Evaluation

Waiting for Godot 
Waiting for Godot was a brilliant performance and was a success for both of us. We both knew our lines and acting our characters through the piece very well I think we understood the acting style of absurdism and we did use techniques from this to show in our performance so the audience may have understood what type of piece we were doing. I think we used our characters really well and we played up to the audience really well making them laugh throughout the whole piece which was the reaction we wanted. The piece is absurdism so we understood we could mix our lines up and the script had a lot of different parts too so we just had to go with the part that was first to last but could make it random at times. Kat and I found it difficult to keep remember our lines and in the rehearsal stage we would keep trying not to use scripts all the time and keep going with the performance to see where it took us but we needed to make sure our body language and movement was still strong. Our accents as southern people worked really well and costumes as old men who can't afford a lot made us look funny and finished the part of well. Overall Kat and I worked really hard to get this performance the best it could be to show the audience and from the comments and feedback we got from everyone it was successful and the audience were laughing throughout some of the parts was about hanging ourselves and giving us an erections and when I took my boot of and fell over when I finally got it off my foot. I think if we were going to perform it again we should spent more time learning our lines and doing a dress run so we felt more comfortable and knew maybe we were going to use more props like some rope for the hanging part.

Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time
The physical theatre piece went really well all the lifts and movements ran smoothly and looked really effective. Playing this character was a challenge for me planning it but I think the audience understood what I was trying portray a lot of the group had to change their character but I had to keep the same character I think it looked a lot better that we had lots of the lines recorded and then I said all of mine live it worked very well. If I did it again I would do more research into playing this character and looking at different voices I could use. Our group worked really well together and came up with ideas but I think we should have tried out more to see if that would have worked better.

Curious Incident Working Progress

At this point we had decided who is going to say what and decided that a lot of the lines were going to be recorded all mine were going to be live we have decided for costumes that everyone was going to be wearing black a part from so I stand out we are going to have a box or some sort of case to have Toby the pet rat in but you don't get to see the rat we decided to have a platform at the back of the room so when I jump onto the train tracks the audience will have more of an idea that I am trying to find my rat and looking for him on the tracks this means when I get lifted back up it will look like I am getting back onto the platform.

We have come up with a whole performance over the few weeks it has come together really well we are going to make sure the lifts are safe and easy to get up and out of so that I feel safe and the people lifting feel like they can do it simple when preforming this we have recorded all the lines by I will be having gaps for when I speak so I am not mining it we are going to go over different parts of the movement so when we do bits like the train coming train going we all do it together so the audience can get the idea that they are all trying to be me. The part when I am talking to Ed I shall be saying all my lines looking out like he is talking to me but you don't get to see him. Within doing my actions I really wanted to think of a voice I was thinking of sounded a bit more child like and very to the point and state facts because I don't like people touching me that I don't know and London is a brand new place to me so I really need to show the audience I am confused so it could shock them when I jump on the tracks and everyone starts shouting because I don't know I am doing anything wrong.

Physical Theatre - Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

We found out today we were going to be doing a performance of Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time this play is about mental health issue and about a boy called Christopher who has autism. This was going to be a physical theatre piece which I think really suits me well and I found out I was going to be playing the character off Christopher which I think is a challenge for me and would consider me to research more how I am going to play it because I still have lines to talk and want to think of what it is like in his own world.

We watched a clip from the National Theatre to get an idea of it and then we would all know what the story was like and how everyone is dealing with Christopher.



We did some research learning how to do frantic assembly so we can put some of these lift in out piece I found this really help us and gave us an idea of how we were going to start. We decided that we wanted to record a lot of the lines so when we are in the train station we can move and not have to worry about saying the words this could create a more of a hassle so we can do bigger movements.

Within in the movement we used different techniques we put slow motions and having everyone change different roles of what they do in the train station so it looks more bussle we wanted to show the lifts like no one was there so Christopher was like he is in his own world.

With my character I have to act confused like I am in my own world it's my first time going into London so I had to show this by facial expressions and the actions I was doing. Within the lifts we had to think about how we were going to get the lift up smoothly and when the lift comes down that we can go into the next move everyone one had different actions to do so it looked liked he morning rush in London everyone trying to get to where they want to be.