Final Thoughts.

Twas the night before the performance and all through the house… Kate was stressing out because her performance is double the length it’s supposed to be!!! Today has been very productive. I have purchased all my props and rehearsed all the costume changes so they are as slick as possible. I have practiced my pre-set, and am so excited to be performing one of my ultimate fantasies as part of my final performance at the University of Lincoln. I have rehearsed the monologues several times in front of the mirror trying to perfect my facial expressions and posture. The hard part has been rehearsing the old lady monologue without moving my eyes. This has particularly tricky as the monologue is reliant on iconic facial expression and not being able to move my eyes tends to make my recital sound stilted. I am feeling prepared… or I was until I did a full timed dress rehearsal and found the piece finished on 21mins. It is a shame to cut some of it, but I’am defiantly getting rid of all speaking in the second set up and just making it a physical/mime piece to music (with the exception of the Dominoes song.) I feel the second set up becomes much clearer and much funnier without the dialogue. The dialogue sometimes felt awkward when rehearsing. I am also scrapping the opening section of the princess monologue, when the toddler was talking to the parents. Although this part of the speech is a nice way to set the scene and begin the piece, it is not necessary and the main focus of the opening monologue should be the notion of seeing your own image and not recognising it as your own. The notion of self critiquing which is apparent in every stage of a girl’s growing up. Even at the very beginning. Iam very excited to show and share the work I have done during the past weeks. It has been a very rewarding experience and I have loved creating, writing, directing and performing my own work. I just really hope the people understand the slightly dark/risqué humour of mine. I just need to tweak a few aspects of the tech tomorrow, hopefully get to do a full run and then its show time.

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