Bertolt Brecht: Part 3

Today we performed our piece to the rest of the class. Unfortunately, two of our cast members were missing today, so we had to borrow someone in the other group who had missed both of the last two lessons to fill in for Yussup and another old woman. Which wasn't ideal as he only had about half an hour to get familiar with the piece. Thankfully the girl who played Grusha in the other group agreed to play the part in our piece too, which made things a lot easier.

Putting the setbacks aside, I think we done well. We implemented a lot of techniques that Brecht used in his time and I think we were organised in how we set about our piece and it flowed very smoothly. One thing we struggled with was trying to come up with ways in which we could make the piece quirky and interesting. We all found the piece boring and one thing we should have done was to discuss how we could add flair and excitement to the piece, we didn't do this, and as a result I found the piece a bit flat. We needed to add some quirkiness to the piece, give it some character, we all seemed to be very restricted in what we did, this impacted on our performance, which seemed basic. In future, I think we should express our ideas as a group to show off our creative talents.