Evaluation of 'The most horrific'
On the 10th of December 2014 Simon Stevens political theatre class performed there interpretation of 'The most horrific' we started the process by being given the play 2 weeks before the show and reading it getting a feel for what it's about and the style it in. At first when reading it i didn't completely understand it but after I did my research on the play and understood it and the issues I became really excited to perform it. I was given the role of A which was a fun character to play 'sassy' but also very ignorant.
The rehearsal process was productive and I feel everyone worked really hard the class was split into two a&b's and c&d's I was put into the group on a&b's were I came up with a productive way to divide lines. Getting into pairs and choosing a page or two with your partner I was with Romy we chose page 5-6 because the lines were snappy and there was a dark meaning behind them which meant we could give them more depth. Simon staged the piece so we then knew what we were doing once we had the main performance staged and rehearsed we then created small outer pieces to do with the issues being disgust in the play my group did force feeding and we created a strong scene that was to do with filtering the news and what we hear, which was very successful and we got strong positive feedback from it, I decided to add my own small part into the play there is a scene while boe it talking and he is talking about something very serious when i then interrupt him by saying 'ssshhhhh' i then ask all the a&b's if they want sushi this was a Gestus moment because it shows the characters mannerisms and there little care for serious topics and it relates to all the a&b's. I believe over all that my performance was successful because i took on everything simon said and performed it my strengths were that i was fully committed i felt that i kept my character on the appropriate number when necessary most of the time it was a seven but it changed to a 1 and 10 when we were asked too. My weaknesses where i felt i could of projected my voice better in order for the audience to hear me clearer but also for my fellow actors to know there cue e.g.. when i say 'its just...' billy then has to say 'Cheryl Cole' straight after and i don't feel i was loud enough billy had to see we had stopped talking so i should of spoken louder but when it got to the final show everyone worked really well was a team the positives where that we really took on all the direction and put it into the final show e.g. Keeping our voices down when the other group talks, also keeping our body language at 7,10,1 when appropriate the negatives where that a few people forgot there lines but it wasn't noticeable over all it was a successful performance and I really enjoyed the process.
