Evaluation on "An Inspector Calls".

We firstly focused on our line learning and once we got it under control Mr Harris gave us directions on how to act them out and where we had to stand when saying the lines. It was hard and there were times where we thought it wouldn’t work out as some of us were not putting much effort into the play and missed rehearsals and didn’t know their lines. But we all stayed together and helped each other with line learning and stage directions.

        As the dates of the play were getting closer and our time to rehears shorter we got all the props and staging ready, we all brought in parts of the props like table cloths and candles and port glasses etc. By the first performance we got everything ready and we were all very nervous, now it was just a matter of doing it. But as we were all very nervous the performance did not turn out the way we thought it would be, and we needed some prompting as we forgot our lines. By the end of the performance we all felt we could have done much better, our character work could have been more developed and when forgetting lines not make it so obvious to the audience and just improvise. But this was also all caused by us being nervous.

        But on the other hand we all learned from this first experience and once it was time for our second performance, we all believed we could do it, we stopped panicking and as Mr Harris said just enjoyed the play we had all worked so hard for, and now it was time for us to proof ourselves to everyone else so we went on stage and just did it. Once the play finished we got a lot of good feed back from the audience and we hardly needed any prompting. We all felt proud of ourselves as we not only showed everyone what we were capable of but we also showed it to ourselves, which I personally think is something very important to an actor.

        In conclusion I think that doing this play was a great experience which I did not only learn a lot from but I also got to find out how it is not only hard for the cast but also for the director as he/she puts the same amount of effort and time, if not more than the actors themselves. I enjoyed working with the other actors and learned that it is very important that as a small group we need to stay together and work as a team. And I personally would repeat such an experience.