Vaudeville evaluation.

Today we performed our scenes from The 39 Steps. I believe it went very well. I worked well with my partner and we exchanged ideas well, listening to each other and working out how we could turn a normal script into a quirky and funny piece by working out our tone and body language.

I think this was hard at times as making our body language funny could be quite difficult and look rough and not funny in places. There was a fine line of exaggerating the piece and going too over the top. Which was difficult to contain. In addition, getting the tone right was hard as well. Most of the humour came from the way we delivered our lines, so making sure our tone was correct allowed for maximum humour of our lines, but did take some practice to get hold of.

If we were to do this piece again, the one thing I would change is the pace at which our piece moved. Too many times did we slow the pace of the scene, which wasn't representative of the vaudeville style. It's meant to be fast paced and move quickly from line to line to add to the humour and impact of the punch lines. I think if we had more time to work on our scenes and had time to learn our lines more thoroughly, then this would be achieved with success.