performance evaluation

New theatre -

Our performance in the new theatre overall went really well and we were able to do one of our bet performances i think. Personally i was really happy with my performance and i remembered  all my lines, entrances and exits, Furthermore i felt comfortable in my scenes when it came to the performance and i felt like i knew what i was doing within them. To have made my performance better i would have liked us to have been able to run the show like we did on the night once before as up until the last minute we were still making mistakes and having to go over things meaning that we didn't go into the performance completely confident. However, despite this i think once we had all done our first scenes and they had run smoothly we relaxed further into the performance and people were bolder and more confident in their choices.

Working in the theatre also gave us all more of an experience of performing properly to an audience and during the show i think this helped lift peoples performances, i also think we worked well to perform to all 3 sides and adjust our bodies to do so. If we were to have had more time working on this i think i would have thought even more about performing to all 3 sides before the performance, especially during my monologue as i found it wasn't until the audience were actually there that you realised how much you had to work the space and so i probably didn't as much as i could have.

In conclusion although i think the performance went extremely well i think leading up to the performance did not and therefore may have hindered us slightly, having a weak dress rehearsal emphasised the amount of work that needed to be done prior to it that we as a cast had not done, therefore the lead up provided us all with a realisation that we can't leave it to the last minute. Luckily i think we all realised it and did a really good performance because of it.

Brighton -

The performance we did at Brighton felt like exceptional hard work as a performer, as we were unable to have any run through in the space it meant that the different exits and entrances had to be figured out in our minds before we put them into action during the show. We also had to deal with distractions and people walking through the performance which sometimes made it hard for you to remain in the scene. For me i think my biggest challenge was my projection, being outdoors meant our voices hardly carried and it sometimes felt like i was shouting on stage to be heard, which has made me realise the importance for me to strengthen my voice as a performer. It was also at points hard to hear other people which made cue lines hard to hear.

Overall I think we still managed to do a good run and we were able to hold an audience, although before stratford i think the outdoor performing is something we all need to think about and work on in order to strengthen our performance there.