Nation

Evaluation 

Overall I think the performance went really well and smoothly on the night. When we had first arrived at Stanley halls we had to adapt to the space in literally a few hours whilst going through our first and only dress rehearsal, I think everyone was at least a bit nervous before performing in front of the audience as it was our final piece of year 11 and a few mistakes were made in the dress rehearsal, but personally I think the performance went really well as when mistakes were made we carried on going without losing character.In conclusion I think this was a extremely effective piece and a fantastic performance. 

Nation


The first chapter involves a subplot in which the Gentlemen of Last Resort, a secret society serving the crown, urgently set out for Port Mercia in the Great Southern Pelagic Ocean to seek the next man in the British line of succession: Henry Fanshaw, the unsuspecting governor of England's oceanic territories. Fanshaw's 13-year-old daughter, Ermintrude, is one of the novel's two protaginist. The other protagonist, Mau, is an aboriginal native of the Nation who is first depicted alone at neighbouring Boys' Island, where he has hand-built a canoe to complete his initiation from boyhood into manhood. Ermintrude, meanwhile, is leisurely travelling aboard British a schooner, the Sweet Judy, led by a ruthless Cox, are subdued and set adrift at sea.

Starting the play 

Before we got given our characters and started rehearsing the play we had a couple of classes to read through the script and get to grips with the play, when I first read through the script it was a little confusing at first, with all the characters and the storyline etc, but after a while I soon understood the play and how effective the piece was, so overall I was really excited about this piece as it was really different than the other performances I have done before. it is filled with great characters with different personalities, even if they are not a 'big' part for example I was really excited when I got given the role as a raider because I got to explore using different acting techniques to portray my character, using my body language, facial expressions, projection at full capacity at all times. After we read through the script we had to go in groups of 3-5 in which we got given one scene so we could give our own ideas about the scene to the class, which proved to be really effective as we used a lot of those ideas in the performance, making it more of a class effort.

Stanley Halls 

The stage 

Some information about Terry Pratchett

Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, Kt, OBE (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of about 40 volumes. Pratchett's first novel, The carpet people, was published in 1971, and since his first Discworld novel, The colour of magic, was published in 1983, he wrote two books a year on average. His 2011 Discworld novel Snuff was at the time of its release the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-audience novel since records began in the UK, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days

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