Everyone's a Critic

Partner Evaluation.

I believe that Petra and I worked well with each other. We both put worth effort and tried to understand our scene from each other's respective. This was hard for me since neither Petra nor I have had any training in acting; nor have we acted in anything before this class. Luckily, Petra was really chill with my lack of acting and was able to help me when I struggled with Proof. I'd give Petra full marks for being willing to act and take direction from others.

I felt it a pleasure to work with Paul. He truly is a nice man and a talented actor in training. Like Petra, Paul has not had any formal training so it made it rather difficult to act out our scene. We both struggled with the comedy monologue not really understanding what to do with the direction we were given. It would have been nice to act alongside someone who had had formal training but I am glad for getting to know Paul better; and sometimes not knowing anything about acting allowed for Paul and I to react better to each other’s tactics. However for the record I would like to state that I am frustrated with this class in the area of not being clear enough in the directions that are given. On several occasion I has graded or instructed to correct something in a scene because I had failed at something, like objectives or a tactic. However I was unsure as to why I failed in this area. In the future I would like to see the class build around theory instead of practicum, this might help to eliminate several problem I found in acting. Knowing the theory might help me to act better instead of taking the headfirst approach to acting.