Just before a few weeks before the performance---The Taming of the Shrew, the director Ms. Mistchrich---my English teacher had encouraged us to watch this famous drama written by Shakespeare and my classmate Richard played a role in it. Then I became curious of this performance and bought a ticket. I had heard the Grade 12 student Cherry would play the lead actress and the Grade 11 student Fan would play the lead actor. Cherry is my basketball teammate and she plays very well. Fan is a boy in Kung Fu club and he is very strong . I was looking forward to watching how they acted in the drama.
The Taming of the Shrew would be acted on December19,2008 at 7 o’clock in the evening in the NFLS big hall on the third floor above the cafeteria. After school, I went to have dinner quickly with my classmates---Zoe and Karen, then we rushed to the hall to wait for. Until 6:50p.m. my classmate Nick was the volunteer to check the ticket, so we gave the tickets to Nick directly and entered the hall. There was a big curtain hanged on the stage, before the curtain, there was a chair and four cupboards stand on the two sides of the stage. I recognized the cupboards immediately because a few weeks before, Ms. Mistchrich had asked for volunteers to paint the cupboards and I attended. At this time, I took a photo of myself with the stage.
The Taming of the Shrew is a story about a shrew and a strong man. The shrew Kate was very grumpy and no man dared to marry her. The strong man Petruchio decided to marry her and happened something funny between them. I found something interesting through the show. First was the drunk man Sly , the actor Charles was very funny, his acting was really like a drunk man with stupid body languages. Then was the scene of the shrew Kate appeared first, she was chasing his younger sister Bianca to beat her. Cherry was a wonderful actress that she shouted and chasing to show Kate’s grumpy. All the audience were laughing because of Cherry’s acting. After that was the scene of the meeting between Petruchio and Kate. Petruchio wanted to flatter Kate but he failed. However, he decided to marry her. Kate became crazy and started to scream. It was so terrible that all the audience wanted to become deafness, but we all admired Cherry for her excellent acting skills. After that, Lucentio and Bianca were another couple and they had a honey love, they pretended to kiss and used big acting movements that made all the audience shout all the time and could not stop laughing. Sometimes I also found it was exciting. The scene of the night Kate and Petruchio were preparing to sleep. I was excited to see how they played. Petruchio was fallen from the bed two times and then he waked Kate up for three times. Petruchio won at last because Kate decided to sleep in the kitchen.
Actors or actresses were both very important to control their feeling and faces. I learned it from Fan’s acting. In the scene of the meeting in Lucentio’s house, Petruchio was angry that Kate obeyed his orders and he started to shout. When he was excited to shout, he said a word sounded like a sentence in Chinese and some watchers began to laugh until all the audience began laughing. I thought Fan would laugh., but he did not and he beared to show his poker face. I imagined if Fan laughed that all the performance would fail, so in some way, Fan saved the performance.
In general, I like the performance very much. It gave me the true feeling of drama and the unbelievable acting skills.
The Taming of the Shrew would be acted on December19,2008 at 7 o’clock in the evening in the NFLS big hall on the third floor above the cafeteria. After school, I went to have dinner quickly with my classmates---Zoe and Karen, then we rushed to the hall to wait for. Until 6:50p.m. my classmate Nick was the volunteer to check the ticket, so we gave the tickets to Nick directly and entered the hall. There was a big curtain hanged on the stage, before the curtain, there was a chair and four cupboards stand on the two sides of the stage. I recognized the cupboards immediately because a few weeks before, Ms. Mistchrich had asked for volunteers to paint the cupboards and I attended. At this time, I took a photo of myself with the stage.
The Taming of the Shrew is a story about a shrew and a strong man. The shrew Kate was very grumpy and no man dared to marry her. The strong man Petruchio decided to marry her and happened something funny between them. I found something interesting through the show. First was the drunk man Sly , the actor Charles was very funny, his acting was really like a drunk man with stupid body languages. Then was the scene of the shrew Kate appeared first, she was chasing his younger sister Bianca to beat her. Cherry was a wonderful actress that she shouted and chasing to show Kate’s grumpy. All the audience were laughing because of Cherry’s acting. After that was the scene of the meeting between Petruchio and Kate. Petruchio wanted to flatter Kate but he failed. However, he decided to marry her. Kate became crazy and started to scream. It was so terrible that all the audience wanted to become deafness, but we all admired Cherry for her excellent acting skills. After that, Lucentio and Bianca were another couple and they had a honey love, they pretended to kiss and used big acting movements that made all the audience shout all the time and could not stop laughing. Sometimes I also found it was exciting. The scene of the night Kate and Petruchio were preparing to sleep. I was excited to see how they played. Petruchio was fallen from the bed two times and then he waked Kate up for three times. Petruchio won at last because Kate decided to sleep in the kitchen.
Actors or actresses were both very important to control their feeling and faces. I learned it from Fan’s acting. In the scene of the meeting in Lucentio’s house, Petruchio was angry that Kate obeyed his orders and he started to shout. When he was excited to shout, he said a word sounded like a sentence in Chinese and some watchers began to laugh until all the audience began laughing. I thought Fan would laugh., but he did not and he beared to show his poker face. I imagined if Fan laughed that all the performance would fail, so in some way, Fan saved the performance.
In general, I like the performance very much. It gave me the true feeling of drama and the unbelievable acting skills.
