Overall I think that the performance was good, but not as smooth and slick as we had previously rehearsed it. A few minor bits were missed and sometimes our timing with getting on stage was not very good.
Scene 1 (Hospital)
The movement of the scene flowed well, in terms of the fight sequence, but some of the dialogue was a bit off, for instance the lines that were said in the rehearsal process were altered slightly, not making the sentence make sense. But the fight sequence was slick and therefore worked really well to add tension between the characters of the parents, played by Bradley Williams and Yasmin Fellah.
Scene 2 (Trap)
In this scene it worked as we had planned in the rehearsal, although I felt like Alicia was slipping on the lift, I managed to maintain my character and therefore it wasn't noticeable. The only problem I felt about this scene was the fact my face was meant to be completely blank, but when we watched it back I just looked bored, if I was given the opportunity to redo this I would have widen my eye's more and stared out to the clock.
Scene 3 (Im the real Christina)
This scene was great in the way in which it was exactly the way we rehearsed it, the timing with our heads out of the curtain was good, and also the bit we had worked on with all being in sync was the best we had ever done it. Our only problems were that the audience found the curtain bit and the crawling funny, which was not our intention, and also two people turned round late when Dan's lift happened, but luckily we caught him. If we had to look at the scene again I probably would have had us choreograph what we were saying so that there were not any bits of dialogue that the audience would find funny, and also I would have had the others enter in a different way rather than crawling, maybe have them walk forward to there spot looking into the audience with facial expressions and body language that match the version of Christina they were playing.
Scene 4 (The Circle)
The circle was ok, the beginning was a bit delayed due to getting the blocks of from the scene before, and they dialogue wasn't projected as much as it could have been, but apart from that the mini monologues that everyone had to say were believable, unlike the rehearsals where we had problems with this.
Scene 5 (Obstacles)
The obstacle scene was my favourite, we were all in sync with one another, including the music, for me this was a great scene to build up tension in our performance and the green eerie lighting fitted perfectly with it.
Scene 6 (Bus Stop)
In my opinion this scenes maybe let down the others in our piece, as it was straight after the Obstacle scene where we had built a lot of tension, which then kind of fizzled out in this scene. Also on a personal criticism I think I overplayed my part, so it sounded more pantomime then was intended, and therefore my character wasn't as believable as it could have been.
Scene 7 (Am I Free?)
Am I free was the best scene to leave our audience, we used the repetition from each one of Christina's monologue's and put them into one, and then used the "I Am Free" line which was spelt out on the rest of the groups t-shirts. But what really got the audience was the plot twist of "Am I Free?" And I could tell this by their reaction at the end of the scene, which was just what we were looking for.
Audience's Views
When it came to our strength in voice we were 5/10's, 8/10's all sorts of different numbers and I think this is because of the nerves at the beginning got in the way and so the projection of the dialogue was a little off, but as it got through the performance you could tell in our voices that we were getting more compftable with the piece.
One of the questions on the sheet we gave the audience was "did any characters stand out to you?" And the majority of people said no, which was what we were going for, we wanted to show how difficult it is to find yourself in a contampry way, and so if we had one character stand out then instantly that would me that they have found themselves.
Audience's Comments:
Some of the audience had left comments and here is a few I have chosen to share with you.
"The atmosphere spoke for its self."
"Loneliness and curiosity in one."
"Offered many feelings towards Christina."
"It confused me in a good way."
"I'm curious to know who the real Christina is."
My views on the group and rehearsal process
In our group we did have some differences at the beginning, but we used these different ideas we had to create stronger scenes then they were on their own. And even at some points some of us felt that we were not getting our ideas across, so when this happened we split into two groups to make use of all these different ideas. We all contributed to every scene in some way.
The communication in our group was good, we were talking on Facebook discussing notes, also ideas and helping each other with blog entries when we were stuck.
The rehearsal process itself was slow at first but once we got through the mental block for ideas, it opened up a whole bunch of them and personally I like the scenes we had created even if some were stronger than others.
Conclusion
I believe that the performance had room for improvements, but the focus from the group was brilliant in and out of the devised piece, also the hard work put in by everyone did create something that was completely different from the stimulus but it still linked in some way.
I think that the aim "explores the notion of identity, isolation and freedom through the action of movement and to confront and challenge the perception of the "self."" was lived up to due to the audiences feedback.
And overall it was a great experience for me, as I found it helped me work well in a group, and also devise better, as I could not devise pieces very well before this.
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