Evaluation

The final performances went very well and though the audience number was smaller than the other common ground shows but I feel the smaller audience was better for this kind of performance  because the intimacy and individual attention we could give to our audience was something we couldn't do in our other shows.

I think we could have spent more time rehearsing and devising this piece to have made it stronger and bring more to it. Though it evoked emotion and told the story we intended to, I feel that it wasn't as physical as I had hoped. I thought, at the beginning of devising it, we would have more ensemble pieces and dynamic movement sections that would really work your bodies and make you sweat but I felt that we could have worked harder on it. The rehearsals themselves could have been so much more productive if we had all focused but unfortunately, focus wasn't there. In the end, not much was affected and we were all confident in the performance but we could have done more had we just been cooperative in the first place.

On the whole, I think we did justice to those who went through world war one and we explored the different kinds of people and showed not only the soldier's views but showed the audience other sides as well. The typical images that came into my head when somewone says World War 1 are soldiers and battlefronts. But after this piece, I also think of what happened to those left behind and the countries that had to pick up the pieces of a broken society.