Talk About Spastic!

In Act 3 (actually throughout the whole play), the characters in "The Cherry Orchard" are extremely spastic. I meant to point this out in earlier blogs, because it happens all of the time in the play, but I would begin discussing a different topic and then completely forget about it. I found the play extremely confusing due to this odd feature Chekov decided to add to his play. As I read, I feel my brain trying to sort out 20 different stories that belong to 20 different characters which somehow need to mesh together and come out to one ending and make sense; therefore, successfully creating and finishing the play.

Thank goodness for youtube!!!!! The videos of the play helped to keep track of the many different paths which each character tended to follow. The video also made the play seem like more of an extremely dramatic movie, which made it easier to follow and remember. Sometimes when you read, you tend to misread words or entire phrases, or you can misinterpret what the author is trying to portray through his characters. The video made sure that through facial expressions and actions the watcher would receive the exact message the author was trying to give in the book (that is if the director received the right message and creates the movie giving the right message.)

The play also helped me understand the characters and what happened in the play (particularly our scene.) Having to act out a character is a hard task, not only do you have to memorize lines and dress as the person, but you also must enter into that characters mind set. You have to understand why he/she did what he/she did and must be able to portray the scene in a way that makes sense and can relate to the persons way of thinking.