Theatre for Children (18) (Practice performance)

Today we performed our piece to the Year Nine's as a practice run. We found this run quite difficult as our audience in this run was over double the age of the audience we were performing to later. However, thankfully the Year Nine's understood this and responded to the piece as if they were four or five years old. Our transitions were smooth and our characters were very exaggerated as we knew that we were going to have to captivate very young children's attention. Unfortunately, there were a few moments where some lines were forgotten and not covered up quickly enough. Our feedback from the Year Nine's was that they loved "The Race" scene and the journeys to the storehouses and cellar. This was because they loved the exaggerated facial expressions (e.g. the cross-eyed expressions).