Freshman Seminar Spring 2011: F6A

Attending voices was very exciting. Being able to see another person act out my monologue was interesting. Before i heard her say my words, i knew who was going to do it. Listening to everyone’s blogs allowed me to explore myself. By listening to other peoples thought i found more about myself that i had yet to realize. I found myself relating to many other situations. Voices was a wonderful experience.

VOICES… i didn’t really like it. It had some fun and sad moments, but i would prefer to see a play made by them. We are not writters. It was a good idea to write monologues to the class because we know each other better now, but it was a waste of our time. Most of the people had to asked for a day off or had to leave their work to go to something that it wasn’t worthy. Maybe next time it should be during weekend or after 6 pm where nobody have any problem to assist.
One thing i have to admit is that the actors and actresses put o lot of effort to tried to do something with the monologs and i appreciate that. But in general i didn’t like it.

It’s very interesting to hear other people reading, other people’s monologue. It’s a pleasure to see the emotional elements of the readers. It’s like watching a play conducted on the stage except music is missing. Various accents are noticed in one sitting and it is a privilege for me to hear these monologues.

It’s very interesting watching the performance of the monolog. I always believe that what people write inflects who they are. We can always read the writers by reading their works. And the actors acted like whoever the writer is based on their understanding of the monolog. It was a good way for us to see what other people is like and what they are thinking. For the writers whose monologs were presented, it was a good way to know how their monologs were understood by others and who others think they are by reading their monologs. It is good to hear others’ voices.

However, I think they should choose a better timing to present it. Actually, I was not happy to take a whole day off just sitting there watching a one and a half hours performance of students’ monologs. Noon time is really not a good choice. Even early in the morning or late at the afternoon will work much better than that. The whole thing about Voices and Monologs is a pretty good idea. I just hope that the Voices holders will consider the value of the student’s time and make the time more acceptable.

Voices was a very eye opening experience. Sitting in the theatre with all of the sprig 2011 freshman and listening to the different monologues made me feel a bit more connected to everyone there. Hearing the actors and actresses act out our monologues made me wonder what the writers look like and how they preformed it. My monologue was in the show and I was very excited to see what they did. The actress who preformed mine really brought it to life. I feel like she really gave it her all and even put more emotion in it then I intended. When the other audience members were talking about it I really felt that we all went through the same experience. We all felt connected and wanted to get to know each other more. This makes such a large school like Baruch feel like a family.

i will just hop on the bandawagon and say that everything was great. but really i thought some scenes were overacted or underacted. the girl that did Shana’s… not sure she really did it well. the actor that did elizabeth’s was too emotional in general. but all in all, the experience was great. it was really interesting to see them give life to a script that wasn’t theirs. good show.

From start to finish I enjoyed watching each piece being acted out. The actors were great and so were the written pieces. Like they had mentioned that day, if it wasn’t for the outstanding monologues written with pure honesty and feeling, the actors had nothing to work on. I think that it was great how each actor had certain types of pieces that they acted out. As a result, once one actor would step up, you would have a sense of what type of monologue was up next. I think that it was really exciting to wait and see how each monologue would be presented because it was quite different to how the writer presented it. Although the actors re arranged the presentation of each monologue, they were able to still keep the meaning behind each piece, which is a great thing that they managed to achieve throughout the whole presentation. So overall, I had a good time listening to the different types of situations going on in other peoples’ minds.

Voices was a really nice way to give life to the freewrites that we did in class.

In a way the actors really embodied some of the monologue’s authors that were selected to be performed.

For example the girl that did Jenny’s monologue, talked like Jenny, stand up against the wall like Jenny, and came across just like Jenny does when she talks to you.

Also , for the girl who performed Shana’s monologue, she used the tone of voice and spice that Shana gave while she did her monologue in class.

It was really nice to hear the Voices of all the other authors who put together their personal experiences into their monologues.