For the whole term, I think not only did our group produce a quality piece of drama, but we worked really well together and each contributed to the creative process, (though hats off to Hannah for an amazing effort in every respect). I think we were pretty lucky to get the funniest and least harrowing part of the monologue, but we took advantage of this to produce a very humorous and energetic piece. I personally loved choreographing in a Berkoff style, although tiring, it has a hella lot of energy and fun with it (though I don't think I'd want to do a performance longer than fifteen minutes).
Perhaps we could have made our piece more defined and mimetic as within it there was maybe a little too much fluidity of movement. I also think we could have worked more on transitions to make them more eye-catching and synchronised. Although the passing of the voice was very good for the first half, I think we lost the focus achieved there in the second half of the piece. Finally, we could have reacted more to each personality, perhaps creating a certain manner of reaction from the group each time a certain personality took control, nothing big, but an indication.
I think all this would have come with a longer rehearsal period considering we only blocked the full piece two weeks before the performance and did a considerable amount of refinement as it was, and so for the time we were given, our piece was pretty good. I loved devising and performing, and hopefully improved my expression, physical movements and memory for choreography, though that is yet to be tested.
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