Its time...

Wow, what a week, we finally preformed the talent show.  What started off as a feeble idea over a month  ago has finally come to fruition. It really taught me a lot about organising events, like including breaks so that the actors don't have to preform 3 times back to back. We were all so tried by the end of the performance, and I had to walk home after all that...
What really pissed me off though was the number of people who dropped out at the last minute, they were informed of the date way ahead of time and yet still couldn't make it. Grrrrr, it doesn't cause them any issues but it caused us plenty. If they had just told us a week in advance it would have been much easier. There was also some lucky incidents, Hero, who hadn't attended any of the meetings, sent us a really good stop motion video. We ended up showing it in the reception area. It overall was really successful, raising over seven hundred euros! We really should have started the administrative roles much sooner though and communicated more. We were frantic communicating on the night before in order to finish the organisation of the tickets and who was going where. This really should have been done a few days before the show but we were only just finishing it in our few waning hour before the show.
The performance itself went pretty well, there was a sketchy moment where I was caught on a chair, but Richard covered for me, so it all worked out. It also seemed like doing the actual performance caused stuff to break all over the place, Maria accidentally broke her whip (which is a shame, it was rather fancy), and the push broom snapped in half when I tried to use it (really cleanly) but thank goodness for duct tape. Unlike the Doll's house performance, I really wasn't nervous for this one. I don't know if it was because we had practised it so many times (but kept changing it) or more likely, because it came from us and our ideas. Our character's were us and by extension we were able to do whatever will still staying in form. It was much less pressure then Stan's system where it was black and white in the context of characters. It was really nerve racking not knowing how the rest of the talent show was going, even now I still don't know any details. While it was successful, we are so getting everything prepared three days ahead of time and make that we communicate with people, we ran into the issue of the actors not know what they were supposed to do which caused issues during the registration and preparation.