Today was the day of our final rehearsals and performance for La Mer, the class was at Pelham tower for 11 hours, rehearsing, having directors notes, helping each other and performing in front of friends and family, and having support from the second year actors and level 2 actors!
My groups final performance I feel went really well, we felt it was the best we have ever performed it, I am proud of my group and myself for the hard work we put in to create our devised piece. I received great feedback from my friends and family after they watched the show and I feel very pleased with how it went, and the performance as a whole.
My group's performance was last out of the four devised pieces, and we feel it was a strong ending to the performance, as we used movement and a voice recording at the end of our piece, this I feel created emotions between our characters and I feel the audience definitely felt the emotion we were portraying.
I felt the movement pieces all went extremely well and I received good feedback for both pieces. My groups devised movement piece we performed before our drama piece began was a lot better and flowed very well, it was the best we had ever performed the piece, it flowed like the sea and every movement was sharp and on time.
The final movement piece went really well, we were all in time with each other, some points it went slightly out of time, but we went with it and overall it went extremely well and I am happy with how the whole performance went.
I have enjoyed working with my group so much and we have always had complicity with one another and always listened to each others ideas and tried the ideas out, and interpreted them in our own individual ways. Our characters works so well with each other and they were all unique and had their own characteristics.
There was never any tension or bad feeling at any point in our devising, and we all have mutual respect for each other as actors, and friends.
What we could have improved…
- We used all of the stage during our performance, but we could have performed more at the sides of the stage, rather than performing to the front. We did perform to all sides, but we could have done this in more detail
- Our movement piece could have flowed EVEN more!
- Used even more body language to establish our characters, but I feel the body language we did use was very good
- Made the transition from movement to drama piece more flowing and natural
- Used more physical contact between characters; when Summer and Chrissy have a heart to heart about their fathers, my character links Chrissy's arm to show support and affection. I feel all the characters could have done this, to show to the audience that they care for one another a little bit more…
What we did well…
- Our projection was very loud and clear for the audience, we used volume extremely well
- Our group energy was one of our massive strengths, the whole piece had so much energy and excitement to it
- We used humour really well, it was never "Gag" humour, it was naturalistic humour that people use every day
- We engaged the audience throughout
- Our piece flowed really well and there were never any quiet parts or parts that did not make sense
- Team work and portrayal of characters
Overall, I feel our piece was very good and I am extremely proud of myself and my group for our strong and meaningful performance.
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