Performance evaluation

The final performance could have been better from my point of view, I believe that the structure of the piece was very good, but the more actor orientated things like pronunciation and projection of voice had been better in some of the rehearsals. 

In terms of my own personal performance, I believe that I rectified the problem that I ran into in rehearsals, I managed to stay in role and keep acting even when I wasn’t the main person on stage, I think that the ‘Baby Boy Band’ song went very well and we all got the synchronisation of the dance moves perfect.  But I felt that using baby voices could have given it that extra touch that would have alienated the audience to an even greater extent, but we would have needed more rehearsal time to create a baby voice that can still be understood in terms of pronunciation.

The lack of specific lighting added to the Brechtian feel of the play, and the very fact customer announcements happened on stage helped to alienate the audience this is because in a normal play at the theatre, sound effects (the xylophone) and god-like speech occurs off stage, but in this performance the audience could actually see the person who was speaking and playing the instrument in this manner.

 As we were all in the same room there was no trouble with the cues, however I felt that some of the lines in the performance were rushed and could have been slowed down a bit, this could have been just to do with nerves.

For the bit of the performance when the song (Price Tag) begins, in all the rehearsals I had got to the front of the stage differently, I felt that this was effective as it allowed me to not look robotic when getting to the front.

Overall I believe that although the final performance was a bit shaky at some points, it was still a success, and I have thoroughly enjoyed working on this text and applying Bertolt Brecht’s theatre techniques to it.