Hedda Gabler Evaluation

Hedda Gabler Performance Evaluation

Overall when it comes to my performance i think that it went quite well and i am quite happy with the performance and how it was performed. I think that the reason for this is because I was confident when performing and due to my confidence it made the performance more realistic and effective as my character of Hedda is not the type that is openly nervous or scared therefore if i looked scared or nervous the scene would have been less realistic and that means that coming into the scene in a sense of calm and cool made the performance more effective than it would have been if i had not done this. Another reason that i think my performance was quite effective was because to some extent i was improvising and that meant that the audience didn't find the scene boring as it was almost as if it was the first time that it had been performed which meant that their was a lot of energy flowing throughout. In addition before we performed our director give us all notes and mine were to make sure that my voice was projected loud enough and filled the space as we were working in quite a large space and had to make sure that the audience could hear everything that was said, my other bit of feedback was to own my ending as in my scene their is a very dramatic ending as to where Hedda burns the manuscript and I had to make that even bigger and just more. Taking all of my feedback into account i think that my performance was also more effective because of it as after i was given this feedback i made sure to project my voice effectively to make sure that i was always heard everywhere in the space. Also i made my ending even more dramatic and did this not only through my physicality which had bigger and more tense, sharper movements but also through my voice. I made sure that my voice went crazed and colored it accordingly furthermore i projected it further and changed my tone.

However even though i believe that my performance went well it still could have been improved for many different reason, i believe that i could have made my ending even more dramatic when Hedda was destroying the manuscript as it was such a big moment in the play and i think that it could have been done even bigger on my part. Furthermore i believe that when my other two scene partners were conversing i could've had more of a reaction to what they were saying as even though i was supposed to be indifferent it may not have been the most effective character choice at this part in the play. On top of this i believe my voice could have commanded the space even more than it did as even though i projected my voice it could have been even more in terms of showing the authority Hedda had. Also my voice could've been more posh when acting and sometimes i felt as though i came in and out of my 'posh voice' and that it wasn't consistent throughout so i need to make sure that it is, as this is naturalism and it isn't very naturalistic to change voices in the middle of the play. However overall i am quite happy with my scene and how it went and look forward to performing again next term.