Evaluation

The performance went very well and we did not run into any technical issues besides the one I will discuss later on in this evaluation. I was able to complete my path during the sequence without any obstacles or need to alter my path in any way and the audience were still able to freely move through our piece on to the next and back, as well as viewing our piece more closely. I also felt that the fact that are piece looped flowed very well with the message that the piece was trying to communicate with its audience and I feel that there were points in the loops that it strongly resonated with both Louis and me. The recording of Louis' voice was playing from his phone which I held as I went around in my sequence. This actually worked EXTREMELY well as this resulted in the voice appearing far more personal than this omniscient voice that the speaker would have presented. This strengthened the audience's relatability to the piece and their understanding of the voice of Anxiety.

The main and only negative (which I feel turned out to become a positive) was that the speaker that we had initially planned to use to play Louis' voice stopped working and as a result on such short notice we were forced to use Louis' phone which I had to hold the whole time that I completed my sequence. I was initially irritated by this and felt that it reduced the quality of our piece and made it appear less refined and more rushed. However despite this the changes actually created a far more personal atmosphere within the piece as the voice felt more centred to the victim instead of everywhere around it. While taking all of this into account, I still felt that at times the recording was hard to hear during some of the loops due to the fact that Gloria's piece was fairly loud but this would not have been an issue if we had used the speaker.

I noticed that the majority of the audience were smiling or had a very "happy-curious" facial expression when they first began watching our piece. I couldn't clearly see their reactions or faces during the piece as I was moving in a circle, however by the end their faces gave of the appearance that they were in deep thought, either regarding what the piece was about or its message. A notable amount of the audience members even stayed to watch the piece a second or some even a third time. There was an audience member that stayed within our space watching us indefinitely, although I think that this was Louis' mom. I am confident that the majority of our audience grasped the piece's subject and its concept and I am confident that a smaller amount grasped the message of the piece and could even relate it to themselves easily.

I feel that the piece has further diversified and expanded my current knowledge on methods of performing and how different methods and mediums can be incorporated to together to not only enhance and strengthen the performance itself, but to better convey the message and themes of the performance to the actor and audience alike. This work has also given me more of an understanding regarding not only the mind and Anxiety in general, but also understanding those to elements within my own life and the role it plays in my own life as well as others. Funnily enough, despite the way we presented it, as a result of my research I have now come to the realization that Anxiety is not ENTIRELY negative as in actual a fact it helps to prepare us and aids us in anticipating not only possible danger or obstacles but things that are important to us in our lives such as a job interview.