1. My Character is Nicole Harper
My character is a girl who has been through a lot in her past and the most important thing in this
case is the incident that occurs between Carla and her which results in the betrayal and both girls
ending up in prison.
This character was a very tough character as it was firstly one of the main roles and completely
different to the type of individual i am so when I firstly began acting and playing her part it was quite
hard to show her anger when speaking from the script but overtime by practising and setting my
mind and feeling what this character went through it was easier to show her emotions through
actions and the way I spoke my words. Throughout the play i have to soften up as i want the
audience to see the other true side to me in which i hid away when i came to prison, so i had to act
in a way that allowed the audience to see how i changed and this was again through the way i spoke
and acted at times.
What i was mostly worried about was singing to an audience, singing was definitely not my strongest
point and i had never done anything like this before so it would be really good to see how i build up
my confidence in the upcoming weeks.
What i mostly had trouble with was singing and doing actions at the same time, not for the main big
songs but for the slower ones especially the scene of me and Yasmine where I had to do freeze
frames while singing this slow beat song let alone remembering all my lines especially since i
practically the main character i had a lot of big chunks of lines all in one go which i had to act at
different paces.
In order to overcome all these problems i thought to myself that i would dedicate a lot of time to the
scene which included only me and a few other characters so i could really work on my character in
terms o f singing begin to sing in front of the other actors and move on to friends just to build up my
confidence. I was really excited to be picked to be this character as it looked like a fun challenge!