Pantomime

As a whole cast trip we all went to go and see a pantomime being performed on stage. We were lucky enough to get to see an Aladdin pantomime which was a different version of the Aladdin that we were performing. This is better because we won’t entirely base our play on the one that we had watched. However, it was nice to have an idea of how to portray our characters on stage and how to act. This resulted in all of us wanting to get our Pantomime to the same professional level as theirs. Seeing how successful their performance was is very up lifting.

Some parts of the Pantomime I remembered and wanted to put into my character. For example, the insults that the Abanarza villain said to the audience members like: “shut it”, “imbeciles”, “pathetic.” These gave me an idea as I was struggling with what to ad lib when walking through the audience in one of my scenes.

The evil character in this particular version wasn’t too mean, which I thought was nice but quite a few times he had to encourage people to boo him. I wanted to play my character both ways. A lot of evil but a little bit of sarcasm. This, I thought, would keep the audience gripped to the plot of my character and make them want to boo me. If they “booed” I knew I had done my job.