Show Day - Final Rehearsals

Today was the day of our show! This meant that we had final rehearsals in order to ensure that our play was going to go well and also to make the final tweaks of our show to perfect it and make it the best it could possibly be.

We started the day at 11am when we met outside the New Theatre to collect our costumes and do our hair/make-up. When we were all in the room, there was an amazing atmosphere filled with energy and excitement. We were each doing French braids onto each other and doing our make up, which was a plain white strip across our eyes.

After getting ready, we went into the New Theatre and were welcomed by the set and lighting, all ready for tonight's performances. I felt as if I was in the zone. I was ready for this performance. We went into side stretching and warming up; when we were doing this, we were dotted around the bottom of the stage. This was not intentionally set up for any reason but because we didn't have enough space however this really taught me how much space I had to work with and where onstage I can/cannot be seen by the audience.

After doing some warm up exercises, we went into a rehearsal. This rehearsal went really well!! This really showed me how ready we are as a cast and how well we all work together! I feel as if being in costume and being surrounded by the world makes me feel as my character and makes the whole play feel that more realistic. While we were running the play, the bit that I really find hard to maintain is when we are Goths surrounding Delainey (Lucius) and we have to maintain a strong and sturdy squat. I find this really difficult to maintain as my legs begin to lose feeling in them or they begin to get tired therefore I really need to work on holding this position (or finding a way to rotate squat positions) so that it looks more professional and I look more intimidating and not shaky.

Ben gave us a few notes after the run where he just told certain people to tweak a few things to perfect their actions. One of the notes that Ben gave me was to practice rolling the blanket into the baby before the show as I am quite slow at this. At lunch, I went to practice with it however I still found it hard therefore I decided to go at a good pace and elongate my 'OH MY LORD''s and 'AARON''s.

I felt really ready for tonight's performances and I couldn't wait to get onstage.