Blondie Evaluation

Evaluation 

On the day of our performance I believe everyone had 100% energy and commitment to the piece. From the beginning you could feel the excitement in the air and that level of anticipation stayed with us through the whole day.

We done numerous performances throughout the day and we changed some things for example the election process, the timing had to be sharp to keep with the music and add to the effectiveness to the peace.

We also sharpened up our transitions into the different social scenes to allow them to flow easier. It was these little things that made a huge difference to our piece, working as an ensemble to deliver to the best of everyone ability.

I believe our rehearsal performance to the rest of our year went exceptionally well, we found that we as actors saw that the piece was becoming quite mundane and dull due to the amount of times we had rehearsed it but once we got an audience into the space we felt ourselves being enraged with energy and liveliness, we found that there were parts that were comical which we had forgotten about adding to our excitement and wanting to deliver a captivating piece of theatre.

Once the time came to perform in front of our parents we were all very nervous but were also confident as we knew we were capable, we had to remember that when we put on a plaquard we become those characters meaning we embodied the physicality of an old person or a "young lad", pushing our stereotypes with gestus, yet still alienating the audience with our plaquards so they weren't seeing us as a character rather a representation. The point of Brecht is never to become a character only to represent.

I think the pace of the piece went really well, nothing was rushed taking away from it but nothing dragged on either, our timing as a company went really well, we all read eachother's body language and thrived of off one another.

At the beginning of the play we had trouble with the sound but there were only two audience members in the room at this stage, the technical difficulties then manifested through the course of the play but we went on anyway because nothing should stop you from performing even if sound is a major part of your piece which it was.

One thing I think we could have improved on was the tightness of some of our ensemble work, if we made it more synchronised then we as a company would have looked more unified.

Overall i  believe our piece of theatre was a success, it left the audience questioning what they saw and asking themselves if they prejudge people the same way that people did with "Blondie".

"When was the last time you held someone, and registered how precious they truly are?"