Adaptations we have made to suit the performance at Durrington:
- Performance space: As the area we are using in the school is much smaller than our space, and there's going to be audience in there aswell surrounding us, we've had to change things to suit it. Seasons Of Love was also adapted as we all change to face the audience head on in a clump formation, rather than a long line facing opposite ways
- Length of songs: We cut down Light My Candle
- Costume: We decided to wear all black
- Transitions: We had to create transitions between each song such as the moving of the chairs for Santa Fe
What do you want them to understand of the performance?
- Understand the relationships and mood of scenes: In example, Take Me Or Leave Me portrays anger and break up, Light My Candle portrays flirtatiousness, the start of a romance, Santa Fe portrays the dreamy phase and Will I portrays the sadness and the state of giving up
AFTER PERFORMANCE
I feel very pleased with my performance at Durrington. All the songs went particularly well and I managed to belt the high notes that I have been struggling with in 'Take Me Or Leave Me'. I also maintained good facial expressions as most directions I stood facing had an audience there (semi circle of audience surrounding us), so I had to always be aware of my body characterisation. I think I get an adrenaline rush and risk it more when I am performing in front of people I don't know, rather than in front of everyone in class. This has given me much more confidence in believing I can polish my vocals for the song and perform this on the show day without much fear. Santa Fe I felt was a bit rocky, I think it needed more power and stronger movement.
The pupils understood the contrast of moods in each scene, however as many of them had not seen Rent before it was difficult for them to grasp the contexts. But when we explained to them all the topics in the production they then quickly linked that up to the scenes so now understood why the mood was like that.
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