Thursday 9th July

Final Performance Evaluation

Once we had started our class, everyone was sent down to the performance space were the whole year had a chance to run the piece through once more before we had performed the piece to our audience.

The run through went well. I feel that once we had our last run through the flow of the piece and the effort that everyone was putting in was put in as a collective so that the power and energy was equal throughout the whole piece. Many people from our other year didn’t understand all the parts to our piece of the story it followed. However many say that they found our piece amusing and that there were many characters in the piece which had quite comical parts that made sections funny.

We then only had a few minutes to spare until soon the performance started. It was very interesting to be able to see all the different paths each class took in order to present the motion of the story.

What went well?

·         The energy put in by the whole group as a collective

·         The colours within the costumes we brought in on the day

·         The use of physical theatre and intricate movements within the physical theatre

·         The monster being created with all three aspects of sound, movement and voice in order to make the animal seem as realistic as possible

Even better if

·         The piece had a clearer story line to follow

·         The whole class came together to make more movements as one (e.g. creating a sea ripple effect with our arms while dreams floated around)

·         Extended the piece a little longer

·         A bit more dialogue was added, although I enjoyed having our piece as mainly physical theatre I do still believe adding on small amount of more dialogue would make the piece more effective

Overall I am extremely proud of our piece and I am really happy that we chose to follow a main pathway of physical theatre as so many other groups mostly took on a performance pathway of a large amount of dialogue. Our director was able to help us realise how strong our piece was and that all it needed was for us to show that to the audience. When the effort of our class is put in by 110% you could feel the atmosphere of everyone without having to look. It helped us to continue that wave of energy even though we were already sweating by just emphasising on each part of our body structure for each movement precisely. I believe we reached our target audience in a positive way and that we chose the best way we could in order to tell this magical story to the children by making every word come to life.