Political Theatre Performance Evaluation

After all of our devising lessons that i have previously spoken about we finally performed our piece in the space to an audience. Overall i think that our performance went extremely well and i am very proud of it as we put a lot of work in and it paid off in the end. One of the things that went well in our performance was that we kept the energy up throughout, this was important as our piece is very audience inclusive and because of that if the energy drops then the audience will lose focus and that means the performance quality overall will drop and as we kept the energy up it means that the performance was more effective. Furthermore another thing that was extremely effective was the use of props in our piece as their was a lot of different props for all the different parts of the play and everyone always remembered when to bring and to not bring the props on stage and that confidence of always knowing when something should and should not being happening on stage meant that the play flowed even more and this gave the play a more professional vibe to it and made it even more enjoyable to perform, also further provide confidence we had the plays running order in terms of scenes and who was on stage at what times on a sheet of paper where the actors were sitting so that if we were confused at anytime we were able to just refer to it which was extremely useful. I think that we were also able to work as an ensemble extremely well in the parts that required us to, for example when we were doing our individual '7 deadly sins' in one of them all actors had to come on stage and laugh whilst slightly tilting their body the was very over the top and it was probably funny to watch as the staging was effective i gather this from the audience reaction and how they laughed a long with us even if they weren't certain what was actually going on in that particular scene.  I think that by including the audience in the play and also by being over the top and extremely unrealistic we were able to prove our political point about cuts more effectively and remind that even though this is a play it is also going on today.
Even though overall the play went very well there are a few thing that i would do differently if i were to re perform the piece. One thing that i think we could have made clearer was the actual structure of the play. This is because as we were doing two separate plays as well as our own devised pieces it may have been hard for the audience to distinguish which parts were which therefore i think that to make it easier we could have had a more simpler structure that did not jump from one piece to another e.g. the game show to indulgence to seven deadly sins, as it would have made it more clear to the performance members what was going on at what points in the play. Another way that i would have changed the performance to improve it is to be a bit more cleaner with our transitions because at some points it seemed as though they were not fluid and to the audience it may have looked like we weren't aware as to what was going on at the different moments. However overall the play was extremely effective and went well and i look forward to working with more political texts in the future.