Thursday 28th April – Day of performance

During this lesson we were told that we would be performing our play to the year 11’s at 11:30 so we were given about an hour or so to make sure everything in our scenes was straightened up (this time with the use of all our multimedia). By having the year 11’s watch our play, it meant that we were able to have a rough idea of what our actual audience would be like later on in the day and how we would have to make our movement around them during the performance.

Once it hit 11:30 we were sent to our performance spaces and after the year 11’s arrived, we began our first run through with an audience. Overlooking our first run through, I believe that the movement of the promenade moved very swiftly. In terms of any difficulties within the play, in some scenes e.g. (for the second chorus) some of us found it hard to make our way through the audience as they didn’t understand where they themselves were supposed to stand. At the moment, we weren’t sure on how to indicate that to the audience while still staying in character and not verbally telling them to move.  We eventually managed to guide them to the corners of the room with our hands guiding them back and also by standing in our places so that they knew that was where the chorus was being performed. 

Overall the performance was performed quite smoothly in the run through and these misunderstandings enabled us to keep in mind and improve for the actual live performance later on in the day. I believe it was really valuable to be able to perform to the older year first so that later on, we would know what to improve as well as what to expect.