Evaluation of performance

Overall I thought our performance very well as everyone recovered from any mistakes easily and we managed to have an attentive audience who were fully engaged through out.

Sound and lighting
I lighting went really well as it changed between each scene as it should of done and it suited the mood of the scene correctly. For example when Christopher was reading his letters the lighting was a lot darker so that people could shine there torches on him so it gave of the right effect. Even though our black out may have been been pitch black and unable to see through at all we managed to work well with the lighting makes sure we were in the correct space where the light had been placed. Our sound was also spot on as it was played at the right time and gave of the right effect. If the music hadn't played at the right time we may have had to improvise a lot as some of our movement bass routines relied on the music. However it didn't come to this helped with our performance a lot.

The audience
The audience we had come to watch were very engaged by the performance and saw the funny side to all the jokes which really boosts your confidence on stage. through out the performance they all had a look of interest on there faces and seemed drawn in by the story line and how it was presented to them by us. There was also comment from the audience after how they thought it was a really thought out piece in the time we put all the different pieces together.

Remembering lines and ques
I was very impressed with how much everyone remembered there lines and if there was a mistake it was good how well every one covered up for each other. This was clear from the performance as it run smoothly for the audience even though we know there was mistakes. Every one had a clear outline of what they had to say even if they didn't use the exact words which really helped when someone had a difficulty with there lines as we were able to pick up from what they said. Our ques for certain movements where mostly good apart from one part when everyone went into Swindon station rather then the round about so the people who knew what to do started to so the round about until the others noticed but it want noticeable to the audience as it just looked like normal Christopher mind all busy and confusing.

How to improve next time
If we did this again as I think we would start by polishing sooner and using props and costume for more runs. This is because the order of the play wasn't as smooth as it should have been and it could have run better as we forgot a small scene however it did still make sense. This is also because we only used the props once before the show and some people weren't to sure when to take certain props on and of and forgot to use some of them which made them pointless. I also think we should have made sure everyone had equal costumes when changing between characters because in the train station scene there was people with more costume on then other wearing the basics. I also think we could have added more movement and lifts to it if we had more time for example in the London train station scene as we had a bit of music that was longer then our movement.