Evaluate the performances of Bouncers and Shakers with reference to the performance skills required and those that Godber as a playwright demands from his performers. Your essay should include reference to your own work and the work of others.

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Evaluate the performances of Bouncers and Shakers with reference to the performance skills required and those that Godber as a playwright demands from his performers. Your essay should include reference to your own work and the work of others.

John Godber writes the plays of Bouncers and Shakers. They are both similar to one another because they both have humour and a series of character transformations.

I thought that all of the performances where very well done and where the best I had seen anyone do. I think all the groups used different styles, such as in Mac’s group at the start they used musical mime and at the end they used a good piece of mime in their fight scene. A couple of the groups used chorus work in their pieces, like in Deria’s group they used that style in the part when they sang happy birthday, it was funny because they sang “happy birthday” at the same time but sang to different names like “Zoë, Clare”. Andrew’s group used mime in their fight scene as well but they also had a monologue too, in which thought was well done, but Andrew could have been a bit more still he moved about too much during his monologue. Two groups had one or more actors missing one of them was Nicola’s group, they had three actors missing but it was still good, Dean was at his best I thought but he should have had a bigger part seeing as he was only in it for a couple of minutes, the group used good chorus work saying “Supermarket!!” they also had a nice dance routine. I thought my own group was good even though we had one actor missing, we did good chorus work but our dance routine wasn’t that good because we only rehearsed for a few minutes.

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All the performances were very good but they all had slight faults. Like in Andrew’s group they were going very well and very smoothly but then they would have pauses where they had forgotten their lines or cue. Andrew’s group also put their backs to the audience a few times but their transformations where good, Calvin brought a lot of comedy into their performance which was good because it brought the viewer’s attention back from their mistakes. I thought Mac’s group had a good start that grabbed the viewer’s attention and all the way through I was interested to ...

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