Evaluation

Final Evaluation 

When it comes to the performance overall it went very well. There were a few mistakes that were brushed over using improvisation. Out of the two performances that we done on the day I feel that the second performance in the evening was better. The reason for this I personally think that I put a bit more energy and effort into it, that's not to say that I didn't put effort or energy into the first performance but because of me being more personally attached to the second performance because of family and friends of mine in the audience. Something that I done well was making sure that the stage was well balanced. If during the performance I felt that the stage was unbalanced or heavy on a particular side then I would make sure that it's re balanced. This may have been done for example by going in character to a fellow cast member and pulling them aside in character but also making sure that it wasn't too off putting or didn't make any sense as that would've been very distracting. Something that I could've improved on is keeping the same level of energy in my dialogue throughout the whole performance. A habit of mine is that I tend to lower the projection of my voice subconsciously and it causes me to go quite quiet which doesn't help the performance as the audience will not be able to hear what I'm saying. After the performance I asked 3 members of the audience who had come to watch and asked if my voice projection was good or if there was at any point they couldn't hear me and they said that there wasn't many but towards the middle of the play where I was sitting and the energy from the start had kind of gone. This was encouraging as it showed to me that I am recognisably getting better at keeping my projection of voice loud.

Another thing that I did well was my interaction with other character making sure that my position on stage was helping showing the interaction and reaction between me and whatever character I was interacting with. This helps the audience gauge the kind of relationships they can see between the characters on stage and the more will help them do that the quicker they figure them out and the more of the story they understand. So not only does it help me to get into the habit of positioning myself on stage to make sure the audience can see everything but it also helps the audience to understand the play a lot quicker if the communication between the actors and the audience is very good.

Personally I took too long to learn my lines. Having planned to learn lines on a certain date and not to learn them then puts the whole schedule at risk as it moves everything backwards and delays certain things you can do, for example if you don't learn lines then you can't do a full no script run and if you can't do a full no script run then you can't move on from reading through lines to developing your character, then focus on the production side of things like programmes and costumes and set. So in the future it would be beneficial to not just me but the whole cast for me to learn my lines as quick as possible so that we can progress quicker and get things done efficiently.

Overall in terms of the whole process including rehearsals, research and performance the process was very enlightening to certain things helping me realise what works and what doesn't work very quickly and working efficiently as a group. Something that I would change about the process and what we done is select a play quicker because of how we selected 'Waiting For Godot', in a rush, we picked the play but didn't think about any research points initially so when choosing research points we found it hard to look for them where as if we had chosen a play with substantial amounts of research points and also with us having the same amount of interest then we would've done a better job on the research side in terms of the process.