Emily Walton with a debut blog of an exemplary nature!
Ladies and gentlemen... We made it to show week! All of the ridiculous amount of advertisement that we did last week (if you hadn't seen it, where were you?) paid off as we were opening on Thursday night at The Hepworth with almost a full house, something that's definitely encouraging for your first performance. The space we had was modern and new, a complete contrast to Horbury Methodist. We set up the space, an Italian line run and did our vocal warm ups then it was time to prepare ourselves for the show. Each one of us has a different way of getting into the 'zone'. Whether that be listening to music, re-reading the script or just thinking about what our character (in my case, Siobhan) has done leading up to being in the portacabin. The show went extremely well, a few wobbles but it was only us that noticed and it can be understood for opening night! Then it came to night two... We absolutely killed it! Everyone had such an amazing feeling at the end because we took the night before into consideration and made sure that them mistakes never happened again. Before we knew it, both shows on Saturday had gone amazingly well! Hacktivists has challenged us all in so many ways because the play itself is very different. It's very word-y and it involves 97% of us onstage at all times. Also it's very quick in pace so we had to 'earn our pauses' and keep the ball in the air otherwise the whole production fell. Also our relationships with other characters; who we liked, who we were friends with, why we didn't like certain people. All that had to be at the front of our minds to influence our performance and attitude towards other characters. A thing that all the cast think that we have got out of this year's connections is confidence as the play is very demanding and also stamina because there's four scenes but each scene is about 10 pages and has a lot of content to get through. For Hacktivists, we had to do quite a bit of background research as not many of us really new the meaning of 'technocratic junta' or what 'Operation Olympic Games' was so we put together a word document explaining each of these so we had a better understanding of what we actually are talking about. To help us with character development, we did an exercise where we had to think about what our character was doing before the play began from the minute we woke up. Personally (as I am the youngest) the challenge for me was trying to go at the fast pace of everyone else and keeping up as they're all 1+ years older. However, I enjoyed the challenge. Another this was thought processing every line helped so you can't just throw them away as each one had to have a purpose behind it to why you are saying that. All in all, Connections 2015 has been the best thing in the world as I've met so many new friends who I now consider another family to me! Bring on Kendal in nine weeks...
Ladies and gentlemen... We made it to show week! All of the ridiculous amount of advertisement that we did last week (if you hadn't seen it, where were you?) paid off as we were opening on Thursday night at The Hepworth with almost a full house, something that's definitely encouraging for your first performance. The space we had was modern and new, a complete contrast to Horbury Methodist. We set up the space, an Italian line run and did our vocal warm ups then it was time to prepare ourselves for the show. Each one of us has a different way of getting into the 'zone'. Whether that be listening to music, re-reading the script or just thinking about what our character (in my case, Siobhan) has done leading up to being in the portacabin. The show went extremely well, a few wobbles but it was only us that noticed and it can be understood for opening night! Then it came to night two... We absolutely killed it! Everyone had such an amazing feeling at the end because we took the night before into consideration and made sure that them mistakes never happened again. Before we knew it, both shows on Saturday had gone amazingly well! Hacktivists has challenged us all in so many ways because the play itself is very different. It's very word-y and it involves 97% of us onstage at all times. Also it's very quick in pace so we had to 'earn our pauses' and keep the ball in the air otherwise the whole production fell. Also our relationships with other characters; who we liked, who we were friends with, why we didn't like certain people. All that had to be at the front of our minds to influence our performance and attitude towards other characters. A thing that all the cast think that we have got out of this year's connections is confidence as the play is very demanding and also stamina because there's four scenes but each scene is about 10 pages and has a lot of content to get through. For Hacktivists, we had to do quite a bit of background research as not many of us really new the meaning of 'technocratic junta' or what 'Operation Olympic Games' was so we put together a word document explaining each of these so we had a better understanding of what we actually are talking about. To help us with character development, we did an exercise where we had to think about what our character was doing before the play began from the minute we woke up. Personally (as I am the youngest) the challenge for me was trying to go at the fast pace of everyone else and keeping up as they're all 1+ years older. However, I enjoyed the challenge. Another this was thought processing every line helped so you can't just throw them away as each one had to have a purpose behind it to why you are saying that. All in all, Connections 2015 has been the best thing in the world as I've met so many new friends who I now consider another family to me! Bring on Kendal in nine weeks...
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