Evaluation of Performance

Evaluation

I believe that our performance actually went really well overall despite it not going as good in our rehearsals, even though there were a few hiccups now and then we managed to pull through them without the audience having any idea of the problem e.g. we missed a line but the audience didn't seem to notice, the play flowed really well there was no dead time whatsoever, resulting in the audience not getting bored as something new was going on straight after another scene with the same level of energy and excitement.

Exercises and skills:
For our play The Wonderful World Of Dissocia researching dissociative disorders really helped me have an understanding of the play and what the main character (Lisa) is going through causing the play to be more realistic as we actually know what the characters are going through and we understood the concept of the play and how this world 'Dissocia' came to be.

An exercise that really helped me develop my character was when we envisioned them in front of us we had to decide what clothes they were wearing, how they done the hair or make up and how they spoke and walked.  this worked for me because i saw how different she was to me, also when i saw her it made me change the way i thought she acted while also helping me decide how she walked and spoke.

Another exercise and skill i used in my performance was when we had to decide and find our objective in the particular scenes this helped me because i knew what i wanted to happen in each scene, also by me knowing what i want to do it made my character also more realistic as i wasn't wondering around. For example in the beginning of the hot dog scene my objective was to stop Lisa from getting her hour and protecting her from 'The Black Dog King'


Performance Evaluation: 
In our final performance of The Wonderful World Of Dissocia everyone was committed to their characters and scenes which enhanced the crazy and weird atmosphere, in addition to that mostly everyone was dedicated to there lines and cues resulting in us being able to help each other if a line is missed or lost, this helped us hide the mistake. for example in the hot dog scene someone said the wrong line and i was able to say their correct line because i was confident in the scene. Furthermore people who played two characters or one character that had two different aspects to them found interesting ways to make them contrasting to each other while still being believable. 

The ensemble pieces went very well we all managed to come together in the end, everyone was contributing and dedicated which added to the quality of the play. Also it demonstrated that even though we weren't in the scene we were still acting due to always being on stage. In addition to that everyone really made the scene come to life and helped hint to the audience where certain scenes were taking place. For example in one of the scenes the ensemble made it clear that we were outside in a field by making bird and wind noises, i believe that without us the audience would of never guessed where we were.

For future performances we need to work on our voices and projection because at times we spoke really quite making it hard for the audience to understand us which can result in them being confused. Also in the beginning of ensemble pieces we were a bit hesitant as we weren't really confident on when we start and when we stop. Also Our airport scene was a bit overdone resulting it not really looking like an airport scene. In addition to that we were a bit slow on cues we need to pick them up as soon as the other line is finished.