Evaluation

Group Performance Evaluation:

I feel that our group performance went very well and this was mainly indicated by the audience’s reaction, feeling in the moment of the performance and that our timing was correct. However, there is potential for this piece to be developed and improved if we were to perform it again.

I feel our opening soundscape directed at our audience on our site’s balcony was effective as they felt visibly uncomfortable. When we began interacting with them we achieved our goal of unsettling the audience from how a person usually expects to watch a performance, which is without their personal space being breached. We did this to foreshadow the events happening in the two couples lives and to bring the audience into the unpredictable chaotic world of their relationships as well as to put them on edge.

Following this I took male audience members into the girls toliet. I felt our combination of lighting, sound, visual, smell and touch that we considered when devising were effective in provoking the audience's emotions as they had a strong emotional reaction to this in the surrounding. We were not simply doing this for the sake of it but to instead communicate our story and the stress, anxiety and attempted bravery of the two girls as they tried to come to terms with doubts, break ups and events of their relationships. In hindsight, although we turned taps on, streamed toliet paper across the floor and smeared soap on the mirror, I think we could have destructed the bathroom in a way similar to Seamus and Will as they had written messages all over their toilet walls, doors and cubicles before hand. However both of our performances were different so I don't think this had a negative effect as we were performing seperately at this point with differing individual content.

We accused our partner of cheating us with someone else and the tone of this changed when we accused that person of being in the audience. When uninvitedly entering people's personal space raising in volume to communiacte our anger and frustration, audience members had various reactions of surprise, embarassment and laughing. We were expecting the audience to stay on the landing around the toilets after we had taken them out of there but found that they moved back to where they began watching the performance, below the balcony. We managed to change this by inviting them back up in our role but I think if we were to do our performance again we would improve this by better audience navigation and tell them or use our body language to make them stay.

The physical theatre section within our performance was well recieved and rehearsed due to good timing making the lifts as smooth and continuous. We efficiently moved the audience members to the sides of the corridor to create enough space for us to perform in. I ignored them and changed my focus to my partner as my objective was to stay with Will and we wanted to show the intensity of the two couples relationships. Commiting to this moment meant that our piece ended effectively showing the break up of our partners as Will entered the lift to get away and I retreated to the toilets again as he re-entered to meet Ffion's character on the balcony. What we devised was simple but effective in telling our desired story. As we performed this with emotion we solidified the idea that we were now leaving one another. y and I feel the silence which it carried created an effective contrast to previously shouting and getting annoyed at one another.