Brighton

Today was the day we performed in Brighton Fringe Fest. Since we did two really successful performances last Thursday, we all felt like this performance wasn't going to be very good as we felt as if we had all 'peaked'.

After arriving at the performing space, we all were told what was going to happen before the teachers let us go around Brighton for a while. 

When we came back, we got changed in the public toilets (which was weird because the public were all coming in wondering what was happening) and then we went to Ben who then told us to do side stretch and warm up in front of everyone. Some members of the public were joining in as they didn't know it was a serious thing and most, if not all, people were all watching us and taking pictures. We weren't allowed to wear shoes, which sounded like a good idea before I remembered we were performing on gravel!!

When the performance started, I realised we had a smaller performing space than in the New Theatre so everything was very cramped. When we were running around, my feet were in so much pain that I really felt like I wasn't fully committing to my movements. When I was projecting, it sounded loud to me however everyone thought the same thing about themselves, making me worry that none of us were loud enough (at the end, Ben told us all that we were the best group at projection, which made me feel really good about the performance).

I think the performance went okay (although the audience all said it was very strong) because it wasn't like the ones at school. When I came on as Nurse, I forgot that there was no screaming anymore so I forgot my cue however Shanay really helped me out and went straight into it. When she killed me, because we had little room to perform, I fell forward and hit my head really hard on the staging; I really wanted to break character but then I remembered it was a real performance and if I did, it would make the play worse for everyone and not just me. The blood still got in my eyes so I couldn't see.

Overall I do think it went quite well and I'm happy that we successfully took our performance somewhere other than school that brought in a large and very attentive audience. If I was going to do it again, I would suggest wearing shoes/socks so that my performance doesn't suffer due to my feet being in pain.