Evaluation

Personally I believe that 12bma's performance of Hedda Gabbler was very successful for the short space of time that we had to rehearse. I played Hedda Gabbler in the final act and I think in the performance I was very successful in the suicide section at the very end because I felt an emotional connection between my character and the gun. I felt that this section of the piece was stronger in performance than it was in rehersal as I incorporate all of the interesting experiments I did with the scene into one which felt honest and real .

Something I needed to improve on was my awareness of the audiences positioning because at one point in my scene when Thea enters and I say "what's happend?" I felt as though my line was lost because of the action I was trying to do to put thes into a seat made it so that my back was to the audience. I think if I had targeted this problem in rehersals and found a more effective way of getting Thea to a chair this scene may have looked more flowing and free. 

In my part with Hector (Judge Brack) half way through our lines were said in a different order but I believe that we recovered with this well and because for us everything was running on the actions of each character then it still worked because we were able to act through it while still making it understandable. Also, I took notes from the dress run to react more to judge Brack when he invades my space and I took this into consideration and In the performance I more confidently grimaced and reacted to him touching me. 

Tesman and Hedda's part at the beginning of my section was paticularly successful because our lines were near perfect and I seemed to be getting more pace and speed and emotion as it went on because I was truly reacting to Tesman.

My performance was so different to the way that we rehearsed it because I feel sometimes in rehearsal I was slightly better in some rehearsals however, for some parts of my performance I believe it was the best time I've done it for example the last part of the suicide  really connected with me.

The Stanislavski techniques that we had worked on during the rehersal process really helped to allow my character to feel real and genuine. The circles of attention technique was so important for me during this play because my outer was to show composure and keep my upper class status where as my inner was to end life (both mine and the babies)