Old Times- evaluation

 Our student made show old times by Molly Taylor. 

Yesterday we performed old times. It was really nerve racking because my cast knew we had something to prove. The show went really well, the transitions between older and younger seems were pretty seamless, they just faded into each other. The youngest really kept their energy high which was so important to stop the show from becoming flat. One of my biggest worries was that after a younger scene we would accidentally slip back into the wrong scene which would mess it up for everyone but thankfully we rehearsed it enough to know what was coming next most of the time. There was a part where a full scene was cut because someone forgot a line that led onto another piece, but I just followed it on from where they left it off so it carried on seamlessly and nobody in the audience even realised there was any scenes missing. I was focused on making sure that my character was always reacting but it was hard keeping a balance between emotional and entitled, I didn’t want to have just one shade of personality. I think I did a good job of reacting, I tried to keep it natural but still enough to be seen. However, I think my body language could have been better, I kept I stayed in the same positions for a while so that’s something I’ll think about in the future. It was stressful how some people were still on script yesterday however if there was a part they didn’t know, they just changed the line until they did know it so it wasn’t noticeable to anyone who hadn’t read the script. 

I think my costume really helped me describe the character. I wore leather jeans with a leopard print top and a black cardigan with gold slip on shoes and a pearl necklace. And Adam wore jeans and a jumper with his pearl necklace. We wanted to show that Vee is extra and dramatic. We wore the pearls to show wealth and to show continuity between me and Adam.

Creating this with only students was a challenge, however, we’re all very professional and passionate about it so we managed to create something se could all be proud of. 

Notes from audience- 

Somebody told me that me and Emie really stood out as-well as Alayah and Sophia.

Morgan(director) said he was really proud and that it was everything he asked for. 

Kelly (teacher) - beyond proud to have a team of such dedicated actors. You can really see the effort put in.