Physical Theatre: Evaluation

Overall, I think our piece was performed relatively well. I think we used a range of techniques and carried them off to a good standard, especially in the time we had to construct the piece. I also like the message we wanted to show, as we felt it had a deep meaning and a real sense of sophistication about it. I think we displayed creative movements and showed, in terms of staging and dialogue, how well thought out our piece was, I think we had really nice elements of showing repression. Also, I think the way our piece flowed and how quickly we came up with it was down to our group working productively and professionally to achieve what we all wanted.

However, after feedback we realised that, perhaps, our piece wasn't clear enough in terms of the message we wanted to get across. Perhaps we should have added some pictures or projections to aid our idea of repression and how religion shapes people. Another thing that was a problem is that we only had two lessons to come up with a piece, which is a very short amount of time. Ideally, we would have liked to spend a couple of weeks on conducting workshops to experiment different styles of physical theatre, like DV8 or Frantic Assembly, to gain a wider knowledge of styles and a greater knowledge of what movements we could use. I thought the time and lack of knowledge of styles limited us, as we had to work quickly to get a piece done. If we did have longer, I think the piece would have been longer, more creative and more polished as a result, but in the time we had  think we showed we have creative minds, can work efficiently as a team to get things done and that we grasp an understanding of Physical Theatre.