Evaluation

We've polished it all up, and did two run throughs. One for ourselves, and the dress rehearsal for our fellow students. We have added in a bit with a few of us saying I love you in different languages, or in my case sign language. We have also decided it would be effective to use tape and put it on our mouths when doing the physical theatre. The dance cards have been made and look lovely. They will be hung on a line for the audience to see whilst Alice is saying her bit about dance cards.  We also sorted out a lovely ending, after we do the sign language and everyone has joined in, we try to speak through the tape, making the sound muffled. I then rip the tape off and say tell me how you feel. Rachel rips hers off and says I don't know how. We then go into a final recital of our poem lines, Sarah has put us in an order. At the end, we do the bit where we try and talk but can't, and Gavin finally bursts out with 'I love you.' Then other people said it, and then finally we all said I love you together and the lights went out. I think it was a really moving ending, because it was built up throughout the piece, and finally we managed to say it.

I feel the performances went well. I was expecting there to be much less laughter and engagement from the audience in the evening show as our fellow students would understand what we were trying to do. I was right, but the difference wasn't as great as I was expecting. In fact the audience seemed to be quite moved and focused. This is a sign that the piece was successful. I really enjoyed performing in it. After watching Will's group I did worry that ours wasn't experimental enough, but it really was. Experimental can be anything. I felt so moved by it that I cried during the physical theatre piece, because I got so into it. I think it could have been neater in places, but in the end it was all really good.

Lesson 6

Today we put the whole performance together. We begin with the promenade piece, Harrison and James take the audience around past the people behind the glass, to watch the locker sequence, then up the stairs and down into the other hallway where they are split into male and female. Amaya then explains the speed dating process, the boys are taken through one entrance to meet the girls who will be sat at desks on one side of the curtain.Then the girls are taken to the other entrance where the boys are sat in the same way. The speed dating happens and we then go into the game show. After the game show I think we go into the waltz and then we will do the physical theatre, then the sign language then we still need to think of a nice way to end it. Not quite sure how yet. I think the show will be a success we just need to polish it up next tuesday.

Sign Language

I've been set the task of learning how to say 'Tell me how you feel' and 'I don't know how' in sign language.
To say tell me how you feel is easy:

'Tell me' involves pointing from your lips to your chest.
'How' is starting with your palms facing downwards and turning them out to face upwards.
'You' is a simple point.
'Feel' is running your middle finger up your torso.

'I don't know how'

'I' point at chest
'don't' is flicking your thumb from under your chin.
'know' is tapping your forehead with your fingers.
'How' as above.

Lesson Five

This week we created a game show. The game show is called She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not. It's about analysing text messages. Gavin is the game show's host because he has a great voice. Jordan, Alex and Phoebe are the contestants and Gus, Emily, Holly and Laure are the scientists. Nina is playing the guitair and myself, Milly, Catherine, Jesse and Tiffany wrote and sang the theme song.

She loves me,
She loves me not,
I can't quite tell from these texts that I've got.
She's driving me crazy,
I check my phone daily.
Thought I'd come on the show,
Just to give it a shot.
And I think she's really really hot.

This works as it fits in with the theme of not knowing what to say and how to say it.

Zach is playing the specimen and we have decided to name him Alfred Prufock so that the poem and character is a constant underlying theme. This will give the audience something to connect the scenes to.

We have also all been given a line in the poem, mine is:

'And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And a hundred visions and revisions.'

This is quite a tongue twister actually, but I think it's really beautiful and easy to connect with. We have all made up a little tiny scene to go with the line on our own. Mine involves just moving my arms and clasping my hands, but some people are using props. We will be positined up the stairs and along the corridor and the audience will walk past us after the locker scene.This will immerse them in the poem straight away.