Task 5 20/10/21 & 21/10/21 - Show Days The Witches

      20/10/21

Task 5

On the 20th, tension was high, we were all dressed in costume and ready to start perfecting our scenes for the show that would happen later that day. It was full of nervous but excitement and I know that myself and practically everyone else was excited and anxious about it as well. We had to sort out pyrotechnics, placement in scenes to get the lighting just right, and we only had a couple of hours to do it. We all had our own make-up call times which was new. I wasn't expecting it but when mine came, at 3pm, I took it as an opportunity to cool off from the anxiety of it all and talked to the girl doing my makeup, I found out her name was Holly and we introduced each other, then she begun doing my make-up. It was ordinary stage make-up, like foundation, toner, I opted out of having eye-liner because my eyes start watering and I didn't want it to ruin everything she had done. We also got lipstick on which I found out later that most of the guys had rubbed it off with their hands but I just kept it on because I didn't find it uncomfortable, It's just something to complete the part I had to play. The hours after-wards felt like minutes, they passed incredibly quickly. Me and Henry, the person I had to act with in my scene, had to quickly sort out a part in our scene where he pulls down my trousers to reveal "funny underwear" I couldn't find anything that I'd describe as funny underwear on websites, so I used black shorts that could pass as loose underwear, and we started to rehearse our scene. We did it all to the best of our ability, and ended up with the scene we had to do, we started talking about how to do it without him pulling down my trousers and my shorts, to make sure he didn't, I pulled the trousers above the shorts at my waist so that it was easier to grab onto. And then we went through it fully, and it went smoothly, we were ready with our scene, we just had to get through the day. Some hours later, it was show-time. After a last minute bow rehearsal, we were all ready backstage, sat down or stood up, waiting for our Queue Lines. I didn't have to come on stage until towards the end of act 2. I hated the silence of it all, course it wasn't actually silent but it felt it, the tension in the air, the anxiety I felt in my stomach while waiting for my queue line. I was extremely anxious while waiting, but I just kept myself in reality, listening to what's going on in stage and in the audience. Then I got my Queue Line, me and Henry strolled the trolley onto stage and we started performing our lines, reacting to the audience. I was happy and excited, I had been consumed by the role I had to play while on stage, I didn't even think about anything else or my lines, they just came to me naturally, I didn't notice the audience, I just focused on what was in front of me and Henry's reactions, and I believe it went smoothly without any mess-ups. After we were done though, reality smacked me in the fact and I was hit with my anxiety, I was craving water as my throat was dry, and as I was breathing hard, I dry heaved once, but managed to drink water and not long after my anxiety dispersed. Me and Henry went on for bows, we missed our queue and ended up having our "own" bow by ourselves, when we were supposed to be with the waiting staff, but we managed to fit in after the witches, before the main characters went on. It wasn't supposed to happen but after revealing that to my family, who came to see it, they didn't notice that it wasn't supposed to happen and thought it fitted in. Before I left college, I hung out with one of my friends who played as the head waiter, he introduced me to one of his friends and we all talked about the show and what happened etc. On my way out, I was stopped by an old lady who said she found me really funny, which I didn't expect at all because I had no idea who this person was but I found it extremely nice, I was in an even better mood after this stranger had liked my acting and found it amusing. I was on a high of literal happiness after the show, including a strange new "love" for the entire cast, we were all proud of each other and we developed into more than a class, but a small family, or at least that's how I like to picture things. When I regrouped with my family, they were proud of me and I asked for feedback. They said they enjoyed my part in the show and that I was also hilarious, but they also found Bruno, Harley, hilarious as well. They also believed that the grand high witch, Magen, did really well and was convincing in her performance. However they believed that the main character's, boy, performance was unconvincing and in their words "He couldn't act" I believe differently but I hope that the rest of the audience didn't feel the same. 

21/10/21

The second of the show was much less stressful and much less anxiety inducing, It was still fun either way though and I enjoyed it. I did enjoy it slightly less but that's because I had more fun as the Chef than as a customer in the same scene but in the background. The same thing essentially happened, we all rehearsed, made it as close to perfection as we possibly could, individually had our make-up calls and it came to mine yet again. I didn't think I had to do any make-up because I was on stage for only a couple of minutes, up until the witches start screaming. But I was called up regardless, Holly did my make-up again, and so It was the same as last time, stage make-up, I could've opted out of the lipstick this time because most of the lads rubbed it off, but I said I didn't mind, so she put it on regardless. So it came to waiting for my queue line come show time. I once again had to wait for act one to end and act two to start before I went on stage. I didn't bother inviting family to see cast two because we didn't have the money for the tickets and I was only sitting down at a dinner table pretending to talk to Henry regardless. I didn't mind, but even so, after the show was finished, even though I didn't do much that time, we all still left on a high of good moods and vibes.