REHEARSAL AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION (Devising).

On the contrary, I think there were a few times during the performance we could’ve done more. I think given the limited time and lack of a directorial role meant there were a few scenes that felt comparatively less developed and subsequently lower quality than other more rehearsed parts of the performance. I think a thing we could’ve done better was effectively split our time and effort across multiple different scenes and other aspects of the performance, for instance, the scene with the grandpa was lacking in terms of quality in script work and volume. I found that there were scenes that definitely felt weaker, another one being the bar scene. I felt that there were parts of that performance that were under-rehearsed, such as the speech about William’s death, that definitely could’ve been improved as it didn’t feel realistic to what would’ve been said during that era. A lot of these issues were absolutely tied to the lack of a director for two weeks, but to be more critical, a lot of the work that we could’ve been doing during those two weeks was either not done or scrapped entirely. Furthermore, I think after our director came back, we had a lot of issues translating the ideas and carrying a lot of them across. In my case, a lot of the research wasn’t used. This is obviously bad, as a lot of the time and effort I put into researching the cemetery and its trees were lost. 

To evaluate, I think the latter half of the process was much sharper and more focused than the beginning, due to the pressure of having to put a performance on. I think a lot of the cast, myself included, could’ve done more during the time we didn’t have a proper directorial role, and that a lot of the work during those few weeks was good, but could’ve definitely been much better overall. I do however think we did excellently during the rehearsal process and made the performance much tighter and of higher quality. I think we definitely came together as a cast during the whole process, obviously more evidently during the final part of the performance process.