Mickey Vs. Lyons

The first thing I did with my group was to create freeze frames, showing a clear contradiction between the lives of Edward and Mrs Lyons, and Mickey and Ms Johnstone. We performed the scene in which Edward and Mickey asked their mothers, whether or not they could go to the cinema. To show the clear contrast, we showed Mrs Lyons to be quite an overly protective mother, who wanted to know: the movie, the age restriction, the venue and many other pieces of information; however, Ms Johnstone was portrayed as quite an immature and careless mother, who laughed at Mickey when she knew what movie Mickey was going to watch. The laughing from Ms Johnstone is evidence of how she enjoys a bit of a joke, unlike her counterpart: Mrs Lyons. To show two events happening at the same time, but at a different place, we used split-staging. As we finished a scene we froze and the other side started. I think that as a group we executed the performance with only a couple of minor errors.
This was largely the fault of the whole group as we didn’t focus on audience awareness and just focused on the content of the play. The other fatal error that we made was that we didn’t use the script enough so the dialogue was our interpretation of the characters, which was conflicting with other people’s views of the script. This meant that we demonstrated our view that wasn’t understood by the audience and this caused a lot of confusion for the audience and caused some disengagement. If my group and I were to perform this same task we would direct ourselves more to help with our positioning. To do this we will make sure we rehearse facing the way our audience would be sitting and will get one of our group members to stand outside of the performance and make sure everything is alright before they join the performance