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James Loughlin has kindly blogged about last weeks performances


Due to there being no-one from Journey to X writing a blog for last week’s performance I thought I’d come along and tell you all about and add an extra mention about the Black Companies performances of Spirit of the Landscape.
Last week everything else seemed to have come to a standstill and all focus and attention was focussed on that of the performances of Journey to X. It was a week of greater discoveries, overcoming obvious obstacles and great success (and I’m talking about both Journey to X and Spirit of the Landscape).
We had very strong performances with many of our friends and families coming to see our hard work we had put in over the past few months, with each cast improving on the last performances meaning that we wouldn’t become comfortable with our performance but strive to make it better and push the boundary in each scene. We have attained brilliant feedback from all that saw it and we thank you all for your support.  Now unfortunately we have this month of cool down from the performance until we pick back up on the rehearsals at the end of the month to prepare for our Kendal date.  Hopefully our next set of rehearsals will bring new ideas and discoveries to both the play and characters.
There was also our Black Company piece of Spirit of the Landscape, our physical theatre piece that we had created in only a few sessions (5 or 6 I can’t exactly remember). It’s a rather weird feeling when you perform a piece like this and people are telling you how good it looks, and says how beautiful it looks, you decide to imagine what it would look like from the audiences point of view and start saying to yourself “surely it can’t be that good” but we’re not ones to not accept a compliment when given one. Even though on the occasional nights we were missing the odd member it was a piece where this was easy to cover and adjust the performance as if they were never there. After the pre-show performances we did before Journey to X, all of Black Company had a nice visit to York to show other Youth Theatres from Yorkshire our latest piece and again all gave positive feedback.
So now we all go back to our respective Yew Tree companies, and enjoy our time off intense rehearsals and performances, and just get to have fun … at least until it’s time to do it all again (but hopefully that won’t feel like it’s just around the corner).

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