Evaluation

Although there were a lot of nerves throughout the class when it came to the day of our performance, all of the hard work and effort had pulled off. There were many positive aspects to the performance, but also negatives and things that could be improved for the next show.

The song was a big positive, although only being put in at the last minute on the day of the performance, with little time to go through it. When it came to it, it was very smooth and actually fit into the scene. I think this also gave an aspect of Verfremdungseffekt. It wasn't naturalistic but was very symbolic, it represents the changing within the play and sets a scene of different seasons. This pulled off really well in my opinion as it gave a different way of the narrating and telling the audience what was going on. It received positive feedback as people thought it was very enjoyable and made it more interesting. 

The gun had actually gone off in the final performance, three times. In rehearsals it hadn't gone off at times as it had been loaded wrong. However after fixing the problem it had gone off many times which I think it had added to the effect. It left a sense of shock with the audience as they were not expecting something like that. This was a great thing to have in the play I believe. 

The chorus had been a success in my opinion. It didn't look messy or out of place, even though it was scattered. The different tones, entrances and exits the chorus used had added to making it more strange and interesting. It looked enjoyable to see but at the same time creepy. The chorus was a big success and I think it was a vital part to the play and creating different elements within in. 

Although they are some of the positives, there were a lot of things that could of been improved and made better.

The board gag had not gone right and had ended with Zoe actually falling back over the stairs. Even though we knew it was wrong, the audience didn't and it got a laugh from them. The scene is quite serious with Brisket and the gag got in the element of comedy. I think this worked well as it wasn't just one straight emotion. The way we had done the scene in our version, had worked really well and had a great effect on the audience.

Another thing was the technical side, the lights were sometimes late and would change half way through. Although this was not a big change, it sometimes did put some people off. This could of been made tighter with more rehearsals. Overall it didn't effect the overall performance and it was still effective with the audience. 

In my opinion I believe we had performed the play really well both times. The Tuesday performance was the one that went better for me as my chorus parts were tighter and interesting to see, whereas in rehearsal they had been a little sloppy. The final performance was a success with the storytelling as people enjoyed to see the element of people being narrators and not just having it full of characters dialogue. I think this put me out of my comfort zone, as a narrator i was telling the story without being a character. I didn't do much characterisation but was still very creepy at parts with in. The physical theatre aspect had also challenged me as im not very comfortable with it, however i think that pulled off really well and added to the idea of having a Brechtian style play as we had included Verfremdungseffekt many time. It overall was a success as a play and had a great effect on the audience.