14/14 Evaluation:

This was the poster for our show, it's pretty clear why it was called 14 by 14. It was a mix of different contemporary shows and doing scenes with either two or three people all together and we involved Kj's and Saskia's contemporary monologues as well.

Personally I think the show went well considering we had to switch the dates up a lot. I really loved the fact we didn't go on the stage and that we performed it in the round, with us sitting in the audience, I felt like that was way more powerful than the audience watching us on the stage. I felt the tension in the air and the awkwardness that the audience felt in certain scenes for example subjects involving race. I really think we drew the audience in really well and I'm glad we held up signs saying what play we was doing the scene from, otherwise I don't think the audience would have understood at all.

Overall evaluation:

Our set was very basic, it was based in the round with black curtains on a stand around every face of the square. We had very limited seating with us actors in the audience as well. I feel like the set worked really well with the show, it brought so much more tension into the audience and made them feel really uncomfortable. We always sat in the audience, so the audience never knew who was going to act next which I thought was good in the way that they was always guessing who would be next. Being in the round was challenging for everyone I think personally, this is because we have never done it before and you constantly have to move around so that everyone is the audience see's you.

The costume was very basic. It was a modern period of clothing which included black jeans, white t-shirts and then people would add costume for the characters such as cardigans or blazers that was meant just for that character, for example Lily wore a cardigan for Marley's character and I then had to wear that next as I was playing Marley and so it didn't confuse the audience. The costume definitely worked with the set as it was as blank as the set & lighting was. It didn't make us look like outcasts, and it made everyone look the same.

We used sound as the audience came in, it was the same song on repeat and then we used music before every scene and at the end of every scene when we was finishing the scene and it went into a black out. Ella had a directors vision for the show, she wanted us to feel the music and breathe the music in and out to really become the piece and the music to be part of us. I felt like it really impacted the piece because the music was quite eerie and I felt like if it was performed with no music, it wouldn't of had the same vibe.

The lighting was very natural, it was one bright light in the shade of white and we used slow blackouts with still some dimmed lights so that we could see and that was the only lighting we used as we didn't want to overdue it purely because of the set and our costume, it all needed to be neutral and linked together. There was no moments when it really impacted apart from when it was going into blackouts and the end of the scene was quite serious.

The characters were all different shows so there was no same characters and stuff. But the characters were from contemporary plays. But we all did developments of the characters in different ways, so for example Lily played Marley a lot different to how I played Marley. I didn't use an accent to be honest. But I did play my voice down a little bit because I am quite a well spoken person and Marley is not a well spoken person at all so I had to play down my diction a lot.

My character of Nicolas developed so much. i already had to change it around as the character is originally a male. I made the character come across so evil but in a subtle way because I didn't want my character to almost come across like a panto villian.

To be honest, I could not really do much for my character of 'ONE' in hang because it's almost completely normal.

There was definitely some moments of impacts such as when there was explicit scenes/when political issues such as racism, and rape made it really impact on the audience. There were certain subjects brought up or shown in these scenes which you don't really hear people say out loud and I think it made the audience uncomfortable being surrounded in it. There was no way that our show would have been as affective without it being in the round because it kept the tension throughout and made the audience be drawn in more.