evaluation Blood wedding Thursdays group

The day had begin in a rush since I was late to college we  to had met up in the theatre to run a dress rehearsal before the performance but most of us were running late  .    The first thing I done was starting on my hair , I had thought wearing it nice and wavy would be a good idea cause it's makes my hair look more nice and out going .  Which  links to the play ; were suppose to be at a wedding . Not too long after doing my hair and putting on my costume the audience had arrived for our performance .  I had to stay mainly in the changing room so that they wouldn't hear me walking behind stage with my heels on . In the changing rooms there were speakers there that were connected to the theatre which help me keep track of where we were in the play and when I had to go on .  

COSTUME ;  

The costume I had on today was like a long maxi dress with silver sequence around the neck area . This dress was the most suitable for the play out of the few I had chosen before .  

 For example  the dress above is  an idea of what I had in mind before  which was too revealing and  I felt  as if it was inappropriate for the play .   But also for the character because her husband isolates her and doesn't  give her any love or attention . Which is why I felt like dressing very plain and ordinary would make more sense  as to why I don't get attention from him because of the way I dress .  Everyone else in the play was dressed very modern we had the servant dressed in a black and white dress with her hair tied up .    This dress was chosen by the costume designs both Sara  and DZyire who done a very good job because the costume suited her role very well . 

 For the mother she was dressed in a nice burgundy dress with a little bit of sequence around the neck area , Which was very fancy and modern for the play . This dress was worn by both Jessica and. Rebecca  who played the role as the mother

 Both husband  Leonardo and the father were dressed very smart in there suit and ties . Which fits the setting of the play  very well because they are at a wedding so they dress up smart .   We had difficulties finding a pair of smart shoes for Remal who plays the role as Leonardo. But we had told him wearing a plain black shoes would be okay to wear and wouldn't  draw attention  from the audience .

 The dress Dyzire had wore as the bride was very cute and looked very old  fashion and traditional . Which I felt fit the play very well other than Sara dress for the  bride .   Was very modern the style of the dress was a lot more detailed which I did think look nice . But felt as if it was too much for the play and character . 

  For the three woodcutter  were dressed in a checcard  shirt jeans and some boots to go along with it .  the woodcutters didn't have much of a  big role in the play but had all play they're role correctly.

HAIR AND MAKE UP ; 

The  hair and make up  was run by Maya and Deirdre .  Make up was mainly  done by Maya again since as Deirdre didn't know how to do it properly .Maya contoured Jacobs face and use hair spray in his hair and added baby powder to make it grey since as he was playing the  role as the father again .                                                                                                                                                                     . She  then done the same thing she done to Rebecca  to Jessica the day before which was contouring her face and adding baby powder so she can also have grey hair .    For the servant and the guest she added blusher to there faces she kept it mutual since as they didn't have a big role in the play .   The brides had a nice smokey eyes and a nude lipstick . Which was also Mutual  because they're dresses   had drawn  a lot of attention . 

PROPS ; 

   The props were managed by Jessica and Darcey , they were given this role during our production .  And had come up with all props for The show .    The props we mainly used during the performance were chairs and whine glasses for the guests at the wedding . 

The glasses were also useful in a scene were I offered Leonardo a glass of lemon.

We had also had used a knitting kit Yasmin had brought it from home for Rebecca and Jessica to use as the mother for the opening scene . 

 We had a few traditional fans that were bought in by Jessica, then we had a mirror and a brush .   Which  was useful within the scene where the servant is brushing the brides hair .  We had fake axes for the woodcutters and  a knife for Obafemi in the ending scene to appears upstage to represent death . 

     

LIGHTING;  

The lighting for the performance was pretty much the same for every scene . The main colour that stood out  was the  red with tropical colours in the back ground .  We had a spotlight on Obafemi towards the ending . And during the dance we had a red background but a shallow spotlight on the bride and the bride groom .   I was disappointed   with the lights we were given  for our performance , we had Rebecca and Remal in charge of the lightning's and had come up with some brilliant ideas . But there ideas were thrown aside and  over taken by robs ideas .       However we  then had the  three woodcutter  on stage we had a special type of lighting  which showed an outline of trees in a wood .  The lighting is very similar to the one below  i felt like this was one of the best lighting used throughout the play because it had a lot of detail towards it an gave the audience  a clear image there were in the woods .     

  MUSIC ;    
The music for the play was mainly the same song through out  the entire play , we had used the same instrumental   for  the opening of the performance and the end  . The only different song we used within the performance was the song for the dance , which I really liked the song  it was very catchy and was easy to dance  too.     the name of the song was  Gipsy kings -djobi djoba  . 





The box office which is basically outside  where the guest come later on in the evening was decorated with some pepper lights  a painting saying blood wedding and a picture of the cast .  The box office was seen by family members and friends that had visited in the evening .

The play we performed in the evening was terrible we had made a lot of noise back stage which  wasn't suppose to happened since as we practice that during rehearsals especially for the girls who were wearing hills were told to walk on tippy toes behind stage to prevent noise .  And to top it off we had Sara back stage  who was crying because she had gone on stage with her dress back to front .  this had cause some actors  coming on stage late because they were too busy trying to comfort Sara and Yamine .  the dance was very messy and I had forgotten my  lines where  i had to talk to the bridegroom after  the dance .  there was also a lot of laughing going on stage which caused the audience to laugh along with us .    after we had done our performance we had to shorten our brake and work on our peace , Rob was very disappointed in the work we had progress and wanted to improve it with us . our final performance in the evening was one of the best everything went good   there was no mistake no laughing on stage and no noise behind stage .    The dance had gone really good and had change since as I was the wife  I had to dance with Remal which went really good .
                                                                                                                                                                                                   How i think   played   my role  Ihonestly believe Iplayed my role amazingly, all the hard  work and practice had played off  . I had began to show a lot of hatred and suspicion towards my husband  which I found difficult at first because I didn't understand why. And also because the person  I  had to hate I didn't actually hate them or have anything against them . Which is were the drama comes in I had to empathies and imagine I was talking to someone I had hate , which had really worked because my attitude had picked up more  towards him .    My  overall though and opinion were  very impressed  by  how   I performed on Thursday compared to how I was on Wednesday.  I  had gain a lot of confidence compared  Wednesday. Were   was  very nervous on stage and  i had forgotten my lines ,  which  is why I  was very disappointed in my self because I had practice a lot and was upset by the out come.

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