Evaluation of site performance.

To begin with I would like to start by saying it was an all round positive performance even though we didn't have maximum capacity audience members to fully commit to our piece. At the beginning we failed to really reel in the audience as there were 5 out of 20 audience members and therefore the lines we said were basically directed at a specific point of the space and not to the audience directly.

It came to a point in the piece where we were not emotionally engaged and I felt that we just did things because we had to, not because we felt it and although we received a positive grade I feel to next time secure it fully without uncertainty we should always be emotionally active. To make sure this is used to practice, it would be good to do a scene over and over again until we realise and understand the theme of that particular moment to then go off and know why that is happening, and why we reacted the way we did in that moment.

However there were really special moments where there was silence and we came to a movement of toys to symbolise the children's toys almost being them and how they were being controlled by the adults. This didn't break the fourth wall just yet but allowed the audience to have a clearer understanding of the base of this play if they didn't know the true story behind it and from this we were able to tell a story in a much more theatrical way for the audience members

My most memorable moment would have to be the conclusion when the news reporter had to report the missing children after police investigations. This was a nearly impossible task to do as the original actor for that part wasn't there for the performance so I had to fill in and improvise with what I felt would be suitable for a news report and how to address the parents at home (the audience) to keep their children at home. This not only broke the fourth wall between the actors and the audience but it also brought them to an area of discomfort and this was only a positive as it made our performance effective.

Overall it was a positive performance and all actors involved were full of energy even though we didn't have a full capacity of audience members we still were able to feed off each other and produce something well working for. Next time we need to ensure that whatever the performance type or space we do our piece in, we let people know that it's for a specific amount of people and for them to be on time and to know the location.