Remote connections show day in York

 Task 5 & 6

We played our connections show in York yesterday. I was really nervous as before it started we had to watch a youth group do the same show and even though it was completely different and they were younger than us, I couldn't help but panic at the thought of what if they're better. I hadn't really thought about it the entire day until at that point and I could feel my heart beat out of my chest. I was really anxious, even during their entire performance and during ours. I kept nit picking everything I did I wrong. I realised my spacing was wrong so I tried fixing it on stage, I noticed I wasn't being as loud so I made myself louder, I wanted to be my character, I had to be my character or in my mind, I would've failed as the character and let down the team. It was only when I was behind the curtain I kept thinking about the page number we were on, ticking down each number until it eventually got to mine and then waited for a queue. I remember in the scene where I tell the gang to leave me and skin, Aaron, the person playing a park ranger picking up trash, he didn't go off stage quickly enough, so when I went behind the homeless man, Harley, to make him get up Aaron was still there. But I knew I'd have to improvise, so instead of having awkward silence, I did what I believed blister would do, and I shoved him out the way before getting Harley off the bench. The scene went great and even if I botched a few lines, I made sure to keep it going regardless by fixing said line. I also realised I spoke to the floor during our "I" lines, where we say narration but from our characters point of view, my line was "I walk two steps behind, uncertain of this change of sides" but said the final bit to the floor and it bothered me when I realised it. But all in all I think it went alright, I enjoyed being in the show from start to finish, I was thankful I was given a main part and I'm so happy we were able to perform somewhere different from college. 

We left college at a little after half 8 in the morning, and we spent the day doing various things, we went to the centre to get food after doing a 3 hour tech run in the theatre, then came back and did some workshop with people from the theatre. I didn't really enjoy it, but there were some games that I found fun, I just wasn't fond of the other games. After which we had an hour long break before watching the youth theatres show. I enjoyed it, it was vastly different and I did not expect it to be physical theatre. I didn't like how they were all on stage all the time, and I noticed that it took them a while to get into character as they walked on stage if they went behind the curtain in some scenes. As well as their backs being towards the audience for a lot of it, but it's all just minor stuff, they did exceptionally well for how old they were and I hope they're all proud of themselves. After watching it, it was time to perform, we had to get a stick for the scene at the end because I broke the last one by accident in a rehearsal, as I throw the stick to the floor but it snapped part of it off, so that was uncomforting to know I caused an inconvenience. After the show, we cleaned our equipment and props up, put them away on the bus and unfortunately I couldn't stay long to talk with my friends and talk about the show as my dad needed us to leave pretty much immediately, but I had the time to ask my teacher, Kelly, if I could have some feedback, she said I was fantastic and that I did really well. While she may have said that I still don't believe it but I know what I did wrong, and I will aim to fix it, in future shows, where we will perform blood brothers!