June 15th: Drama Pre-Performance

On June 14^th, we finally performed our pieces to our audiences.  Frankie and I were particularly worried about this as on the run through we recorded on Thursday, there were lots of lines missed, lines said wrong, set being moved at the wrong time or not at all when it should have been and skipping to the wrong piece of dialogue at the wrong time.  We requested that if we rehearsed in the morning and it there were still lines not being said, then we could postpone the performance again but Miss Woffinden said that we were able to cover up and mistakes and missed cues, especially as it was in a style where we could be comical about it for example, if Olly jumped to the wrong line a bit early, I could chip in with ‘Oh Olly, you forgot that the wolf comes on first!  The story is just right there!’ and it wouldn’t look too out of place.

Still slightly anxious, we rehearsed for an hour but due to rooming issues, we couldn’t use our set as all 3 groups were sharing 1 room and another group had already brought their set in and claimed the space.  This was a small issue as we were the first to perform and out of the 3 groups, the most worried and least confident.  As we had very little space, we decided that we would just sit down and run through the lines but with the music (the backing track of our song) playing in the background to see how it sounded.  I think it just gave the play a little more life and filled and silences there were during scene changes.  For the second hour, we got moved into the room we would be performing in, we requested that we have our set at as during the rehearsal process, when all 3 groups were in 1 room, we had been the group with the least space.  We managed to claim a corner and could only have 1 of 3 pieces of set we use.  There were the GCSE drama group in with us aswell which made everything even more cramped up.  Miss Woffinden said that because their next topic was TiE, they could watch us rehearse and/or we could perform for them to give them a taste of what it was like.  Seb was practicing with his guitar which made it very hard for us to hear each other and our track so Frankie and I went into the ICT room to print off he posters and programme.

During break time, we set up all the set and got into costume.  We had 1 final run through and waited for the audience.  Olly and I went up to the classroom which they were in and asked them to make their way to the drama studio in character.  We escorted them down to the performance area and got them sat down.

We then performed.