Last Night's Performance

Last night was our first REAL performance in front of an audience of our parents. It was a nerve-wracking time for the entire cast as we saw our parents file in, take their seats and become ‘the house’ (audience).

As the performance went on, there were a few people who forgot their lines however they made it work with the scene, trying not to fail the scene. The whole cast supported each other and attempted to help those people out.

On the sidelines (offstage), we all had to watch the scenes while acting like our characters in semi-still positions, making sure that we weren’t drawing attention away from what was happening on stage; we tried to do minimum movement as possible, in the wings, while we weren’t performing.

In the lunch scene that I was in, it turned out very good and, even though I mixed up one of my lines, Iris and Yasmin were there to make sure that it was hardly noticeable. I think that the scene had obvious friendship-chemistry between us, which made the scene look even more believable! We used props, in the scene, to symbolize the food that they would’ve been eating at lunch however the majority of us didn’t eat or open anything so that it didn’t disrupt the scene or make it harder to act around; we just loosely fiddled with the items, as if we were about to eat them.

In the final scene, that I was also in, it rounded off the play in a brilliant way by showing why William was in a mental hospital and the group scream at the end really completed the play! I was very happy that I was able to get tears to come out of my eyes for the scene and that everyone was able to show brilliant emotion.

Overall, I think that Punk Rock was a very successful play for a first proper performance together.