Evaluation of performance

On the night of the performance I think i performed a successful portrayal of Varya  as I incorporated all the Stanislavski skills I had learnt throughout the term and made sure I focused mainly on the naturalistic style of the play. Writing on my script, the objectives, units and questions helped me to fully engage with the character and create a life for her where she wasn't just in the scenes of the play, but a life outside aswell (the unbroken line), this made her become more real and resulted in a naturalustic character. I beleive I became more relaxed and in turn was able to listen and respond naturally to the other characters that where around me and conversing with me, giving me something real to feed of of leaving me with real and true emotions and responses. 

Things that I would change or work on if we where to perform the play again would be delivery of lines, confidence and aspects of staging. When performing the play many of the actors where not truly embodying their character and had not fully thought about their character choices which gave the sence of the actor just 'reading lines' and a rushed pace that was mainly because of time and nerves. If we where to spend more time on the script the characters would evoke a stronger confidence with lines and physicality's chosen, some of the actors may have also had more time to learn their lines more thoroughly (although I do beleive we where given a sufficient amount of time) as during the performance a few people forgot their lines and had to be prompted. I would also change the set slightly as we began with a mountain of items that make up the stage props such as chairs, coats, trays and table cloths piled on top of eachother and although I liked the idea and think it was very visually effective it wasn't very safe as during the opening the chairs collapsed and nearly injured me and could of injured others. The minimal set I think was effective and I think worked well with our play and the visual aspect of it. 

Overall I beleive that we performed a good show and successfully incorporated the Stamislavski approach to acting and character embodiment. We all as a company became closer during this term and worked well with eachother with help from team bonding excersizes and keenness of working with different people. As a whole I have thoroughly enjoyed this term and beleive that we have all worked hard in pulling of a naturalustic rendition of Anton Chekhovs The Cherry Orchard.