Personally I think the final performance was a success. I feel that I and Charlie operated the lighting, sound and projections in a steady pace. After the dress run, I found that I was a little too hasty with some of the lighting cues, causing the actors to be in light on stage when they were still getting into positions. To solve this I waited for a couple more seconds or I would look to see if the actors that were helping with getting set on and off were back in the wings and gave me the thumbs up.

After the dress run I feel that the actors seemed a little more relaxed with regards to the scene changes. Once we had completed the dress run, the actors then did a quick scene to scene taking pieces of furniture on and off. I think that they became a lot more familiar with the order of the scenes and what items needed to be taken on and when. To help I stuck on the walls off stage, scene orders and what needed to go on and off on what side. By doing this I think it gave the actors that little reassurance that they needed while being back stage and left to their own devices during the show.

When the performance was finished a couple of member of the company went out to the audience to fundraise for Amnesty international. While this was undergo quite a few members of the audience asked questions and spoke the team within the company. Asking question about our inspiration and talking about their opinions. I personally asked my housemates that came to watch the show, what they thought of it. I asked questions like, ‘Do you think the characters within the play were represented well?’ and ‘Could you follow the events in the play easily?’ The feedback was actually very positive, with them explaining the story to myself and explaining the characters and their roles within the piece.

A week after our performance the group had a post-show discussion called a viva voce. Here we had chance to talk about our influences, lighting choice and acting style. For this the group meet the night before in the university library and discussed who contributed what to the production. We talked about Amnesty and why we wanted to include them in our process.

We went back over the roots of our ideas back to January, when we were throwing around ideas and interests of each group member. Again we went back to basics and stripped the production down to all it elements, confirming who contributed what to the process. As a group we help others to talk about what they did, if someone was struggling to explain and idea or aspect, someone else would jump in and help the viva flow.

Over all, I have thoroughly enjoyed this experience, working with this group and seeing our ideas come to life on the stage. I think if we were to carry on with Breaking Stories Theatre Company, we could successfully tour The Bogus Woman. Moving forward, I think that we could have created new productions, scripted and devised, keeping in tone with current issues in the news and maybe issues that are not in the light of the media, giving them a chance to be understood.