SHOW EVALUATIONS

SHOW 1

The first show went okay. The preset did throw me off slightly as I wasn't really sure I was ready for the experience of greeting the audience, out of character, just before a show. Although it did make the show a lot more Brechtian. The first half, I did my parts without any mistakes however I think I was too self involved and again, wasn't thinking about the ensemble as much. I realised how much I rely on the ensemble because I heavily bounce off of the atmosphere created by the ensemble. I think I could have had a lot more energy and I need to work on my proxemics a bit. I don't think I was sharing to all 3 sides of the audience as much as I should have.  In the first half, there were a few lines dropped in pretty much every scene, but I don't think they were noticeable errors. In the interval, quite a few people were beating themselves up about it and that's why I think morale was quite low. This ended up with the rest of the show being fairly similar. Nothing catastrophic went wrong, but the show didn't feel like it was where it could easily be, There were however, moments which were spontaneous and great within it, it just didn't shine as much as it has the potential to. We definitely needed to have stronger singing as I could tell it was way to quiet and sounded so weak. During the storm scene, I was supposed to be 'conducting' it and making conducting movements, headbang/drum along to the song to create the impression that I was creating it. I didn't feel so comfortable doing it this first time as honestly, I felt stupid and wasn't sure what I was doing or if it was right. I thought my projection was good for this show although it's difficult to know who can hear what on each side. I did feel however, that I rushed some of my lines.


SHOW 2

The second show went a lot better than the first. I feel like we bounced off the audience a lot more which definitely pushed us to do so much better. I tried some things that I came up with in the first show that was spontaneous but they didn't work as well this time. I felt like my first scene wasn't as good as the first night and I think this was because it wasn't as spontaneous this time and therefore it didn't seem as natural. I think everyone's comedic timing was a lot better tonight. Everyone knew when to stop/start talking, interject etc... This makes it a much more comfortable experience for the audience. In the last death scene, I still think we can push it more. There needs to be more emotional connection to it and then I think we can really get it to the next level. I think we can do this by really finding more ways to make new choices, this means that everyone will bounce so much more off of each other. I think as an ensemble, we really owned it tonight. We gelled and worked together extremely well and the tsunami was probably the best I've ever seen it. Our singing was a lot better tonight and I could feel the energy radiating from the words, however we could still push it further. To improve tomorrow, we need to push the death scene further, and still push our singing even further. I need to make sure that I am constantly being spontaneous and making new choices as I was definitely less brave in this show in terms of my decisions. 


SHOW 3

Tonights show was the best version of the show we've ever done. We finally got it to the magical level we all knew it had the potential to get to. Everybody was being spontaneous and in the moment and we really connected to the audience well. From audience members I spoke to afterwards, a lot of them were emotionally invested in the show especially towards the end. For my first scene, I again tried stuff I had done before and I still don't think it worked as well as the first time, although there was a good reaction from the audience, internally I don't think it worked as well. The tsunami scene was awesome. The ensemble was a sea (pardon the pun) of unhinged, yet controlled, white hot anger.  At the death scene, I did accidentally trip over one person who was dying and although it was something I couldn't control, it still will have drawn attention away from what was going on in the scene. The set had not been on my side tonight either. Mainly the platform. The first issue posed was that the door wouldn't close by itself as it used to. This threw me off a bit as I have to stand behind it in the cage and it would just keep swinging open. So, to fix this, during the family scene, I took off one of my shoes and pushed it against the door. No one would have been able to see it. This is the kind of spontaneous thinking that I have been practicing this term and during the process of this show. Additionally, the platform that Sophia and I stand and sit on was extremely wobbly. This was not something I had any control over but I was worried that it would draw attention from the action on stage when I'm climbing up the platform as it starts to swing quite violently. 

I am very glad with what we finally achieved with this show and that we eventually got it to the point where we knew we could get it to. 


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

2004 Tsunami

Image
In our show, we have a tsunami storm. It is slightly based off the 2004 Tsunami in Indonesia. The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, also called the Sumatra-Andaman earthquake, was a great underwater earthquake. The large movement of earth under the water caused a very large and powerful tsunami. The tsunami was called the Asian tsunami, or the Boxing Day tsunami in Australia, Canada, England, and South Africa because it happened on the 26th of December 2004 (Boxing Day). It spread all over the Indian Ocean. The tsunami caused heavy damage to countries such as Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia and Sri Lanka. A total of 227,898 people died. Measured in lives lost, this is one of the ten worst earthquakes in recorded history, as well as the single worst tsunami in history. Indonesia was the worst affected area, with most death toll estimates at around 170,000. However, another report estimated the death total to be as high as 220,000 in Indonesia alone, giving a total of 280,000
Read more

DRESS RUN

DRESS RUN Today we did our dress run, the morning before our show. We were feeling optimistic about the run as all of the last week we had been running the play and it had been really fun and exciting. The first of the run went fine, nothing went wrong and if it did I didn't even notice. However, it wasn't as magic as the rehearsals we have been doing so quite a few of us were a bit confused. The rest of the run ran the same way. I did learn a lot from this run as I did some testing of coming on earlier into the last scene to see how that might affect the atmosphere. It certainly put people on edge so I might use that to my advantage, depending on how the show goes. It was also another opportunity for me to be able to interact/look at an audience. I found it really useful for some last minute characterisation while there was an audience there. This whole dress run really allowed me to stretch my character choices to the limits and create more exciting choices. Here ar
Read more

GIG THEATRE

I've had a think about what Gig Theatre means to me, as Everyman has been described as such. Gig theatre is all about the audience and the experience. It is about music, dancing, acting and all forms of live creation all merged into one. Gig theatre shows must have the potential to go anywhere and be anything at any point. Whether that be live music, spontaneous dance battles or beautifully poetic monologues, all of which should have the potential to make you laugh, cry or want to join in with the escapade. Rules of Gig theatre to me, would be that there must be something new in every performance. Something brilliant, something spontaneous or even something terrible. As long as it's new and unexplored, I think that makes Gig theatre a fabulous concept. Another rule would be that there must be at least 3 forms of live creation: acting, music and dance/movement, regardless of the skill of the cast, music must be made live.
Read more