So last Friday my partner and I performed scene one from Matt Cameron's Ruby Moon. WE were first up and I think we did reasonably well. We got a response from the audience (laughter at our humour) and swear I heard a kid say "That was good" So yeh, we should be marked well. I'm only worried about what I will be marked down on. There were a couple of lines that I just could never remember during rehearsals, and sure enough, that was obvious in our performance. I had to call out "Prompt" two times. That's not looking good for me. The next pair were okay. They had very little time to rehearse because one didn't have a partner, and the other had only just returned to Drama. But keeping that in mind, they did relatively well. They were emotional and their stage set-up was a really good idea. Instead of having the typical proscenium stage (like what we used), they chose a thrust stage. They had a small black box with a mannequin on it and a small table at the back. They had lights on both of these props, but the light was more intense on 'the Ruby mannequin'. It was very effective because it brought focus to Ruby and their faces were brightly lit up - even with some some shadowing effects.
The last pair were really good. They remembered all of their lines and they just about nailed it. Their only issue was timing. It would be really unfortunate if they lost a few marks for that.
So on the whole everyone did really well. It got really hot under the lights but it was a lot of fun.
Ness
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