Confirming our sources is really important. That’s why, after a school presentation made on Central Park, I went to New York to see if what I’ve said was true. Seriously, all the secondary 4 went to a wonderful trip in New York / Washington. Since I’ve work on the topic of Central Park, it will be my theme article.
For all of you that don't know what is Central Park, let me sum it up for you: Central Park is a park located in New York. It's famous for his landscapes and his beauty. I knew that Central Park was big, but I couldn’t imagine it was that big. The park was the opposite of New York: calm environment-friendly, serene, Zen and much more. What was amazing was the fact that even though it was located in New York, the park was quiet, with all the buildings surrounding the park. You couldn’t imagine there was a place with so many trees (just as a real forest) in New York. It was good to have a place to rest and just look around in this really charged trip.
In conclusion, if you ever go to New York, Central Park is a must see attraction even if it's only for five minutes.
My scene featured Demetrius, which I played. Hermia was played by Jade. Helena was played by Vicky. My opponent, Lysander, was played by Phillip Goulet. Oberon was gracefully played by Christophe and Puck was played by Florence.
Lysander is terribly in love with Hermia and Hermia is also in love with him. However, Demetrius is also in love with Hermia. Helena is in love with Demetrius, but it wasn’t mutual. Oberon saw how Demetrius was treating Helena, so he decided to make the young boy fall in love with Helena. Oberon used Puck to put the love juice (which was harvested from a flower) under the pupil of Demetrius. However, Puck took Lysander for Demetrius and while he was sleeping next to Hermia, Puck put the love juice under Lysander’s pupil. The love juice acted as it was supposed to do.When Lysander woke up, he fell in love with the first person he saw, which was Helena instead of Hermia. Hermia thought that Lysander was kidding her since he told her he loved her, so she left everyone and ran away. Since Lysander was in lovesickness with her he followed her. Helena woke up and found out that Lysander wasn’t sleeping next to her. Since Demetrius was standing next to her, she concluded that he killed Lysander. Helena was upset and left Demetrius. Demetrius fall asleep, exhausted by the walk he did.
Oberon was surprised by the domino effect of Puck’s mistake. Oberon wants to correct the mistake by putting some love juice under Demetrius pupil. He would fall in love with the next person he will see. Meanwhile, Puck brings Helena near of Demetrius so she will be the first person he will see. Everything worked out perfectly, but Lysander was following Helena.
When Demetrius woke up, he fell in love with Helena. Lysander was also in love with her, so the two boys started squabbling. The noise attracted Hermia. She was still thinking that Lysander loved her. Lysander told Hermia that he didn’t love her. She was so surprised that she thought it was a joke from Helena.When the bickering ended, Puck told everyone that this was nothing more than a dream…
In this project, I proved to myself that I could act as someone that I’m not. I could be and behave as if it was not me. I’m also impressed by all the facts that I learned from theater by all the presentation that we’ve done in French. However, I knew that I could improve myself by knowing a little more my text and behaving as much as I could in Demetrius.
I didn’t appreciate this project because I don’t relate to the work of Shakespeare. Actually, I’m not really into this kind of acting.I found hard to express IMAGINARY feeling from IMAGINARY people. Maybe someone else would have appreciated more … However; it’s true that I learned about old English from Shakespeare.
