratulating me for the makeup and sometimes if they were able to recognize me ... for my acting.
"Miyuki y los tres demonios" was my first play, im not counting my primary plays because i wasn't even noticed where i was standing. It was a great experience.
Kabuki ended being for our drama club a way of living. I think we are never gonna forget this experience. Even more because it ended being a totally different idea of a type of theater i had. Yes, I know they are different types of acting for each type of theater but i never expected the rules to be that different.
This being my first big play taught me that emotions aren't always needed to create a good play and interest in a character. Kabuki, in difference of other plays im used to know about, requires not to get into the feeling or emotions your character might have. It is more an superficial way of acting.
I really didn't had much problems with this aspect because my character seemed to try an give an special impact over the audience rather than affect the audience feeling with its own feelings. If you get and analyze the feeling of it from the audience point of view you would find revenge, anger, satisfaction in some points and other things. But, when i was acting i didn't had in mind any of these ideas. I've just found this after watching my scene in a recording camera.
I had a lot of fun in creating my character. I mean, it already existed but i adapted to myself.
When they presented me the character i was in shock. I didn't knew how that thing would get to talk or even walk. I asked a lot of times for a guide to build my character but they practically showed me the character with a music background showing spiderwebs.
So my idea was: Im a strange creature which throws spider web and is really ugly.
With some strange ideas on my monster addictions i found a way to make my character be scary and intriguing by moving all my body in a weird way without breaking kabuki rules. This meant i didn't focused my movement in one part of my body, i didn't left the way the feet were supposed to be if i was a woman spider and i tried to maintain a similar voice all character had but in a more spooky way.
After all i had a lot of fun and learnt a lot of things in this process.
Once more, in this play we saw typical things about a specific culture. Making us to never forget that each theater has a culture behind it. In this case we had the Japanese culture where they showed that the honor was one of the most important things and that woman didn't had a word in their decisions ( maybe in our play the cooker breaks a little bit this concept).
So i ask, what if directors adapt to much an existing style to the way they are used to direct? Would it still be named as it was before or would it had a new name? What must a way of theater contain to be a good way of theater and be know around the world? Because, it´s obvious they might be a lot of ways of acting but... how do you know which is the best and how is it going good?
