Final Evaluation

I have enjoyed working on the Little Peoples Day performance. Foe me personally I found it really fun to take our physical theatre skills to the next level but also become a child again. I never really thought about my dreams in such depth before, and when we had to take ourselves back to a place which for me was a long time ago, felt quite surreal as my dream was from when I was about 5 years old and even to this day I still remember it. Becoming a kid again was probably my highlight, like playing sleepy bunnies, which surprisingly was really enjoyable and something I think the whole class loved, in got us in the childish mood that was great for coming up with ideas, and over acting our pieces.

I struggled at first with trying to think of ways to perform which wasn't to complex for the children. Although children do understand emotion, we couldn't make things too complex or not PG as they are still children and they take everything very literally.

My view on physical theatre has changed dramatically, I see it differently now as though I understand it better. I think before I saw physical theatre as a dance of emotions that I found quite hard to do. But now I know its so much more, its feeling and everything you want to say put into actions, facial expressions, body movements. I now feel as though I could do a whole physical theatre piece now and I would be very comfortable with coming up with ideas, and putting them ideas to life.

Our final product for me I found confusing at first, I didn't really see how the children would like it as it was a bit on the creepy side, especially with the Tim Burton music! I also didn't know how the children were going to act, would they cry, scream I really wasn't sure. It wasn't until we performed it to the rest of our year until I realised what our piece had. Our piece was full of meanings and comedy and imagination, lots of imagination that I think the other performances didn't have. As soon as our class performed we understood it and therefore we even more eager to make this the best performance that hopefully the kids would love and remember forever.

I liked how our piece was made up of tiny dreams, that all meant something to us and maybe to  the audience too. I enjoyed being able to work on our own, it felt good to have something all by myself which I had all control of. The Dinosaur at the end could probably of needed more time as not everyone was in time, and somethings went a bit wrong, like forgetting of lines, but what I love about my group is that we can recover from those situations quickly and work as a team. At the end of the day we all love theatre and try our best in it, so when we were about to go on stage and perform we all were so ready and in the mood, we can all pull it together at the last minute and that's why our class works so well.

Overall I liked our performance, it had so much imagination, it really was a dream world. I hope the children took something away from, even just being amazed at what they saw. Our piece was so different to the other strands and I'm glad it was. We were so creative and gave a new perspective to childrens theatre. We made everyone laugh and that's all that matters, we put on a good show that people enjoyed. I think as a class we need to remember who our target audience is, in this case it was children not our piers. I think that's why everyone at the start wasn't so keen, but we all wanted to prove ourselves, and I think we did. We over exaggerated everything, walked in neutral and worked all together to create a giant Dinosaur. So I think we did pretty good and I definitely learnt a lot from this experience. I will be sad to see my teacher Mr Crowther leave, as he has taught me a lot this year and believed in our class. I hope in the future we will have more experiences like this and perform to lots more types of audiences.