Week 32: Review

Woman Alone performance review

On the 10th of July, we performed our Woman Alone piece. We had an audience of our class and our teacher, which was about 15 people. 

Here is a video of our performance:

https://youtu.be/Ze19r75KGo4

Some of the good points about our piece:

1. Establishing the characters - I felt that we did this very well and we tried to make it as clear to the audience who was which trait and I know that throughout the performance I made a conscious effect to differentiate myself from the rest of the group in terms of my trait but then it was also hard to keep the idea that we were one person which was where the group simultaneous movements came from as that is what we used to re-establish the idea of us being the same Woman.
2. Makeup - I know that my group had researched and discussed what makeup we could have and all though I couldn't have face paint due to an allergy, we made sure that we found an alternative which was the amount of makeup that we had on and the black lipstick to connect us all.
3. Gaps in between lines- This was something that we originally found hard as we wanted to keep the atmosphere up and keep the audience engaged but sometimes this made us rush our lines which was the opposite of what we originally wanted it to do. During the performance, I feel that we tried to avoid this but there were a couple of times where the atmosphere slightly dropped but then we managed to pick it back up and carry on.

Some of the points that could be improved about our piece:

1. Reactions between each other - This is a point that was brought up a lot in rehearsal and I tried to make a conscious effort to make react to all of the other traits. For example, when Emily comes and stands next to me to say "And a grope for the groper" I tried to react to her as much as possible without taking any of the attention away from her. Also when the riser was on the floor and became like the mouthpiece, and we started pushing each other out of it, I also felt that that was one of the points were reactions were needed and so when I got pushed out I made it look like I was going to say something else but then Emily took over.
2. Staging and proxemics - Because we weren't able to use the performance space due to exams, this meant that we could only practice in a smaller space which meant that we couldn't use space for visual effect as much as we had planned. We had about an hour in the actual performance space and we tried to use it as much as possible but if we were to do it again I think we would have used the depth of the stage more to add more visual elements as well as the width of the stage.