Final major project part 1

Recently about 2 weeks ago we me and my class mates received our final major project scripts, 2 scripts where split in the class one called Last summer and the other is Pronoun. I'm playing in Pronoun which is about a female who has turned into a transgender male and the play is about her facing her problems with being transgender around family and friends. So far my first thoughts of this play are that it seems to be a very challenging due to the fact I have never done a play to do with transgender.  I will research about transgender and find out all the aspects to help form my character together so I can play it to perfection.




This will be a difficult task for me I have been given the role of the Dad of the main character of the play the transgender male called Dean. The Dads character is challenging his whole part in the play is to tell the audience about his trouble he has faced with his child Dean and how he finds it hard to have child who has changed gender. He and his wife comes on to stage ,they have no communication with any other actors on stage they only talk between them two  and to the audience. They both share their views with each other about how they coped and challenging they found raising Dean through her gender transition.

For me to play the role to perfection I need show the struggle when speaking about my child transition period , to really show how challenging it was to cope with.


 I need to work on how to emphasis the words when explaining the stories of Dean growing up and stuttering to convince the audience how difficult it was raising a child who's transgender. Its a story so I need to work on how my voice will change when explaining the story to really interest the audience.



When doing this role I have to mainly stay still when acting no sudden movements only if its absolutely necessary to add extra tension when speaking. If I'm moving to much the audience might think in there heads what he doing? is that a part of his role? I don't want that if I move I want to move with cause so the audience can understand why I'm moving. My main objective is to play an older man to a high standard to impress my audience and peers.



The research I will carry  out will be to read  the play a few times to my self to really find out about the mood. Until I understand the play fully understand this play it will be  hard to play my character because I don't understand fully the mood of my own character. Once I understand the atmosphere in the play I will  get more comfortable with my character but this was a massive challenge for me this character.

The play is called Pronoun written by Evan placey , set in the present time. The themes of the play are drama and love really between Dean and Josh, the tension rising between the love they have for each other. I had to really take into account the themes to play my character , so I knew how to stage my character to talk about the transition of Dean when growing up. 

All in all though I will be honest this was a early run through. I wouldn't say this is a performance ready ,we still need to block the scenes to perfection which will take abit more time. I'm glad the play is set in the modern day period , this makes it easier for me already for such a tough role.