How Would You Want Your Audience to Respond to Nina in Her Final Appearance of the Play? Discuss How You Would Perform the Role, in Three Sections of the Play, in Order to Achieve Your Aims.
How would you want your audience to respond to Nina in her final appearance of the play? Discuss how you would perform the role, in three sections of the play, in order to achieve your aims.
At the end of ‘The Seagull’ the audience will have seen Nina’s journey from youthful optimism in Act One, as the adored girlfriend of Konstantin and a would-be actress, to disappointment and unhappiness in Act Four, as the abandoned lover of Trigorin and a third rate professional actress.
If I were to play the role of Nina, I would want my audience to be saddened by my final appearance at the end of the play and yet to respond positively to my fortitude. The audience see that my dreams have been thwarted, although not extinguished.
Nina is a very significant character in the play, she is the character most clearly associated with the motif of the seagull, and, although not always considered to be the main role in the play, this association suggests that ‘The Seagull’ might be considered to be Nina’s story.
In order to achieve my preferred audience response of sadness and respect for Nina at the end of the play, I intend to play the role naturalistically; I will have to prepare the audience, carefully in the Acts leading up to it.
All of the characters in the play seem to be unfulfilled in some way but Nina’s youth and purity should mark her out especially for audience sympathy.
I will play Nina as a very pretty young girl in Act One with natural beauty and an open and unaffected charm. I will be blonde haired and blue-eyed and rounded in my figure. I envisage Madame Arkadina as dark haired and very trim in her figure; where she is imperious and affected, Nina is sweet, a little shy, and very natural.
The contrast between the two women is significant as Arkadina is a great actress and Nina aspires to be similarly successful. Nina’s fresh faced beauty inspires jealousy in Arkadina, while Arkadina only inspires Nina’s admiration.
My very first appearance
At the end of ‘The Seagull’ the audience will have seen Nina’s journey from youthful optimism in Act One, as the adored girlfriend of Konstantin and a would-be actress, to disappointment and unhappiness in Act Four, as the abandoned lover of Trigorin and a third rate professional actress.
If I were to play the role of Nina, I would want my audience to be saddened by my final appearance at the end of the play and yet to respond positively to my fortitude. The audience see that my dreams have been thwarted, although not extinguished.
Nina is a very significant character in the play, she is the character most clearly associated with the motif of the seagull, and, although not always considered to be the main role in the play, this association suggests that ‘The Seagull’ might be considered to be Nina’s story.
In order to achieve my preferred audience response of sadness and respect for Nina at the end of the play, I intend to play the role naturalistically; I will have to prepare the audience, carefully in the Acts leading up to it.
All of the characters in the play seem to be unfulfilled in some way but Nina’s youth and purity should mark her out especially for audience sympathy.
I will play Nina as a very pretty young girl in Act One with natural beauty and an open and unaffected charm. I will be blonde haired and blue-eyed and rounded in my figure. I envisage Madame Arkadina as dark haired and very trim in her figure; where she is imperious and affected, Nina is sweet, a little shy, and very natural.
The contrast between the two women is significant as Arkadina is a great actress and Nina aspires to be similarly successful. Nina’s fresh faced beauty inspires jealousy in Arkadina, while Arkadina only inspires Nina’s admiration.
My very first appearance