Ever since I read Romeo and Juliet last year in Lit&Perf class, Shakespeare’s work has been the beauty and the pain to me. I love how his writing can be so beautiful and effective, so it automatically gives readers feelings which he tries to express. However, his work is also the hardest one to understand to me, especially monologues. This time I decided to do “To be or not to be” monologue from Hamlet because I wanted to do a monologue with many different layers in it, and I am looking for something that conflictual and dramatic. Also, I am reading Hamlet in my English class now, and I thought what can be a better fit than this monologue?
Even though, this is not the first time that I choose a Shakespeare monologue I am still feeling nervous and worried because it is such a hard piece of performance. I learned a lot about the pace and pronunciation from last year’s Romeo’s monologue about the banishment, and I hope this time I can do better than last because I just had a big improvement on my performing pace and stage blocking from this year’s class activities and fall production. However, since this piece is such a hard piece with all these conflicts in Hamlet’s head. I will need more time to go deep into the character itself. I have been recording myself and checking pronunciation. Also, I am going to perform a song for this class.
Since I am taking Music Performance class and everyone on my class is doing a song except me, I decided to perform a song call The Impossible Dream for this class. I am so excited that I can do two final performance because I love both singing and acting so much, and my mom will also be here for my class which will make it even better! I hope everyone can do their best and use what we all learned so far!
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