Performance day/Evaluation

We had our final dress run and things went considerably smoother than our first time in the theatre but there were still points for improvement, these were:

• Exits: When we exit, we dropped our physicalities and became ourselves, it let down all the hard work we put in. We have to wait until we are offstage to become ourselves again. It's also the same for when we come onstage, we come onstage and then become our characters when we should already be our characters by the time we come onstage.
• Opening scene: Once again, I was too quiet with the commands and we missed the first cue to fall over and the stage was imbalanced; too many people were on one side. There was a tech error where the lights weren't going out and we stopped screaming because our scene was meant to have finished. It turns out they missed the cue which was someone's line, this was a clear example of how much louder and clearer we needed to be but in some instances, people were being too loud and the cue wasn't heard
• Project: This was a note for everyone. Projection was an issue and we needed to be so much louder or the audience wouldn't be able to hear us and would get bored.

We were all needless to say, jittery before the performance, but that soon dissolved when we got on stage.
I feel that the performance went very well. We got loads of laughs, moments of applause and a standing ovation at the end. There was an immense sense of pride amongst the cast, the crew behind the scenes, Jack and our audience. We knew everything about our play and it showed through our acting and the reaction we got from our audience. I personally feel like I did very well; I rooted my breath when I spoke, I went to everyone and shouted commands and I remembered the cues. As a spirit, I didn't go unnoticed. I interacted with the audience who were shocked by my blue makeup, I didn't hold back on my physicality and I used my face to show expressions. I made my physicalities for Master of the ship and Bubbles very different and the feedback I got back from member of the audience were very positive regarding my stage presence.
Things I feel I will improve on when I go to Brighton is that this time I will use my whistle that I neglected and I should be shouting more commands and doing more in general in the beginning scene. I felt that in that scene I could have done so much more with myself.