Shoreham Shakespeare Festival - When performing at the Shakespeare festival it was an extremely different performing experience to any other performance I have been a part of. This is because there was no set audience, we were showcasing our monologes to a passing audience. I found this challenging as when we initially start we had to grab the audiences attention straight away, otherwise everyone would just walk past. The first time we performed these we had a podium that we had to stand on, this was easier because we were a little higher than everyone else we were more easily seen. However the second time we did this we had to do it in the middle of a crowd, this was harder because the audience didn't expect it and it was more of a challenge to get their attention. As well as this I needed to project my voice more, because we were outside as well as the audience being scattered around rather than in one set space. Due to the audience being scattered around I also had to make sure that I was directing my speech to different locations to make sure that everyone around me was engaged.
Brighton Open Air Theatre - Performing at Brighton open air theatre was a completely different experience to performing at the Shakespeare festival, this is mainly because at this venue we had a set audience that were prepared to watch a play, compared to a passing audience who were not expecting to witness any performances. However I still found this a different challenge as some of the audience was more higher up and therefore it was important to project our voices out to the sides and up ot the top, this was more of a challenge particulary in this theatre compared to an indoor theatre. This is because it is easiy for the sound of voice to get lost within the breeze and passing pedestrians, dogs etc. As well as this we had to change some of the blocking when we got to the venue as we overestimated the size of the trenches and other things that we hadn't thought of.
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