Drama Lesson Eleven

Drama Lesson Eleven
In this lesson, we had the whole to rehearse before our adult performance that evening. During the day we all had our technical rehearsals for all the lighting, smoke machine, projections and sound effects; while one group was going over all the technicals they needed, the other two groups were finalizing all the props, set and costumes needed for their performance. If that was sorted then we would rehearse our performance in our group of with other groups that were available at that moment in time.

After all groups had had their technical rehearsal, we performed a full run as the other actors from the other stories as the children. We recorded the run so that we could watch it back and see any improvements that needed to be made before our performance that evening. After this we had teacher and peer feedback to help each group improve performance and to also see what went well throughout the performance.

In the performance that evening, we got first hand experience with an audience, that wasn't the rest of the class, so we could see clearly what worked with an audience and what needed to be improved upon for our performances for the primary schools on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday. The only downside to the evening performance experience was that we had not idea of the different reactions from the children because the audience was older than our target audience.