Acaid: A Performance Analysis Of Orpheus

Performance Analysis Paper Polaroid Stories is a powerful play with a very interesting take on ancient Greek gods and goddesses who have been converted into inner city kids from the ghetto. I realized this only after the play ended, and that was so awe inspiring to me. The way the characters interact with one another and are affected by their environment are depressingly realistic, as they remind me of bad friends I’ve had and situations I could have easily experienced with them. It was hard to focus on only one actors’ performance, but Orpheus definitely stood out to me during my reflection of the play afterward. Orpheus was striking from the first scene, not because of his appearance but of the role he seemed to play. He’s shown to be an intelligent young man living in dire straits, the same as the other drug addicted youths he constantly hangs around with. He has no money but always seems to get his hands on drugs with enough frequency to sell them to other people, like the Skinhead boy. Orpheus felt like real giving his circumstances, as if he were an actual drug dealer who had to deal with such aggressive and dubious people on a daily basis. I felt as if he a fully explored his character’s background as Jesse tells us to do in Let the Part Play You (2001), when she says “When you begin the exploration keep in mind that its purpose is to give you, the
He made me understand the plight of struggling and provocative youths that actually live these kinds of lives. By using the knowledge I’ve gained from Jesse’s book I can fully appreciate the methods that go behind an actor’s character and how they are realized up on stage. He gave such a realistic portrayal of a torrid drug dealer with not much to lose. The nuances, both large and small, give life to Orpheus’ life, full of drugs, sex, heart-ache and