Performances to children

Performance 1

Rehearsal
We started off the day by getting all of the equipment ready for a tech run in the morning. This meant we had to run through with the tech people the queues for things such as sounds and smoke effects. Also changes in lights and what type of lights we wanted such as washes or spotlights. This whole process consisted of about six hours and when we weren't in the tech room we were practising and running over lines. Also in this time we created some new features for our performance such as new characteristics. An example of this is me adding in the fact that my character who reads the story at the beginning of our segment was now a Mexican called 'Juan' because he is the one. After this finished we had a full run of the performance form the beginning to the end where afterwards we sat down with Rachel and went through what went well in the performance and what we could do to improve before the first actual show. Some examples of this is things like less generic instructions to the children when telling them to go to places in the room and find things. This also links into being aware of any potential danger hazards for the children such as lights, equipment and walking into objects in the dark. Some examples of stuff that we as the crew had to focus on were things like pre-setting our individual stories things at the start of each segment rather than at the beginning of the entire play. This also meant marking things out such as points to stand and place stuff.

After we had finished this we had about 20 minutes to have a break before our first performance started so in this time we ran some things just to be fully confident on them such as being more familiar  with the story that me and Maddie read at the beginning of our segment.

The Performance
Because it was the first performance it was open up to family and friends of the people involved in the production. Unfortunately, not many people showed up to this performance however there was enough people to interact with and give a full performance to which was in my opinion a good thing because it firstly gave us a good idea of how the kids will react to the show in a less intense way. This prepared us for the future performances because we knew how to deal with the kids and keep them under control.
The performance went well in my opinion, the whole cast got involved even in the parts they weren't in which upped the energy and this reflected on the performance because the audience saw that we were having fun and then became more relaxed into it and enjoyed themselves more.
I personally think i did well in this performance because it stayed in character the whole time and was enthusiastic.