When watching back the videos of Dr Faustus I was really please with how I kept up my character, this was mainly from my vocal work that I had looked into, as I felt that throughout the show I kept the voice that I had set for the character, which was a lower tone it my own and spoke slowly yet clearly, I found this apparent in all of my faustus scenes, and when interacting with other characters in the scene I could see that I was not only thinking about my lines that are coming up, but I was remaining in character during the scenes.
One think that I would have liked to improve on would be my characterisation in scenes that I am less directly involved in. If I was to get a second chance at performing the show, I would focus on my character in background scenes, where I was playing faustus, for example the horse coarser scene, when the character and Mephistopheles are interacting and I'm at the back I felt that I drifted off on occasion. To get over this I would set my character targets to achieve in each scene and at every point, for example 'listen in on what Mephistopheles is saying'. I think by setting the targets it would always have me in the zone and involved with the scene.
A postive of my performance would be my characters relationship with Mephistopheles when on stage. I tried to keep up a connection with this character in every scene that we were in togehter, this would go from keep close proxemics and talking, but even the same looks that we would give each other in a scene when something would go our way. I think that the audience really understood the character relationship that we were trying to make her, not only the relationship between the magic, yet the relationship that we interpreted, which was a flirtation between the two. I got good feedback from the audience after as they say that they "could tell that Faustus and Mephistopheles were always on the same page". I am glad that this came across.
Another one of my intensions for my character was to really show off the light and shade of my characters life, from going to the fun party goes scenes, then the sudden change to the realisation of the end of the life. I think that this interpretation was really clear in the one of the last scenes, where faustus enters, surrounded by his friends, and he is in his element and then as soon as they leave he sinks back into himself. I showed this in the show, with an obvious movement of my body, where I would compress my body language back into myself.
As the second half of the play movement very fast, which is when I play Faustus, as it goes from scene to scene, I wanted to show a change in setting and character relationships, one way that this was clear was with the different statuses of the characters that I was in interaction with. I would go from being with the Horse Couser, where I would be the bigger person over him, where I would use my voice to speak down to him and have bigger body language than him, then going straight into the duke scene, where I would have no authority to him. I would show this by a sudden change in physicality, which would change the mood of the scene sharply for the audience, rather than gradually feeling different with the different characters. I felt that this worked really well between scenes, and made it really clear to the audeince what sort of character would be entering next.
Another scene that I was really happy with was the seven deadly sins, I was happy with the scene, solely down to the audience reactions. This scene was very comedic, and brought the energy right up when it feels at a low, and I really enjoyed doing something funny as its what I feel most comfortable with. Every part of this scene had the audience getting involved in, either from laughter to wolf whistling, which I saw as a great reaction to see everyone getting involved as that is was the original performance would have been like.
Other than playing my main part of Faustus I was also involved in the ensemble parts of the show, this included dance numbers and ensemble work to show narrative. Although these were smaller parts in comparison to my main character I feel that when entering a scene I still maintained the same amount of character work and energy that I would have my other scene, one that stood out in reflection would be the opening number, this I feel was a great way to start the show, as everyone entered with enthusiasm for the show and it gave the audience an ideas of the show that we wanted to portray, which was very inclusive and kept the mood alive.
While playing Faustus and all of my ensemble parts, I felt i did everything well in performance that I set out to do, from maintaining character throughout, to showing off all of the intensions that I had for the different relationships for the characters
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