My Jouney 

I am going to analise my journey from start to finish. There will be three different paragraphs on how I started to research my character with exercises and different texts which relate to the dolls house, the moment when I felt most in tune with my character and what exercise helped me most and why and finally how these exercises and research of different texts helped me perform my scene from the dolls house.  

When I started the dolls house I chose the character Krogstad. I chose the character Krogstad because I have done rolls as the antagonist before. For example In the play The Cage birds I was the character Thump and in The glass Menagerie I was Tom Wingfield. Therefore I thought that with my previous experience of being the antagonist I would chose Krogstad. I then studied other texts which have similar characters and context. My three other plays were metamorphosis, The Glass menagerie and An inspector calls. I rejected the Glass menagerie because, although it had the same type of antagonist, Tom Wingfield, it did not have the same context. I rejected the play Metamorphosis as well because, although it had the same context and it had a male antagonist and the same patriarchal society it was to abstract with whole Greggor Sampsa turning into a beetle. I therefore went with the play An inspector calls. It was set in the very early 19th century, it has the patriarchal society and a male antagonist. The male antagonist is Mr. Goole. This character is the one who causes the commotion in the first place. without him there would not be the play. This is the same with Krogstad. I therefore based some of my characteristics around the character of Mr Goole. The exercises that were most important to my progress into understanding and learning Krogstad were super objective where we had to find the super objectives for our character, Leading with where we had to lead with a specific part of the body and what we thought our character would lead with and the final one was the opera house. This was when we were our characters and we had to attend an imaginary opera performance.  

I believe that the most important and most successful one where I felt most in tune with my character Krogstad was the opera house activity. It helped me because we had to think of the context was and how people would walk, talk and act like. But we had to act as though we were our character in the opera house. I walked into the opera house quietly, back up straight, leading with my chest and sat behind the women. all of this was because you couldn’t sit next to a single or married woman if you are married because it would be deemed as rude. I had to walk quietly because the opera was about to start and I didn’t want to disturb anyone. I also had to walk with my back straight and leading with chest because I cared about how looked in front of the higher class and didn’t want to have a bad posture. This was very crucial to my character because Krogstad was middle class aspiring to be higher class. All of these factors helped me mechanically get into role. In this activity I believe that this was the moment I became my character emotionally and mechanically. I wanted to go to the opera because It was what higher class people did and it was a chance for me to meet higher class people therefore leading me into getting a better job, supplying myself and my children. The super objective was the second most important into helping me understand and learn Krogstad. This was because It gave me motives throughout the play. This then allowed me the ability to deliver each line and each movement with a meaning. Then as a result from that activity I learnt how Krogstad would have moved, talked and acted through out the play. A down side to this activity was that it did not teach us about the context of the play which I believe is a huge point not worth missing out because that gives you a huge boost on how the rest of the world around you acted. The third and final activity which contributed the least out of these three was the leading with character. I believe that this was least contributing and helpful because It didn’t get me into my role emotionally. It only taught us how to get into our role mechanically. For a successful activity I believe that it needs to get into my role mechanically and emotionally.  

I used the opera technique in my performance. Before the I performed it researched what was the situation I was getting into as the character and what I should walk, talk and act like. Since it was a woman I was seeing I was immediately at a higher status then her because in this it was a very patriarchal society, where the man is in charge. But the woman I was seeing , Ms Linde, was the woman who left me for a richer man and is taking my job. This then gave me information on how I should behave round her. I then used this in performance. I walked very strongly with each step being very powerful to show that I was in charge and talked in a deep voice to show hidden anger. I lead with my chest through out it but the parts where I felt venerable such "I had to break with you" I lead with my shoulders. I Used super objectives through out the whole of my performance. Each line was given a motive and each movement was given a meaning such as "and you did this for money" I slammed my hands down on to the table and stood up to show the anger I had to situation.