The performance today went fairly well but you could definitely tell we were all nervous as we all messed up a few times however I think we all worked really well as a team to cover each other and carry the play on despite any mistakes. I was a daunting experience to start with knowing that Eva was in the audience as we didn't want to offend him, however I think we soon relaxed and just enjoyed ourselves as we knew we only had two chances left to perform this wonderful play that we had all worked so hard on. this made us all have a very high and bouncy energy on stage which really aided the play as many of the scenes needed that fast pace energy to engage and move the play forward. Unfortunately despite rehearsing it previous to going on stage the 'buzz, click..etc' went wrong which was a bit annoying but I tried to move the scene along with my 'and its not like' when I realised that the 'buzz...click' section wasn't going to be continued.
I know that personally this wasn't my best show and is not my best acting/performing ability because I felt like I was holding back a little on both the acting and dancing purely out of nerves and the newness of being on the stage with the audience sat in a semi-circle around which was different to how we had rehearsed. My volume still was not excellent but the audience apparently could hear what I had said however I know I also struggled a few times with my clarity and diction especially when lying down trying to say the word 'shoulders' just didn't want to happen.
However I really did take on board what Simon had said about dancing like no one is watching you in your bedroom as a crazy 11 year old and I did try and go for it with all my energy which showed off in the feedback I personally received from audience members who critiqued all 11 performers in detail.
I believe that the performance went well and that we should all be proud of our work and our effort as Evan seemed pleased with the way we had been directed and how we had portrayed his characters and his story which was lovely to hear because we were all a little bit worried how he would feel with us playing around with his Play despite knowing that it is such a flexible text you never want to insult the playwright!
Today's performances seemed to go much better, we were much more confident and the energy was brilliant. We had spent time practicing all of the bits that went wrong or that we messed up on yesterday and they were perfect tonight, the 'buzz, click, pop' was snappy and everyone remembered all of the notes we and Simon had given us on our 1st performance and put them into place. We knew that because this was are final performance of 'Girls Like That' that it needed to be amazing and really show of the Performance work and ability of Community Arts Practice and I believe that we really did show all of our wonderful audience: peers, brit students, parents and friends just how good we are! Personally I believe that because we wanted the show to be good and look fantastic that it actually was because we believed in it.
The transitions between scenes worked well and were improved on yesterday when it still felt a little slow, it was however amazing to see the transition in the performance from the rehearsal as only a week ago the play as a whole was slow, boring and dragged a lot, to see the difference from then to now is fantastic and to know that we all helped each other to get to the level that we achieved today was amazing.
we did have a few problems for this performance like missing props (candle) and messing up a little bit with the lines but we managed to cover ourselves and work through any problems that arose.
I have enjoyed the cast and the play a lot even though we have had many ups and downs it has been an experience I am not likely to ever forget! I am really happy that Simon choose this play as it offered us as performers a very interesting and inclusive experience and it was really nice to have Simon as our director because you could see the passion he had for the play and because he knows Evan he was able to judge what Evan may or may not like which had we had a different play he may not have been able to do.
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