Dress rehearsal in The New Theatre with all the Strands

Today, in our lesson, we went into the space in which we will perform our piece for "Little People Day". The New Theatre. We done this so that we could rehearse how everybody was getting on and off stage.

It was really good because we got to see how our show would end up looking like, we also got to experience performing in one of our school's theatre.

Why it was good for me to work in a professional theatre
It was beneficial for me to work in a professional theatre as it allowed me to understand the environment that professional actors work in and the level at which professionals have to work at to achieve good results. It also allowed me to see what working at a professional level would entail and the standards I would have to live up to. Working in the professional theatre also allowed me to see how theatres work in general such as entrances and exists. It also taught me that your voice isn't your only source of acting and you can use things such as body language to express and show your emotions and feelings.

How could I/ we as a group improve?

• To have faith in acting that our section was boring but interesting and captivating.
• To fully commit to roles to make more effective and show off our skills to our full potential.
• To not make our piece boring, but to make it captivating and alive. 

What I learnt?
I feel that I learnt how mature you have to be to be able to work in a professional theatre and how important team work is. I also learnt that it is more beneficial when performing to young children you need to use more body language and less complicated language as young children remember actions better than complicated language. I learnt that for children theatre doesn't always have to be musical and exciting. For example our classes section of the book was more dull and boring as we were exploring and performing life where dreams didn't exist therefore our piece was not intended to be happy. My class still had to commit to our roles as much as the other groups however we had to portray to the young audience that our scene was about life with no dreams so in this case it was okay for our scene to come across "boring". During this dress rehearsal I learnt how to develop my confidence in acting.

What went well?
I feel as though this dress rehearsal went really well because everyone cooperated relatively well. I also feel as if everyone put in effort to perform our show and this made me really look forward to performing to the children next week.

How it developed my acting
I developed my acting by learning how to co-operate better with a large group of actors, dancers, musicians, and theatre crew. It helped me to understand how to work in a theatre like a young adult and it made me more confident in acting.