after-performance reflection

Our midterm performance is over. The weeks of work, the several meetings outside of class with my group all came to a climax on Friday morning when we performed our piece. I have to say, I'm really proud of my group. I feel like we presented a well-rehearsed and polished little production that we can honestly say was completely our own work. Besides the occasional guidance from Jason, we put it together entirely on our own, from original scripts to deciding how to stage our monologues to coming up with a plan for costumes, albeit simple: black shirt and jeans. But the simple stuff can go a long way; I think our clothing choices made our performance more unified. As far as ways I could have improved my individual performance, I think I was holding back a little bit. There's no reasonable explanation for it, but looking back, I feel like I could have let myself go even more. My monologue was a pretty emotional piece (it was about my grandmother passing away) and I should have really taken my time with it. Let words sink in. And apparently, or so I've heard, we could have made our pieces a lot longer. It's kind of frustrating that I misunderstood the directions because there were other things I had wanted to say, but I limited myself because of time constraints that didn't actually exist! Oh well. I think I did good work, but of course the monologue could have been improved.