DTASC

The festival is tomorrow so the various groups have taken today’s class to practice their speeches. In watching their speeches, I was reminded of the numerous mistakes of beginning drama students. Considering that making a speech is not much unlike a monologue, I was distracted by things like diction, shifting, projection, pacing, and nervousness overall. After making so many presentations in theatre last year, I have actually become quite comfortable in front of an audience. It was immediately apparent that they were unsure of what they were talking about. Once they were finished presenting their work, the class critiqued their presentations. There is definitely a stark difference between critiquing in our theatre class as opposed to in the advanced drama class. Perhaps it has to do with the fact that a number of the IB theatre students do not have previous theatre experience. Comments were a bit superficial and related with items like stuttering and projection. Eventually, Kim and I were able to speak with Karina privately to calm her before tomorrow’s speech. We simply emphasized that everything she was presenting was our own work, our own ideas, our own thoughts. There was nothing she needed to be afraid of because she would be essentially sharing her ideas with a panel of judges tomorrow. We will see how everything pans out by Monday.