Black and White - Evaluation

The piece we were performing was a contemporary adaptation of Orestes called Blood and Light by Helen Edumdson but with this we also added in parts of the original text from the parts of the Chorus to add to the adaptation this gave us a chance to work as a group on scenes.  My lines went well during the performance and at the end i felt i knew them well but still had that sense of fear that i would forget them, at one point i forgot a line but thankfully Bradley who i was playing against moved straight on to the next part and we sailed smoothly from there, everyone else did well with their lines as well. Scene transitions, entrances and exits were quite sketchy the week of the performance but on the day of the first performance we nailed it and it went perfectly. The pace of the scenes went according with the atmosphere and lines and i felt it went just how it needed too because we all relied on instinct and it ended up working very well, it felt right. The timing went okay but on the second performance the sound cut out and we had a lot of our timing judged on it, but still everyone went straight with it and made it work. The style of the piece was contemporary because we had used the contemporary version of the play and kept it in an almost timeless setting. The subject matter discussed was that of revenge and loyalty, the play shows the relationships between families and how they interact and how much they would actually give for their family. Characterisation wasn't really simple for me as i felt i was becoming the character more gradually than finding her straight away, i felt the part when the crown was put on my head and i was in costume because i became Electra i didn't just characterise her. Vocal deliver was good overall but needed to be louder and much more projection was needed for the audience to hear it clearly, but it was well done closer to the audience but lost closer to the back of the stage. Gesture was used quite well with everyone as it was important with the silent themes of the play to come across in the more subtle parts of the play. As an Ensemble the team worked quite badly together through rehearsals as it felt like it would never come together but when it came to performing things went better than just good everyone became a team because there was no pressure to keep on going and to keep trying to figure out what we were going to do and we could just do it. The focus was great as well when the house lights went down and the stage lights came up there was this sudden focus that everyone seemed to be connected to and it worked brilliantly. The work was done to the best of everyone's ability, the energy and dynamics of the piece came together and it all came together to create a brilliant show.