Evaluation of political theatre plays 8th December 2015. And process.

Our process began on our first lesson when we explored practitioner brect. This allowed us to transition from naturalism to epic theatre.  We looked at techniques such as the v effect and narration; this was useful as we could start thinking early about ways to portray ideas. We then began to develop our play.  Rehearsals wee I my opinion unfocused as people were not paying attention. This made it difficult to devise scenes in groups and as well made the piece harder to pull together.

Making the piece from scratch was very difficult. Everybody had different ideas and ways to show things. There were some members of the class that didn't let others get a word in and it became frustrating to put ideas out. The week before the performance and everything still felt much disorganised. Nobody had learnt there lines and nobody knew the running order or their cues.  This made things more difficult.

On the day of the performance we began with a warm up to connect everybody and focus everybody. I felt that this was extremely helpful and people became more focused. I however needed to leave at 10 as i had an orthodontist appointment. This was difficult for me as it meant I had less rehearsal time however it was something unavoidable. I came back at around 12 and joined back into the group. In the rehearsal I spent my time focusing n the running order. Were props were on stage and lines. This was useful as it meant when it came to the performance I knew when i was on and my cues. 

The piece started to come together after several rehearsals and then it was time for or performance. I felt that everyone had a better energy towards the play and was ready to perform well. We all sat neatly and the game show host were energetic and lively as the audience came in. this set the mood for audience and involved them straight away so they were aware this isn’t a naturalistic play. The iudulge scenes ran well.  I felt like we could have made it more obvious at the start that it was an episodic play however I think the audience eventually understood.  The rice scenes aso ran well. I feel like incorporating lots of different ideas threw the audience slightly. We could have focused in more onto one topic rather than doing everything but in general I was a good focus on everything and we gave everything an equal standpoint and therefore challenged lots of views in the audicene and I feel like even among ourselves we became more educated during the process which s whati feel theatre should encourage and we achieved the aims of making it a political piece.

I felt that my performance was ok in the performance but could have been better. I feel as though I could have developed the character further and done some more characterisation to further the message towards the audience. I remembered m lines along with the other people in my group however I felt our transition comin of stage after laughing was weak.

My lust scene was good however I felt like we were too far forward on the stage so the ‘bosses’  couldn't see the details and if I were to d it again I would consider more the staging before devising the piece.