IB Lit & Per Ivan Kapkov

  Ivan Kapkov IB Literature & Performance Ms. Guarino The Glass Menagerie is a memory play written by Tennessee Williams in 1944 as his second biggest success , and its action is drawn from the memories of the narrator, Tom Wingfield . Tom is a character in the play, which is set in St. Louis in 1937. His dream job is to be a poet who travels around the world and try new thing and new perspectives, but in the real world, he toils in a shoe warehouse to financially support his mother, Amanda , and sister, Laura . Mr Wingfield, Tom’s and Laura’s father, ran away years ago and, except for one postcard, has not been heard from since. The major problem in the family is the conflicts between Tom and his mother Amanda, those fights produce consequences that output influence on family members. Tom decided to leave his family like his dad did. Years later, though he travels far, he finds that he is unable to leave behind guilty memories of his sister Laura.    ...

Outline " TGM Essay " Written Coursework: A- Literary Analisis B- Experience/ Performance C- Language Play introduction:  The Glass Menagerie is a memory play written by Tennessee Williams in 1944 as his second biggest success , and its action is drawn from the memories of the narrator, Tom Wingfield . Tom is a character in the play, which is set in St. Louis in 1937. His dream job is to be a poet who travels around the world and try new thing and new perspectives, but in the real world, he toils in a shoe warehouse to support his mother, Amanda , and sister, Laura . Mr Wingfield, Tom and Laura’s father, ran off years ago and, except for one postcard, has not been heard fr.om since. The major problem in the family is the conflict between Tom and his mother Amanda that produces consequences that output can influence someone's feelings. Tom decided to leave his family like his dad did. Years later, though he travels far, he finds that he is unable to leave behind ...

Ivan Kapkov IB Literature & Performance Ms. Guarino The Glass Menagerie scene project opened a new world for me as well as showed me how hard actors work to perform in theatres in front of an audience of thousands. This project introduced me to that hard work that constantly requires changes in the script and getting confused with your lines, being nerves before, after, and during the performance. Another lesson that I've learned from my unfortunately unsuccessful performance is how hard it is to be on the stage and perform in front of the audience. It was really hard to show the audience that you’re a part of the character that you are playing and that you can manage to connect to the scene. After this experience of performing in front of my class that contains only ten people and struggling with doing that, I can not imagine how a proffecional  actor can be so confident and calm  where you’re constantly judged, critiqued, however, you want to classify and manage to p...

Ivan Kapkov IB Literature & Performance Ms. Guarino First draft Feedback On the feedback that I and my group received after our performance I understood that our performance wasn't presented in a way we expected it to be, but we learned a good amount so that we can improve our performance as well as our techniques. Based on the feedbacks towards me, my main issue was my tempo; it wasn’t clear for my audience what I was saying because I was too fast, in fact, my scene requires me on talking fast and loud as well as my character “ Amanda “. I’m working on my tempo and I will figure out the way to bring the same energy to the audience but with different speed. Stage usage was a major tool that I and my teammates, unfortunately, didn’t use, indeed my scene does require stage movement to show the audience the conflict between Laura and Tom. This nuance will play a big role in our play and if we will manage to fix it audience will fully understand the output of conflict and re...