A Link to our rock challenge performance at the Hawth Theatre - Crawley
Our main stimulus for Rock Challenge was the Oscar Wild story of 'Dorian Gray' This is a variation of the story of selling your soul to the devil. In this story the character of Dorian wishes that he could live for longer and be more desirable towards the women. For this performance i was lucky to be cast as the character of Dorian, which is the main character of the show.
Our story line follows the main points of the plot, and it started with Dorian with the other men and he was getting jealous of how much attention they were getting from all of the women. I showed this mainly through my facial expressions, but showing a sense of confusion, but i also showed this through my body language, by being a bit all over the place with my movements.
The next scene went on to show my character meeting his love, this was a duet with one of the girls in the company, who was playing the part of Dorian's love. I found this the easiest scene in the performance to show the stimulus and the themes of love, as i had performed with the girl before, so already had some chemistry to show my love for the character. We used parts of our original of our duet, that involved a lot of contact and close proxemics. this showed that the two characters were in love and showed their relationship blossom throughout.
The next point in Dorian's life was my character getting taken over by the devil and having all of the women crawl around for him, we showed this in a very stylised manor, having all of the girls posing around me and getting closer. This for me was the hardest scene to perform as it was the most out of my comfort zone, and had to show a completely contrasting character to what else was in the performance.
The next moment in the production i was slightly less involved in, this was the scene that showed Dorian's love killing herself for his love, we showed this through fluid movements to show the water drowning her. For this scene i was placed up on the set structure, and was dancing with one of the girls, in a saucy manor. This i think carried through the themes in every scene as the audience could see me dancing above as she killed herself below.
The final scene shows my character repenting and having a break down, as he finds that his love is gone,this was my favorite scene to perform in the show, as i got the chance to go wild and let myself go, i showed my character losing control through, big wild movements and not making everything small and controlled.
I was really please with my performance in the Dorian Gray dance, as i was on stage for the whole piece and feel that i help to keep the stimulus and themes of love and repenting flowing through out the piece.
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