Our Country's Good
Final reflection on ‘ Our Country’s Good’
For our last unit this year we were to discover and investigate how theater change us as both person and actors through reading “ Our Country’s Good”, analyzing the text looking for clues of how theater change people and how it’s presented and also through numerous activities and exercises. We went further to how the race and sex of people can affect its superiority towards the play and also through their daily lives. In other words, we were to examine “ how theater change the way people think and act.”
At the beginning of this unit, we first started to learn about how people act and show the character’s personality, behavior and attitude at once. Also on how people can act as real as they can by putting themselves in to the character’s shoes and doing certain things the character herself/himself would do in different situations. These activities helped us to become the character required and to portray its life of different status and situations. We learned this from using cards that was to represent the different social status and were to use these ranks to imitate their physical appearance, body language, and movement. Then we got in to groups and created a performance including 3 different social statuses from high to low demonstrating the levels of seating, body language, tone of voice and their level of confidence then discussing about how these people are respected or treated depending on how big their role is to the society or certain group and how these people are more superior than others. For my group, we chose to have one person as the McDonald owner, other person as the owner’s assistant and the last person as a person who came from China to get employed. As soon as the employer comes in, she started to “shrink” and look around for comfort to show how shy and small they are. The McDonald owner with her nose in the air does not speak and just sits there while the assistant does the talking then
For our last unit this year we were to discover and investigate how theater change us as both person and actors through reading “ Our Country’s Good”, analyzing the text looking for clues of how theater change people and how it’s presented and also through numerous activities and exercises. We went further to how the race and sex of people can affect its superiority towards the play and also through their daily lives. In other words, we were to examine “ how theater change the way people think and act.”
At the beginning of this unit, we first started to learn about how people act and show the character’s personality, behavior and attitude at once. Also on how people can act as real as they can by putting themselves in to the character’s shoes and doing certain things the character herself/himself would do in different situations. These activities helped us to become the character required and to portray its life of different status and situations. We learned this from using cards that was to represent the different social status and were to use these ranks to imitate their physical appearance, body language, and movement. Then we got in to groups and created a performance including 3 different social statuses from high to low demonstrating the levels of seating, body language, tone of voice and their level of confidence then discussing about how these people are respected or treated depending on how big their role is to the society or certain group and how these people are more superior than others. For my group, we chose to have one person as the McDonald owner, other person as the owner’s assistant and the last person as a person who came from China to get employed. As soon as the employer comes in, she started to “shrink” and look around for comfort to show how shy and small they are. The McDonald owner with her nose in the air does not speak and just sits there while the assistant does the talking then