Lesson 6

This was the last lesson before the performance and the first time we were rehearsing in the room of the actual performance, this meant we had a lot of technical issues to overcome, the staging was one, but we managed to sort that out fairly quickly as the room was shaped perfectly for what we wanted.

We were just fine-tuning the smaller parts of the play, for instance the changeovers from pairs of ‘Man’ and ‘Woman’.  We decided that the easiest way for this to become unnoticeable would be to divert the audience’s eyes, so we thought that having a ‘customer announcement’ at every changeover would help the play run more smoothly.  However the changing of the characters was still occurring on stage, which alienated the audience in a effective manner.

I spent some of the time in this lesson simply walking around the space and dodging the stage objects so I could gain a simple understanding of the space around me and were I could move freely.

The performance to the other Theatre classes was the smoothest performance that we had, I believe this was because they had been studying the same topic as us, so the understood what our performance was about.  There were little to no faults in this performance, one of which I noticed was that my fellow actors and I found it difficult to keep acing even when we weren’t the main ones on stage at the time, but as I recognised this, I managed to rectify it before the real performance.