Post show

My costume and you can see Isabella
getting ready for the show

The show was great. I really enjoyed that moment when you are nervous and excited at the same time. The last time I performed in front of big audience was last year when we performed Our Day Out and my playing role was Carol. However, I didn`t expect that our and other groups performance would be that good as one week to performance we haven`t run through the whole play with all members of green group. It was always someone missing or we were running out of time to rehearse it. Most of the time I was working with Trinculo and Stephano
 as most of my scenes are with them. On Monday during our technical rehearsal we decided to add some jokes to make it more funny and it worked. Even though we did it last minute the response from the audience was great. They were laughing and cheering when Odinelsa said something funny. For example, they really liked when she started singing at her first scene. The audience loved Carlos behaviour, most of the time he gave lots of energy to our scene as he was obedience to Stephano. I think, that I did really good getting under the skin. The time I was "sitting" in the cave I was concentrating and tried to think what would I think "if I was Caliban" and it really helped me to focus because I sat there for at least 15 or 20 minutes as I had got there before the audience started arriving.


The only thing that went wrong in the afternoon performance was when the fire drill went off and we were about to go on and the so everyone had to leave the premises.
I think it slightly helped us as everyone calmed down a bit and weren`t nervous as we were before. The performance went well. We didn`t make any big mistakes and got really good feedback from tutors and friends who came to watch us.

In my opinion we got relaxed during the day and wasn`t so focus. After I said my line Odinelsa or Carlos forgot theirs or skipped straight to the next part which made confusion. We stayed in quite for at least 30seconds which feels like 5 minutes on stage and then Carlos tried to fix the situation by saying "You know what I`ll go further off" then Luis helped us out by playing the music of Aerial which meant we`ve got to follow it and we exited the stage. In our very first scene we forgot to take lid of the bottle that Odinelsa had to get us all drunk and the cloth
I was hiding under. But we easily figure it out  and Trinculo grabbed it in our next scene. We smoothed it out so the audience could think it supposed to happen like this. But everything else was great. We put a lot of energy in it so the stage didn`t look dead. Also Rob gave each of us some notes after costume rehearsal in the morning which I used later in the show. My notes were roar when I came out of the cave, laugh and then say "you taught me language and my profit on it is...", pick up the cues and add tempo to my speech "Why, as I told thee..". However, it`s good to relax after long months of working on the Tempest.

Starting from the righ to the left Odinelsa (Stephano), me(Caliban)
 and Carlos(Tinculo)

Technical rehearsal, the end of the play