End of November beginning of December, another module was given to our group and we were told that this performance would be done as a whole group performance and to perform it in high Barnet at The Bull Theatre. This sounded like a great idea at first but as usual didn’t go to plan because of the lack of concentration in the class and high opinions due to the big amount of strong characters in our class. The first couple of weeks we done some exercises and spoke about different topics on how we could bring this piece together, lots of ideas and suggestions were brought up and debates were made, finally we agreed on the devise piece about family and family life as we could all relate to that. Due to weeks wasted with people not turning up, coming in late and generally just everyone sitting around doing nothing and being de-motivated it came to the tutors knowledge that we could not participate as a whole group so eventually the class was split and we would no longer be able to perform at the bull theatre where this show was supposed to be happening at, so as a class we ruined our chance as we didn’t deserve to perform there for all the time wasted in the previous weeks.
The following week, Michael and Nick sat us down and read the new groups out which were split into two. I was in the group that was female orientated and I think they done it purposely to see how we’d work and get along. This turned out very well because after all the arguments and disagreements, we pulled together and gave a good devising piece.
Our first idea that we thought of and perused was about a funeral of a girl that we all went to school with. We all went our separate ways from school and lived different lives and just never really kept in contact but at the funeral it would also have become a reunion for al of us to re-unite as friends which really sounds like it was decent and had a good story line, but it didn’t and a week and a half before the date to show it and after weeks of practicing certain scenes, we all felt like it was not working and would be an embarrassment to show. So we changed it was quite risky seeing as the limited time we had left but it was a risk that paid off, because we all stepped up our game, everyone was throwing in ideas and thinking of what could happen next and everyone had their own individual story and in put in this performance which gave it that extra touch from all of us. Our show was titles lost because we each had lost either something someone or generally lost our self and came together and shared our stories with one another by show acts on what had happened and at the end united together in a group of cancelling and said one word that fully related to us at that point in time. It was an experience as every performance is but it turned out all good in the end because as usual our group work best when their under pressure therefore its last minute and great. Now awaiting the grades that are fully deserved for everyone.
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