The beginning of the performance started really slow because everyone was taking ages to move along and we couldn’t start until all the actors were on stage. But, once we got started it went really well. No-one forgot their lines that I noticed of, and everyone stayed in role. Laura Sell made one mistake but me and Samantha came on and took over and covered up. No-one noticed so it didn’t really matter. When it came to my soliloquy I just improvised some of it because with all the nerves I had to sustain my role so I just said what I remembered and added to it. I think that when me, Emilia and Samantha were the presenters we were really energetic and communicated to the audience really well. I think that when we did the make-up scene we should have put red lipstick on our face instead of concealer because the children would have been able to see it more clearly and they might have found it more amusing. There was a little bit of hotseating at the end when Miss. Rowan came onto the scene and told the strangers to step out. The strangers then talked to the little children and we had to teach them to say, “Never, ever talk to strangers.” We repeated this until the whole audience was joining in. This taught the children a valuable lesson as well as making them feel special because we are involving them in our performance.
I think that our audience was brilliant! The children came in very well behaved in silence then sat down where they were supposed to. They were all staring at us because we were so much older then them. When Miss. Rowan told the children what year we were in at school they all gasped. I was so surprised at how well the audience reacted to everything that we said. I was really worried at first of how small the space was. I was expecting a larger space but it was just a hall. There was no where for us to get changed, we just pout our things behind a bench and got dressed in the hall. They joined in with our song and every time the strangers started to talk to them they shouted no, and we didn’t even tell them to. They seemed really interested and laughed at me when I fell over. They took in everything we said and concentrated so well fro such a young age. At the end of the performance the head teacher, Mr. Howsen, said that, “As well as being a very entertaining, it sent out a very important message.” Some of the children on the way out said, “thank you”, “bye” and one little boy said “have a nice make-up.” When the children were leaving the hall some of them were still saying, “Never ever talk to strangers.” Miss. Rowan said that she was “really proud of us” and that we done an “excellent job.”
During this experience I have learnt how to create a T.I.E Drama performance for different target audiences. I have also learnt that you can make a performance fun and excitable as well as sending out the message you want. At first it was hard for me to sustain my role the whole way through a performance but after more and more practice I finally learnt how to. If I could do another play I would do a comedy and I would like the target audience to be younger then me because I find it more enjoyable and they react more because you are loud. I think that all the children learnt a valuable lesson in our performance and that now they all know that talking to strangers is a bad thing and I hope that they all remember that no matter what age you are you must never ever talk to strangers. I have got evidence to prove this because, when we hot seated the audience and got the strangers to talk tot hem they said no and refused to talk to them. Plus when we sang our song they joined in the second time round with the words and actions. I found this topic a very valuable lesson for me and the audience and I thought that our teacher gave us really good subjects and I learnt from it all.
At the end of the performance Mr. Howsen thanked us by giving us refreshments. We each had a drink and a chocolate bar each. Also what I thought was really nice and to show that he was really interested was that all the teachers sat around the edge of the hall, but the head teacher sat on the floor with the children. In conclusion I think that all the teachers and children enjoyed our performance and I hope that they have learnt something and remember everything that we have said.
