FINALLY Performance Day!

This week we performed our piece Bloody mIST in front of our Theatre teacher. We performed it on Wednesday for the first hour, whereas the second hour we had we got feedback back from our teacher. We have a lot to improve but overall, he thought it was really good and he had enjoyed watching it.

As usual, I was so happy when we had our performance day. I was getting really excited and I couldn't sit still, I just wanted to get up there and give the best that I could! (which I didn't though)

First of all, personally, I wasn't really happy how our performance went. Of course, overall I thought it went well,yes. But the small details are the ones that make it more perfect and better, and Theatre is a very important subject for me and I want to do as good as possibly in it. This is why I take feedback very seriously and I go over it after each lesson every single time; there hasn't been one time where I skipped going through feedback given to me in Theatre.
Since we work as an ensemble, we all need to do the best as we can to make it work and not think "It's fine, someone else will do it, I'm just in a group after all". I understand if for some of you guys don't think Theatre is the most important and amazing subject for you in school, fine, I'm willing to accept that,(even though it took some time) but what I can't stand is the fact that you're not supposed to make any efforts or just wait till someone else will do the work for you. I am just saying this for the future, I think we are great as an ensemble, but maybe we could try a little bit harder to work together and better to improve even more.

One main feedback Mr F. gave to me and I knew he was going to, was that I wasn't starring the audience in the eye. I have no problem getting on stage to perform, I love it,I don't get nervous breakdowns or any thing like that. But perhaps it would be because i never stare at the audience. I don't ignore them, of course not, sometimes I've even waved at them, but the fact that you have to look at someone in the eye is quite hard for me, I have no idea why! I used to find it impolite to just stare at someone,not when the person is talking the me of course,but just in general. Now I've got over that but I haven't exactly done many performances where i look into the audiences members eye. If it's a friend of mine, I would be terrified that she or he would burst into laughing or just smile at me which would make me lose my concentration. During the years while I have worked that fear away and now I do not freak out if a look into a friends eye during a performance. And why is that? Well, because I use Stanislavskis technique. I use the fourth wall to protect my self from the audience and I stare at this little dot far away from the audience. This might sound pretty stupid, but an audience can be pretty scary sometimes if you look at them in the eyes! And I have been hiding my self behind the fourth wall in so many performances but in those performances, it was okay because we applied Stanislavskis system in them.
Next week, I will have to work on that so hard to get it perfect. Challenge accepted!

We've started to plan the decoration for the black board in front of our classroom. We will show everyone what we do in IB Theatre and they will be able to see our amazing work we've done so far, which I am really proud of. We will continue this next week as well, I am really excited about it! (as usual)