On May 17th, when discussing our blog entries, Miss Woffinden noticed that I’d mentioned that we needed to ‘polish’ our performance and told me I should explain what it meant and why we do it.
When I say we need to polish a performance, I mean we need to rehearse it so that everybody is certain on what they are doing and there is no danger on anybody messing up. The performance is slick and flowing with no pauses where there shouldn’t be and the dialogue flows naturally. We need to rehearse a lot more so that we don’t need to stop and clarify the stage directions, we just do them naturally because we have done it that many times that it is stuck in our heads but it also needs to look as if its coming naturally so that the performance is more realistic. This isn’t as important for our performance as it is for the others as ours is very Brecht in style with the props and set especially.
However, we still cannot afford any mistakes or mess-ups and therefore need to ‘polish’ the performance until we are certain this will not happen.
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