Final Performance Evaluation

I think that our final performance in front of the audience was quite amazing and some people found that it was wonderful. However it was not perfect because there were some people who still were laughing during the play but it was not their fault. Even though it was hard for all of us to get into it and not to act like the actual characters in the scripts, but some kind transform into them and imagine the environment around us, we tried to produce the best piece of drama work ever.
Making the scripts “international” was not that hard to do. The fact that it was out of time and in the middle of nowhere was a good idea to use. Also the terms that we have been using at the beginning and the ending of the performance and different facts and laws of the children’s policy were educational and made the performance even more international.
Sound scapes helped us a lot and also the fact that the audience liked it and did not laugh at us pleased me. The problem is that there were some of the sound scape(s) that were pretty disturbing and funny (especially the barking dog) at some point…
Another thing that I liked about it was the group work. While we were writing the scripts we did not use the given time proficiently at all. Basically we finished producing them on the day they were due (there were many mistakes in them which made the dialogues sound stupid [they just did not make any sense]). By fixing them we achieved what we set out to do. But unfortunately we did not use them at all. The whole performance was completely improvised but the good thing is that we did not do any mistakes and made no long pauses at all. I would also like to take into account that while we were rehearsing 3-4 lessons before the final performance, we did not have anything at all. + We did not come after school to rehearse it (I am not sure about the other groups).
I think that everyone’s (including audience’s) facial expressions created tension and it made everyone (including the actors) feel sympathy for the poor, lonely children who are currently living on the streets.
Another thing that made this performance amazing was the previous lessons and different stuff that we worked on. The one that I find most useful one is the monologue because it was the one which taught us to feel free and calm in front of the audience and get into the performance. I also think that the Shelby’s and Margalit’s group found it very useful because most of their part of the performance consisted out of monologue which changed every time Shelby performed it. I think that she improvised it over and over again during the rehearsals and the final performance.
In addition I would like to thank Ms. Tickle for keeping us together, helping us, giving us useful ideas and having fun with us in drama class during this term. Unfortunately this is going to be my last drama course but there is a little chance that I am going to switch to the drama class next year because the Drama class is my second “Arts class” choice.