I thought my performance went according to plan and I focused on how Agamemnon would feeling throughout the play. I used my costume and props to my advantage, helping the impact on the way the audience thought about the two different characters in the play. The performance was one that came across strongly and I feel that the audience could tell how I was feeling and what had annoyed me so much. My partner was also good at making me actually feel annoyed so that it could bring out the anger in Agamemnon more. For example, he turned around at the right moments which showed a sign of disrespect, and I imagined it was actually happening, which made me react naturally towards him.

My body language was incredibly tense, appropriate for the performance. I think this was vital in keeping myself in the role of Agamemnon and I did so without too much difficulty.

Portraying Agamemnon was something I was not very comfortable with at first, because I didn’t understand who he was and how he got to this point, knowing why he was so frustrated made me take a walk in his shoes, with his mindset. This caused me to act naturally in my scene and I don’t think I had forced something too much.

Although I thought the performance was a success, there were still areas that I could vastly improve on;

  1. Position on the stage – If I did the performance again, I would definitely think about my position and keeping still for longer. I constantly found myself going side to side in the performance, which took the attention away from me sometimes. Being in the centre of the stage would be better, because it states that I am the subject and the person the audience should be focusing on.

2. Keeping the tone of voice – I also found myself sometimes sounding different to what I had a few seconds before, because I would change the tone of my voice, without knowing. Focusing on keeping my voice and tone the same would be beneficial towards the performance as a whole, so the audience has a clearer understanding of what I was feeling as Agamemnon. Sounding like myself (Amjad), was sometimes a problem when watching the performance back, because I found it hard to imagine myself as Agamemnon, but easy as Amjad.