Unit 7 - Theatre in education

Tuesday 5^th December

Today we were performing our theatre in education performance to a practitioner who then gave us some feedback.

Alys from UCAN productions watched our performance today and then gave us some feedback at the end. She was also able to video this performance so we can watch it and see how we can improve ourselves. Here is a video of a full run through of the show:

Here is a video of Alys giving us some feedback from the show:

As you can see from the video, Alys gave us lots of great comments and ideas which we can use to improve our performance. Some of the comments that she gave me where:

·     Let Annie Apple have a reaction to the concept of Sweetie Day

·     Great energy in songs throughout

·     Good, clear instructions at the start with the shakers

·     Nice easy moves for the children to copy in Tanzie’s Tropical Fruit Song

·     Maybe invite children to come onto stage and copy the moves in Tanzie’s Tropical Fruit Song

·     More energy when entering

General group notes:

·     More audience participation

·     A bit more energy in the songs

·     More tension before the Sweetie Monster enters

·     Need to consider children will shake their shakers when Sweetie Monster comes on in his car

·     Get Nancy Narrator involved more

We then had some feedback from Danielle who is the assistant director. Danielle was meant to be in this performance but unfortunately it clashes with her work experience in France. She is now helping us to improve the performance. 

Here is a video of Danielle giving the group some feedback:

Here are some of the comments that Danielle gave us:

·     More cheerful and louder in the Sweetie Day song

·     Fruity Kingdom song has been improving but still needs to be a bit louder

Alys coming in today to watch our performance and give us some feedback is really useful as she hasn’t seen it before and she brought along her own ideas. We will have another practitioner coming in in January who will also watch the performance and give us some feedback. In the meantime we can take into consideration all the notes that Alys has given us which will help to improve the performance.