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A Good Performance ( A Little Something I Learned In Drama Class)
A good performance
Always lacks conformance
It sometimes breaks convention
Without any capitulation
While remembering the need to consider the audience.
Wait! ... are they also part of the performance?
A good performance can’t be set in a frame
If you did the performance would be maimed
A good performance is something best left to boggle the mind
Instead of feeling the necessity to fill in every detailed line.
Always lacks conformance
It sometimes breaks convention
Without any capitulation
While remembering the need to consider the audience.
Wait! ... are they also part of the performance?
A good performance can’t be set in a frame
If you did the performance would be maimed
A good performance is something best left to boggle the mind
Instead of feeling the necessity to fill in every detailed line.
Published 27th Jan 2012
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The author encourages honest critique.
"Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality."
Ralph Marston.
Great write. It's strange how we like drama class in school. Then once out of school...we want no more drama in our lives
Ralph Marston.
Great write. It's strange how we like drama class in school. Then once out of school...we want no more drama in our lives
27th Jan 2012 6:31pm
Thank you for the great response. Yes I never thought that when I got into the class that I would like it as much as I did and I especially didn't think that I would take away all the knowledge that I did.
28th Jan 2012 2:36am
Knowledge is to learn from ones mistakes, but wisdom is to learn from the mistakes of others! Remember that you are wiser that knowledgeable. Once again I love this poem
30th Jan 2012 1:12am
6th Jun 2012 2:11am
clean, forward and descriptive! i enjoyed!simple yet provocative... i think ;0
7th Jun 2012 00:52am
=) Thank you for the beautiful comment Cao. I'm glad you enjoyed it. and Yes when I wrote it I was mainly just trying to use a bunch of terms that my teacher used to describe plays. Though I originally hadn't thought about provocativeness when I wrote this piece. I have been finding out that plays that fit this idea of a good performance usually are provocative. So yup no worries =) you where correct.
xoxo
Alice
xoxo
Alice
