Performance 1 Evaluation

Performance evaluation 1. The first performance was to our year group, this was good as they understood many of the jokes and understood many of the references. Although it also made them think, as many of them came up to me afterwards questioning the play and wondering if we gone too far. People definitely thought ours was the most offensive out of all three of the performances, which I believe Jack would think is quite an achievement! People that I spoke too often said they thought ours was the best, and I believe the reason for this is that we had lots of laughs, lots of emotion and we also managed to go a lot further than any other groups, thanks to Jack. When the audience first came in it was nice to play to lots of people who you know and can have jokes with. I think that play was the best we ever did it, we got lots of laughs, but it also had a real depth of emotion to it. I think the scene changes were efficient, perhaps not flowing, but efficient and I agree with Jack, the song at the end was utterly abysmal! The audience of our peers, were a very active audience that became very involved in it, and reacted in the way that I believe Brecht would want them to react, having said that perhaps some of them were not offended enough! Just before this show, we decided that me and Eva would escort Jackie off after the three black men started shouting at her. This works because me and Eva were supposed to be discriminative and this was an effective characterisation for us. We also ended up taking Ben onstage to tie him up with Kai, Michael and Ben and just for an extra measure I shouted 'We've had too many interruptions!' and 'Tie zem up!' When watching the other groups, I found Caroline's the most interesting. I definitely learned something from Caroline's and overpowering I thought the opening was spectacular, we came in, bombarded by loud music in a dark room, the chalk on the walls added to this effect of an underground rave which was all very intimidating and overpowering. I thought the audience interaction, was very well done and I loved the hilarity of the sexual songs that Seth had written for the girls to sing. This was a spectacular, though there was one word and this was the funniest word of the week, and that word was Mao! Tim's group I didn't particularly enjoy, I think 1 of the reasons was, and everybody said this, it wasn't Brechtian and all of it was scripts about politicians, so I think it became a little dull after a while and also, I don't think it explored the question, or made me think. This allowed me to think about how we could make our peice better