Plastic & Masking Tape Monologue

One of the ways I was very successful with performing my monologue was that I had a lot of emotion when I was delivering my lines. My monologue was about a father who was angry at his two sons for breaking the basement window and I felt I really acted out the anger that my character was meant to have. Another reason my performance was strong was that I did not fidget while I was on stage. I had to focus pretty hard on not doing this but I didn't take steps or move around, I just tried to stand there and use my hands to make gestures to show my anger. One of the things that needs to be worked on for the next time in my performance is the speed in which I deliver my lines and the spacing in between lines. I felt I was rushing through the majority of the monologue because I was so focused on making sure that I spoke the words correctly. Another thing I should work on for next time is not getting flustered when I know I have messed up a line. There is a point in the video where I say “go patch up the window with tape and masking tape” rather than “go patch up the window with plastic and masking tape” and you can hear me follow this mistake up with the words “Oh my god!” I obviously said this out of frustration because I could not remember the line but I realize now that if I would have just kept going and not have done that, it would have been much less noticeable to the audience that I had messed up. My peers all had strong performances for many different reasons. Some of them had really good emotions that stood out while others did a really good job portraying a specific character. I felt we were all speaking at a high enough volume because I remember being able to hear everyone when they performed. I also feel most of us did a very good job not looking nervous on stage. We did this by standing still or making natural movements rather than fidgeting or swaying from side to side. As a class I believe we can all benefit from working on being more comfortable not only performing but even sometimes making mistakes in front of each other. This will definitely come with time but once it happens, I don't think we will be as worried about having to perform or having to go to a second or third time in the event we could not remember our lines the first time around