That Face directed by Samantha Argyle
This was probably the most difficult piece to work on out of
all them, as I feel that there wasn’t a relationship established from the
beginning with the director and the actors. I felt that a lot of times in
rehearsal there wasn’t a connection with Sam when we would be acting out a
scene, which made me feel like what I was doing wasn’t interesting or good. It
was hard to feel excited about performing this piece because there wasn’t a lot
of enthusiasm in rehearsal I wasn’t enthusiastic about my character when I
would leave the rehearsal room. There were times I enjoyed playing the
character of Martha a drunken, slightly mental mother who was addicted to
painkillers as it was such an interesting character to play and one that had an
edge to her. Even though she was in the wrong most of the time and out of line
with the things she said you would still feel sorry for her and have sympathy
for everything she does. We never got to perform That face in front of an
audience as the main actor was ill on the day of the show so we had to film
certain scenes that could be performed. I was happy with that as we still
didn’t feel ready to perform as a lot of us were in other pieces as well it was
hard to rehearse and try and remember 4 different scripts at the same time. I
think the show would have gone well if we had got to perform but I think
because we got to film certain scenes we got to relax a lot more with them, as
they were only in front of a camera we weren’t stressing like we would be if there
was an audience there.
Phone Booth directed by Joshua Billingham
This was the easiest play out of all as I had only had a
small role so I wasn’t struggling to remember lots of lines. As Josh and I have
worked together many times before it wasn’t difficult for him to establish what
role he wanted me to play and how he wanted me to play it. I was given a
general character brief and then I just took it from there and established my
own. It’s always fun to play a mouthy “hoodIem” every now and again. I was glad
I got given the part as it made it so much easier for me to focus on other
roles as well as this was one, as I was only in two scenes within the first
twenty minutes. Also I think because Josh and
I are close friends people would have thought that I would get the
biggest role, but it wasn’t about that, it was about what was best for the
piece. It was a really quick fun part for me to play and I was really happy
with the decision and how it turned out.
How does your garden grow directed by Roxanne Feurtado
This play was the one I was most looking forward to playing
as I loved my character and the whole storyline of the piece. It was just a
really funny 90’s keeping up appearances vibe which I loved. I am really glad
that I got cast as Ruth the ruthless bank adviser, she is strong and feisty but
later on in the play you see a different side to her, as she is having an
affair with a married man. I really enjoyed rehearsals for this piece as every
time we would perform or rehearse it was just always so fun and we would never
stop laughing, the amount of times we would rehearse the same scene and still
laugh every time just amazed me. The rehearsal process was really fun and because
Roxy was enthusiastic I felt enthusiastic and excited to work. I felt that she
was committed to the play and watched every single scene and was involved in
the process which made me always feel re assured.
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