The wolves Evaluation

The show has finally happened and I'm not going to lie but it is upsetting that it was my full proper last show with my final year at college but I am happy how well it turned out and the feed back which I had gotten of a few people who watched the show.

We had all decided to go for a Brecht style technique for the play which the projection and the card which we had used to make the projection look more real and stand out for what is going in the scene, these are also known as Placards. Each scene had went very smoothly and everyone knew where everything was (props) as we had had them on stage, in chests or on the sides of stage and we all knew when and where to grab them and come on from the correct side for their next same. The energy which everyone had put into this performance is high and strong and didn't disappear, no one came out of their character on set and off. The dances between so many scenes which had :

• Meg
• Jess
• Jay
• Lofty
• Chloe 
• Amy

was all in sync and no one was late on any movement, our facial expressions for being the wolves in these three pieces always stayed and didn't come out of it which made it more interesting to watch what movement and phrase was coming next and also the music which starts of the dance scenes didn't come straight on after a scene, we had a bit of time to get ready to go on stage on time and in order to do the dance like I had to take my boots off and so did lofty but we kept our main costume on which made it stand out as the girls wore black and me and Lofty was wearing white shirts which made it stand out making them know that we was the male wolves. 

the lighting was always on cue for when the scenes started and when they had to fade one side of the stage with some of us on and light up a tiny part of the stage which had Meg on when she had done her little solo for a scene hat me, Danielle and Sian was in and other scenes with the darkened but had enough light to see us to make that scene look more stronger to get the audiences attention to what and where it was going on.

The story made sense as we was working our way through the performance and that we didn't stop on our second run of the show it kept up to track with the students from Cronton who had been our audience as it happened, the narrator who was Amy was the one who was telling the story and what was happening and where it was taking place as well as everyone being helpful and being in the chorus saying so many lines and doing actions which made sense of what was being said.

The costumes which we had brought in looked a tiny bit like what people would have worn in 1832 and for some characters we had to improvise a bit and mix and match little bits to see if we could make the character look more like they are from 1832 then modern day, we went for a Victorian look and what i mean by that is that the dress style which Danielle (bonnie) and Sian (Sylvia) had to wear long old styled dresses which had pattens around it a frilly bits and as we looked at some of the pictures from 1832 it was a similar look and style of what they had worn back then so it became our advantage to using them dresses.

We had a lot of physical theatre in the performance and mime which most i was using for my scenes because in my first entrance of my first scene i have a bow and have to shoot a wolf but the dangers of using a bow and a fake arrow is missing and the audience will loose the concentration so i had mimed it which made the moment of my entrance look like WOW in my eyes. the physical theatre moments was the small fight scenes which was choreographed by the people who was in that scene as well the wolves and the wolves dance, when i say wolves i mean how the beginning started with no noise or music, and the movement which was happening and forming into a triangle as choreographed and everyone's body language for being the wolves was strong, we had always stayed in sync with the breathing we had done together on stage and how to act when the wolves was on stage.

All together I liked how both days of the show went extremely well and It made me become closer with everyone but as this was my last full show before I leave but I am glad that the experience of how well the show had gone has made me become more ready for what gets thrown to me when I go to university, and I have learnt a lot more about how to use techniques which could make the performance look more fun or amazing or just plain better. I like how the show had been finished with a big massive bang and I loved being the character Simon, he was the hero I played.